Fotomagico manual

Record narration directly in FotoMagico while your slideshow is playing. Choose from a variety of styles in the Animation Assistant to batch adjust the animation of images, movies, or titles in multiple selected slides at once. Fotomagic now have quick access to the most commonly needed formatting controls directly in the Title Options in the sidebar.

For more information, see Animation Assistant. Introducing the User Interface. Precisely control the volume of audio over time. Adjusting Timing in the Timeline. New in FotoMagico 5. Creating a Standalone Player. Use envelopes to make parts of music more quiet while you intend to speak, or increase volume when you want to enhance the mood.

Without render-time you can instantly play your slideshow in full resolution. This takes away any stress associated with last-minutes changes and gives you a great real-time experience. Snippets are add-ons for FotoMagico. The subscription contains all former and upcoming snippets. There are titles, frames, music, story snippets which enriches FotoMagico's functions and assets.

Apply high quality effects like color correction, sepia, vignette or black and white to give your photos the little extra. Adjust the images to match colors and to give your slideshow a modern look. Simply work with videos in the same way as still photos. Insert music from you music library or download the royalty-free music snippets.

Improve your slideshow by synchronising visual and audio transitions. Setting transitions at the right time helps to support your story emotionally. Audio Markers help to cut on the beat of the music. The Audio Marker Assistant even detects our music tracks and adds markers according to the beat. Download additional music snippets for free and save hours hunting for the right tune.

The included music snippets cover all kinds of moods. Every track comes pre-configured with Audio Markers to speed up your visual transitions to the beat of the music. If you use e. The table below lists each transition type and how it works with image and audio.

Type - Choose from a list of several transitions. A description of each transition follows below. Duration - Set the time that the transition will take to complete.

Changing the transition duration does not change the total duration of the slideshow. TIP The transition duration cannot be longer than the image duration of the succeeding slide.

If you want a longer transition duration, you need to increase the image duration of the succeeding slide. No additional parameters. Fades out current slide and fades in to next slide. Cross dissolves from current slide to next slide. Creates a wipe effect between current and next slide. Circular Wipe Creates a round wipe effect between current and next slide.

Angular Wipe Creates a clock-like wipe effect between current and next slide. There is one additional parameter: direction, which can be left counter clockwise or right clockwise.

Slide Slides the next slide over the current one. You can choose the direction of the slide effect in 90 increments up, down, right, left. Push The next slide pushes the current slide out of sight. The 3D option first pushes the image away before moving it over. Twirl Creates an effect similar to flushing the current slide down the toilet. Zoom Zooms from current slide to the next slide. Parameters are zoom factor 2xx and zoom direction, which can be in or out.

Aperture Creates the camera-typical lens aperture. Flip 3D effect that flips over current image to reveal next image on the backside. Cube The images of the current and next slides are displayed on the faces of a cube.

The transition rotates the cube, so that the current slide is moved out of sight, while the next slide is moved into sight. Shuffle Similar to shuffling a deck of cards. Topple Similar to flipping a rolodex card. Images Options File: When a single slide is selected, the file name of the image will be displayed here.

TIP When you replace an image in a slide, you will probably have to adjust the position and zoom factors for the new image. Color: Use this feature to apply non-destructive color correction to the images of selected slides.

Color correction can be used to modify the color tint, saturation, and lightness gamma of an image. In the popup menu you can select from two different user interfaces: color wheel or color sliders. If you have multiple slides selected, the Stage does not display an image, so the effects are only visible in the Storyboard. If you have several images of matching color tint, but a few stick out with a different tint, you can select these images and adjust their tint to match the other images.

Color correction is only available in FotoMagico Pro. The Stage Area now displays the currently selected slide twice - the start position on the left side, and the finish position on the right side.

Click on the left image, then zoom, rotate, and drag it until the start position looks right to you. Repeat the same for the finish position on the right side of the Stage Area. During playback the image will be smoothly animated from the start to the finish position. TIP To preview the animation press the space bar key.

