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2 TABLE OF CONTENTS In this tutorial, you will learn the following: I. Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker... Pg. 3 II. Activating this App... Pg. 4 III.Getting Started... Pg. 5 i. The Main Interface... Pg. 5 ii. File Adding & Deleting... Pg. 6 iii. Audio Recording... Pg. 7 IV. Editing... Pg. 8 i. Picture Editing... Pg. 8 ii. Audio Editing... Pg. 10 iii. Project Editing... Pg. 11 V. Video & DVD Publishing... Pg. 15 i. Video Publishing... Pg. 15 ii. DVD Publishing... Pg. 17 VI. Technical Support... Pg. 21 2

I. VOILABITS PHOTOSLIDESHOWMAKER As one of the most cutting-edge software, Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker not only creates homemade DVDs, but also provides its users with the liberty of adding

3 I. VOILABITS PHOTOSLIDESHOWMAKER As one of the most cutting-edge software, Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker not only creates homemade DVDs, but also provides its users with the liberty of adding thoroughly customizable menus (playlists) to those DVDs bearing the intent to have a more organized and professional appearance. This app is smart, comprehensive, and fairly easy and straightforward to use; no distractions like ridiculously complicated maneuvers or unnecessary ornaments exist in it whatsoever, so you can totally focus on your projects. Being aided by Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker, you can totally kiss goodbye to those mediocre amateur works and make your homemade DVDs look nothing but astonishing and professional. Figure 1: Main Interface 3

II. ACTIVATING THIS APP Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker is available on our official website at http://www.voilabits.com/ photo-slideshow-maker-mac.html.

the installation is completed. You then need to relocate the icon to desktop or Applications folder. Activating Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker is a fairly easy task.

4 II. ACTIVATING THIS APP Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker is available on our official website at photo-slideshow-maker-mac.html. Once you have it downloaded to your computer, please double-click the DMG file to initiate the installation, and a window with this app s icon will appear on the screen after you do so, indicating the installation is completed. You then need to relocate the icon to desktop or Applications folder. Activating Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker is a fairly easy task. You just need to launch the app first, tap on the Help on the menu bar, and select the Register Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker from the list. Once the registration window shows on the screen, you have to copy-n-paste your registration code into the Key Code box, and then click Register button to confirm everything. Figure 2: Registration 4

III. GETTING STARTED i. The Main Interface Figure 3: Main Interface 1. Lists - Lists of sources that you can make slideshows out of. 2. Media Manager - A window displays all contents in one category.

5 III. GETTING STARTED i. The Main Interface Figure 3: Main Interface 1. Lists - Lists of sources that you can make slideshows out of. 2. Media Manager - A window displays all contents in one category. 3. Preview - A screen on which you can view all the photos, audio, transitions, and slideshows created before publishing. 4. Add Lists - Create customized lists that store your media files. 5. Record - Record external sound using built-in devices. 6. Photo & Audio Tracks - Tracks where all of the photos and audios added in a slideshow to be respectively exhibited, edited, or adjusted. 5

6 7. Slideshow Tablet - A tablet of one individual slideshow. 8. Video Publisher - Converts the current projects into videos in various formats. 9. DVD Publisher - Burns the current project to a DVD. 10.Toolbar - A collection of buttons that control various of this app. a. Add a color slide - Add a slide in pure color to the current slideshow. b. Timeline / Scene - Choose to view the project in different modes. c. & Zoom In & Zoom Out - Help you to customize the timeline basing on your personal preferences. 11. Thumbnail Exhibition - A collection of thumbnails of images added to this app. 12. Audio Exhibition - The place where you can edit all audio files imported. 13. Transition Effect - The special effect between two individual slides. 14. Timeline - The tool displays a list of events in chronological order, helping you to determine the appearance and disappearance time of a photo, an audio file, or a transition effect. ii. File Adding & Deleting Adding: 1. Add pictures from iphoto: To do that, please expand the iphoto tab, and in various lists you can see all the pictures that app has in Media Manager. You then need to drag-n-drop the ones you need to the photo track. 2. Add music from itunes: To do that, please expand the itunes tab, and in different lists you can find all the audio files that app has in the Media Manager. You then need to drag-n-drop the ones you need to the audio track. 6

