Slide Options

The Options Inspector lets you change settings of selected slides in the Storyboard/Timeline. The Inspector is context sensitive, only those settings applicable to the selected items are shown. You can make changes to multiple slides at once by selecting several slides in the Storyboard/Timeline before adjusting settings in the Slides Options Inspector.

The Slides Options Inspector opens automatically when you double-click a slide in the Storyboard/Timeline.

Animation

Enabling animation will apply a pan & zoom effect (also known as Ken Burns effect) to all layers (images, movies, or titles) of a slide. Animation can be turned on with the Enabled checkbox in the Slide options, or menu commands available in the Slideshow > Animation menu and various context menus. The Stage will then display the selected slide twice: the start position of the animation on the left side, and the finish position of the animation on the right side. FotoMagico will render the motion between those two positions in real- time.

Duration

The duration determines how long the animation of a slide takes. If the Continue type is set to After Duration, then it also determines how long the slide is shown before the slideshow advances to the next slide.

Drag the duration slider from 0s to 60s. You can also enter a duration longer than 60s by typing the value into the text field next to the slider.

The image duration cannot be shorter than the transition duration of the preceding slide. If you need a shorter image duration for a given slide, you need to decrease the amount of time for the transition of the preceding slide.

If you apply a very short duration for a given slide, chances are the succeeding slide won't get preloaded quickly enough. In this case, the slideshow will advance to the next slide as soon as the media files of this slide have been loaded into video memory. The amount of time that is necessary to preload the media files can vary, depending on the speed of your computer.

Continue

The Continue type determines how and when the slideshow advances to the next slide. There are several options:

When selected, these options also display in the header of the Storyboard/Timeline above each slide as the duration time, Click or Marker

If you choose continue At Audio Marker, make sure the audio item contains enough audio markers, or your slideshow might get stuck. Read more about audio markers in Adjusting Timing in the Timeline.

Notes

Use the text field to enter teleprompter notes for the selected slide. These notes will be displayed in the teleprompter or on the iPhone remote app during a live presentation.
For more information, see Using the Teleprompter.

Using teleprompter notes helps you to remember your live narration during the slideshow.

You can also use the notes field to enter notes or text to yourself about the slides during authoring. For example, 'replace this image with an updated photo.'