Fine-tuning Timing The animation bars in the Image Options and Title Options provide fine control over animation timing. Drag the blue and white triangles to set a initial delay, ease in, ease out, and final delay of the animation. The small popup to the right provides a few presets to get you started. By default the image is animated at constant speed:. The bar represents the total time for which a slide is visible.

The shaded yellow area on the left represents the incoming transition, i. The shaded yellow area on the right represents the outgoing transition or time the transition to the next slide is going on. It is important to keep in mind that while a transition is in progress, an image may only be partially visible. Let's look at an example to make this concept more obvious:. The image above shows a scenario where animation starts right after the incoming transition has ended.

It then eases in, i. After a while, it eases out again and finishes right before the outgoing transition starts. To control the exact timing of the animation, simply drag the blue and white triangles below the bar. The left blue triangle controls the exact point in time when the animation begins. The white triangles control easing in and out, while the right blue triangle determines when the animation ends. Example 1. Animation will continue at constant speed until the end of the slide duration.

Example 2. The motion will ease out towards the finish position and briefly pause before advancing to the next slide. Animating Titles Titles can be animated just like images.

However, there is one additional feature available for titles, which is not present for images: You can control title opacity over time. To control opacity, draw the blue and white triangle of the Opacity Bar in the Title Options. The example above has the following effect: Shortly after the slide has become completely visible, the title will fade in.

It will stay visible for the rest of the slide duration. TIP Please note the red area in the Animation bar: It represents the sections where a title is completely invisible. You may want to restrict the animation to that part of the slide duration where the title is visible. To achieve this simply drag the blue triangles inwards, so that animation doesn't overlap with any red areas.

Audio Options If you select multiple audio items in the Storyboard, any changes you make will be applied to all of them. Looping Checking the Mode: Audio Loops check box will do the following: If the audio is not long enough for the slides, it will loop until the last slide is passed. This is especially useful for interactive presentations when you don't know how long it will take to present a sequence of slides.

Volume Adjust the volume slider beneath a selected audio item. It lets you adjust audio items' volumes relative to each other and works much like Sound Check in iTunes, but gives you control over the amount of relative volume. Audio Editor Use the editor to preview your audio item.

Click the M Button to set an audio marker at the current position in the song. Markers Audio markers are used to synchronize slide transitions with the beat of the music. Using audio markers requires the following steps: Play the audio in the editor. This adds a new audio marker.

The marker is visible as a small tick mark below the bar in the player LCD display. It is also listed numerically in the Markers table. Use the - button to remove a selected audio marker in the table. Once you are done setting all your audio markers drag the audio editor playhead to the beginning and play again to review the markers. The M button will flash in red when an audio marker is passed. If an audio marker is not set correctly, you can adjust its position by editing its time code in the table.

Double click a line in the table to edit the time code. Once you are satisfied with the audio markers, go to the Slide Options and set the continue type of the slides above the audio item to Continue at Audio Marker.

TIP With audio markers you can synchronize slide transitions with the beat of your music. If audio markers are placed fairly close together, exact timing cannot be guaranteed, however. FotoMagico needs to load up coming image files and titles before it can proceed to the next slide. If an audio marker was missed in the process, the transition to the next slide will occur when the next audio marker is passed.

This limitation only applies to a live presentation. When exporting your slideshow to a QuickTime movie, the exact timing is always respected. Title Options Each slide can have one title. A title can have multiple fonts, styles, colors, paragraph alignments, etc. You can modify text attributes using the standard Mac OS X font panel or the menu command available in the Format menu. You may also paste graphics into a title. To edit a title, double click it in the Stage. The title frame will switch from a thin frame to a thicker frame with two resizing handles on the left and right edge.

The text is already selected so you can start typing. If you want to reflow the text, click on one of the handles to resize the width of the title's frame. Click on the alignment buttons to change the alignment of the selected text. If a title is currently being edited thick selection frame , each paragraph in a title can have a different alignment. If a title is not currently being edited thin selection frame the alignment is applied to the entire text of a title.