3. Add files from other sources: If you want use photos or audios from neither iphoto nor itunes, please expand the My Collection tab in which you then can find two already-made lists - My Pictures &

7 3. Add files from other sources: If you want use photos or audios from neither iphoto nor itunes, please expand the My Collection tab in which you then can find two already-made lists - My Pictures & My Music. You then can click the Add button in the Media Manager or simply use the drag-ndrop combo to add all of your files to them accordingly. After that you can move them to the photo track and audio tracks respectively. Tip: You also can click the cross to create your personal lists and add all of your files there. Deleting: To delete imported files, you just need highlight them in the Media Manager, and then hit the delete on your keyboard to complete the removal. In some cases, you might want to take out an entire selfmade list, and you can do that just by clicking the cross next to that very list. Note: Only files from sources other than iphoto, itunes, and the app itself could be removed. iii. Audio Recording When making documentaries or photo diaries to have your memories recorded, you might want to add necessary aside to them, and our Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker can help you with that. 1. Click the to activate the recording control panel. 2. Click to start recording, and then you speak directly to your audio input device. 3. When you finished that, click to stop recording. 4. Click OK to add the recording to My Collection. Figure 4: Recording Control Panel 7

8 IV. EDITING i. Picture Editing When you have moved the pictures to the Thumbnail Exhibition and want to edit one of them, please highlight and then double click on it to activate the picture editing control. It comes with four practical features - texts, crop, effects, and rotate. 1. Texts Figure 5: Texts a. Click to activate the texts editing panel. b. Tab on, click at the spot on the picture where you want to add text, and then type it. c. Change the font, color, size, and style for the texts. d. You also can reposition any added text just by dragging it around, change its contents by double clicking on it and making the changes, and delete it by clicking the. e. Click OK to save the changes. 8

9 2. Crop Figure 6: Crop a. Click to activate the cropping control panel. b. Use your mouse or trackpad to draw out the cropping area. c. Click the OK to confirm the changes. 3. Effects Figure 7: Effects 9

a. Click to active the effects control panel. b. Pick the effect that you want to apply on the given picture by clicking it. c. Tap OK to confirm the changes. 4. Rotate Figure 8: Rotate a.

10 a. Click to active the effects control panel. b. Pick the effect that you want to apply on the given picture by clicking it. c. Tap OK to confirm the changes. 4. Rotate Figure 8: Rotate a. Rotate the picture 90 counterclockwise. b. Rotate the picture 90 clockwise. c. Flip the picture horizontally. d. Flip the picture vertically. e. If you want to cancel the changes made, please click the Reset. When you have finished the settings, please click the OK to confirm the changes. ii. Audio Editing When you have moved the audios to the Audio Exhibition and want to edit one of them, please highlight and then double click on it to activate the music editing control. It comes with two practical features - trimming and fade-in & fade-out effects. 10

11 Figure 9: Audio Editing a. Trimming - Repositioning both left and right pointer of the slider to get a particular piece of an audio file. If you want to reset the changes, please click under the slider. b. Fade-In & Fade-Out Effects - To use this feature, you need to check the box of Fade-In & Fade-Out and adjust the duration of each one of them respectively. iii. Project Editing Once you have all the materials added to Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker, you need to properly edit that project so that the slideshows would be exactly what you like them to be. In this section, you will learn how to do that perfectly. 1. Placement Sometimes you may need to reposition certain images and audios added to the tracks, please make sure it is in scenes mode, and select one of them at a time and then drag it to the spot where you want it to be. 2. Photo & Audio Editing At this point, if you find some of your added photos or audios need to be edited, please do it in the way suggested in the Photo Editing section and Audio Editing section. 11

To alter the duration of an added photo, in the scenes mode you can adjust the timer underneath that photo s thumbnail; in the timeline mode then you can do that by dragging that finishing line at

