Creating a Template Slideshow
Templates are an easy way to quickly create new slideshows that don’t need a whole lot of changes. By using an existing slideshow, you can easily save the slideshow under a new filename and simply replace the images of existing slides to create a new slideshow based on the old one. For example, you can create a Wedding Template or a Senior Portrait Template, which already contains all slides, titles, and music. When you get the job to produce another wedding slideshow, just use this template and replace the existing images with the new ones.
You can replace images in the Stage, as well as in the Storyboard and Timeline view. Since the thumbnails are quite small in Timeline view, working in in the Storyboard or Stage is usually easier.
To create a template:
- Open an existing slideshow document.
- Select from the menu. The Save As dialog opens.
- Enter a new filename for your slideshow, then click Save.
- To replace an image, drag the new image from the Image Browser or Finder and drop it onto the thumbnail in the Storyboard. You can also drop the image directly onto a layer in the Stage while pressing the Option key. The image you want to replace highlights in yellow.
- You can replace the movie file of an existing movie layer in the same way.
- To replace audio, drag an audio file from the Audio Browser or the Finder onto an existing audio item in the Storyboard. When it highlights yellow, drop the file.
To make replacing in the Stage even simpler, right-click on a layer in the Stage and select
> from the context menu. Once a layer is a placeholder, pressing the Option key is no longer necessary for replacing. This should be done in the original slideshow before it was saved under a different filename.