Use the Animation bar to control the timing of title animation. Then make the desired modifications. In the Font Panel you can use advanced typographic features like shadows, ligatures, etc The Font Panel also includes controls for changing kerning and leading. Press the shift key to go in 10x increments. You can create transparent titles by reducing the opacity in the Color Panel. Please note that this will affect the entire title. You cannot change the opacity of individual characters separately.

Notes Use the text field to enter notes for the selected slide. This may help you remember the narration for your slideshow presentation. In order to bring up the preferences pane, select Preferences from the FotoMagico menu or press Command-Semicolon. Preference settings are grouped into five different areas, each of which is represented by a tab in the preferences window: General This will present you with these options: Show Splash Screen - decide, whether or not to see FotoMagico's splash screen after launching the application Create New Document at Start up - when checked, this will create an empty document after launching the application Show Assistant When Creating New Document - will bring up an assistant that guides through the process of setting up a document Auto Expand Options Group - automatically reveals those options controls that are relevant for the currently selected object Images Sets options for the Images Panel: Image Library: iPhoto or Aperture - select your default image repository here.

Either one or the other can be selected. Image Editor - lets you choose your preferred editing application, e. Adobe Photoshop Appearance - determines how image thumbnails are being displayed in the Images Panel Display Border - will draw a border around image thumbnails Display Shadow - creates a drop shadow around image thumbnails Display Name - displays image names Background Color - allows you to choose a shade of black as background color of the Images Panel Authoring Allows you to set options that apply globally throughout the authoring process.

TIP This may crop certain areas of the image in order to fit it onto the stage and make sure that Action Safe and Title Safe areas are respected.

Zoom to Fill Stage Completely - will scale the image to cover the entire stage area as set in the Stage Size Settings. Zoom to Show Whole Image - will scale the image, if necessary, so that no area gets accidentally cropped.

TIP These settings are being used whenever you insert images in the storyboard. It doesn't keep you from manually changing any of these settings at a later stage.

Alignment Guides Display Alignment Guides - will display alignment guide lines when dragging an image Stage, Objects Color Panels - allow you to set a custom color for the alignment guide lines. Play Snap Sound - plays an audio event, if image or title box position is correctly aligned.

Playing Options that apply when presenting your slideshow. Overlays: Visualize Interactive Control - Displays overlays during live presentation when pausing, stepping forward or back, and changing volume.

Burning Allows you to choose your preferred TV standard and burning application. TIP Only applications installed on your machine will be displayed in the popup menu. For iDVD, version 5. Toast versions 6, 7 and 8 are supported. Older versions of either application will probably not show up and definitely not work.

Software Update Decide, whether and how often FotoMagico will look for updates. Check for new versions - according to whatever you set in this popup menu, FotoMagico will check Never - not at all Monthly - every month Weekly - every week Daily - every day In addition to that, you always get to Check Now when hitting the according button next to the popup menu. Slideshow Settings These settings control important basic presentation aspects of your slideshow, e.

To get to the settings sheet, select Settings from the Slideshow menu. Settings Stage Size: This popup menu allows you to conveniently match the size of the stage area to e. TIP TIP As soon as you override the predefined values by customized ones, the popup will switch to Custom to accurately reflect your choice. FotoMagico defaults new slideshows to the size of your main screen assuming that you will play your slideshows mostly on your computer. If you create a slideshow for playback on TV or a different screen, we recommend adjusting the settings prior to authoring your slideshow.

When changing the stage size all items will be resized automatically in order to preserve appearance as closely as possible. Translations of this page: Adjusting Timing in the Timeline. Use envelopes to make parts of music more quiet while you intend to speak, or increase volume when you want to enhance the mood.

Create markers manually by listening to the music and tapping to the beat, or create markers automatically by adjusting the beats per minute BPM. For more information, see Working with Snippets. Working with the Stage. Snippets provide a whole new way to create complex slideshows with pre-built reusable components.

Text placeholders are the reason why many of the snippets, that ship with FotoMagico universally, are useful to a wide range of users. For more information, see Audio Marker Assistant. If a snippet contains placeholder images, then simply replace those placeholders by dragging your own images or movies on top of these placeholders. This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these cookies, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are as essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website.