12 To alter the duration of an added photo, in the scenes mode you can adjust the timer underneath that photo s thumbnail; in the timeline mode then you can do that by dragging that finishing line at the end of that very slide. If you need to do the same to an added audio file, please make sure the tracks are in the timeline mode, and then drag that file s starting and finishing line to make the adjustments (Please keep it in mind that the duration of any given audio file can only be no longer than that file s actual maximum length). Figure 10. Duration Alteration in Scenes Mode Figure 11. Duration Alteration in Timeline Mode 3. Transitions To have transitions between different pictures, please expand the Effects tab and choose the sublist Transitions, and all the transitions available in this app would be displayed on the Media Manager. After that, you need to pick the one you like and drag it to the spot where you want it to be. If you want to change the duration of an added transition, in the scenes mode you can just reset the timer beneath that transition s thumbnail, or in the timeline mode drag the finishing line and the line before it. 12

all the pictures in it would pop out, in which you then can pick a different one to be the new thumbnail cover.

13 Figure 12. Transition Duration Alteration in Scenes Mode Figure 13. Transition Duration Alteration in Timeline Mode 4. Change Slideshow s Thumbnail Cover & Name If you think a slideshow s default thumbnail cover needs to be changed, you can just double click the picture on that slideshow s tablet and a window with all the pictures in it would pop out, in which you then can pick a different one to be the new thumbnail cover. Please remember that the thumbnail of each slideshow would appear on the DVD menu if you choose to copy your work to a DVD. If you feel like giving a new name to a slideshow, you can double click that very slideshow s name on the tablet ad then type in the new one. 5. Preview Before getting a slideshow published, you might want to preview it to figure out whether there are problems about the project in terms of various aspects like synchronization. To do that, please move the Time Marker on the Timeline to the place where you want it to start, and then click the Play. 13

14 6. Multiple Slideshows In every project, Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker automatically creates one slideshow for you by default, but you still can make some more yourself. To do that, you just need to click the next to the slideshow s tablet, and a new one would be created. If you, however, want to take out a slideshow, you just need to click the cross on that very slideshow s tablet, and it would be gone. 7. Save An Unfinished Project In some cases, you might be unable to finish editing a project once because there are too much to work on, and therefore want to save it and pick it up from where you left. In Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker you can totally save an incomplete project by clicking the File tab on the menubar and choosing Save from the list. To open an existed project, you first need to double click the app s icon and a window would show up. In that window, please click Open An Existed Project and find that project you want to resume editing upon. In some cases, the existed project might also appear in the Recent Projects section, and you can open it by double clicking it. 14

15 V. VIDEO & DVD PUBLISHING Once the slideshow is properly edited, you then need to export it. In Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker, there are two options available - export slideshows as videos or burn them to a DVD. i. Video Publishing If you want to make a video, please click the one underneath would show up., and then the corresponding settings panel like Figure 14: Video Settings a. Choose An Output Format: You first need to highlight those items that you want to convert first, and then go to Output Format tab where appears a list from which you can pick a given format that you want. 15

16 b. Specifics Settings: Output Format: By clicking on this tab, you can get it activated that the list from which you pick output format. Video Quality: It can quite quickly and conveniently help you set a video quality standard for files generated without going through all the specifics. Video Codec: Generally, it has been pre-set by the developers who thoroughly and seriously considered users needs; thus it works pretty well in terms of both quality and speed. Video Resolution: It specifically relates to the output video s resolution. It is not quite advisable to set it to a exceedingly high standard unless you truly have to for some reasons, since the files generated can be ridiculously huge and the converting process can be more time-consuming. Video Bitrate: Video bitrate specifies the amount of information stored in the video. The higher bitrate you choose, the clearer output videos would be. This very setting normally depends on selected resolution, and it would be better to leave it auto. If you must need to make videos generated clearer, you can always try to increase the figure. Video Frame Rate: The framerate determines how fast video frame refreshes. For videos of lots of intense moving actions, you probably need a higher framerate to combat jerkiness. The default value suffices in most cases. Audio Quality: It can quite quickly and conveniently help you set an audio quality standard for files generated without going through all the specifics. Audio Codec: Generally, the default setting for each format has been set by the program. In most cases, the pre-set codec works very well in terms of both quality and speed. 16

17 Audio Bitrate: The audio bitrate determines the amount of information stored in an audio file. A higher bitrate considerably contributes to a better audio quality; yet, the file s size, on the other hand, usually tends to get bigger accordingly. Audio Sample Rate: The audio sample rate determines the resolution of audio files. The higher sampling rate is, the clearer audio file would be. However, like what was mentioned above, its size increases accordingly as well. Audio Channel: You can use either 1 (mono) or 2 (Stereo) effect. The latter one is pre-set. c. Set Up the Directory The Export to tab allows you to choose the place to which the videos created to be exported. Tap on it and you can make the change in the new window pops out. d. Start the Creation When you are done with setting the specifics and output directory, please click to start video creation. Click to abort the process if you feel like editing the slideshows some more. ii. DVD Publishing a. Make Your DVD Menu Shows with menus always seem professional and well organized, enabling spectators to find what they want to view quickly and accurately. Voilabits PhotoSlideshowMaker presents you with a fine chance to make one of that of your own. 17

18 Choose a Default Template 1. Once you have everything set, please click first and then the on the right upper corner in the new window pops out. 2. Select a proper aspect ratio for the menu of output DVD. Both 4:3 and 16:9 are available in this app. Note: Please choose the aspect ratio amenable to its counterpart of the television or computer, otherwise there would be black bars. 3. Choose a template from the list. Tip: If the number of imported videos exceeds the vacant spots of the chosen template, those extra ones will be displayed on the next page. To browse different pages, please click the arrows on the left lower corner. Customize Chosen Template (optional) 1. Click on the right upper corner. 2. To have a different background picture, you need to pick Background from the drop-down list underneath that Elements tab, and then pick one from the column beneath. 3. If you find the preset frames do not agree with the background and seek to use different frames, just pick Frames from the drop-down list underneath that Elements tab, and then pick one from the column beneath. 4. If you wish more clips to be displayed on one page of the menu, please click to move the very first video on the next page to this one, and then you can relocate it to right spot (Please keep it in mind that the number of videos displayed on one page can only be as big as ten). 5. To apply a different set of buttons, you need to pick Buttons from the drop-down list underneath that Elements tab, and then choose the one from the column beneath. 18

19 6. You are also able to relocate the videos and buttons by dragging them to the places where you want them to be. 7. If you deem a given menu page overstocked with videos, you can remove some of them from that page by click delete on the keyboard, and those would be relocated to the next page. 8. The titles of menus and loaded clips are rewritable. Double-click one and a window will show up right underneath it in which you can pick a different color and font. If you want the color and font you fixed on one title applied to every one of them on the current page, you can click the Apply to all to see that accomplished. 9. Audio files also can be added to this app and used as background music. Just click the folder abuts the Background Music tab and pick one for the presented page. b. DVD Settings At this point, you are very close to completing the entire task; a few more clicks and you will be good to go. In this section, you will learn how to set detailed information for your DVDs. Figure 15: DVD Settings 19

20 1. Choose the Output File In this settings window, you can choose whether to export the project to a DVD, a folder, or just as an ISO file. 2. Set the Information In the middle section, you need to set the information for the output file. If you choose the DVD Disc, you need to set the name and to which DVD it should be burnt (assuming you have multiple optical disc drives); if you want to export the content to a folder, you just need to specify the directory; if a ISO file is what you want this app to export, you then should pick a name and specify the directory for that file. 3. Other Settings To make the output file properly work on your device, you also need to pick out the DVD language, TV standard, aspect ratio, audio codec, and burn speed in the final section. Note: Please choose a TV standard comply with that of the country or territory in which the DVD will be play, otherwise, it would not work. 4. Start DVD Creation When you have completed all steps mentioned above, please click the DVD burning. to start the 20

21 IV. TECHNICAL SUPPORT Contact Us Any time you need help with using Voilabits products, please contact our support team at Our customer service staff will reply your with one business day. 21

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