General information > Preparations

Windows 10 with ransomware protection enabled

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Microsoft has built a so-called ransomware protection into Windows 10. When this is activated, Microsoft blocks some folders from being accessed by almost any program. By default, your own and public folders for documents, pictures, music and videos, as well as your favorites are protected. You can't unprotect these without disabling it altogether. However, you can include folders that you want to protect yourself.

The Temp directory and the application data must not be protected, since programs store data necessary for the process or user-specific data there.

If ransomware protection is active, AquaSoft SlideShow must be unlocked to access protected folders in order to function properly.

Number of pictures

If the presentation is varied and exciting, friends or family will agree that time is relative. So the number of pictures is also a completely subjective decision. The better you "write the script", the better you will know how many pictures to show.
There is no universal answer to the question of the "optimal number of images".

Before you design a presentation, ask yourself the following questions:

•Is there enough variety among the images, the videos, and the music?

•Are the images and videos of appropriate quality?

•Have I designed the presentation so that there are moments for the viewer to be excited and surprised?

With a good amount of preparation, you have already made a picture selection in which motifs are not repeated and the shots are interesting and varied.
Through the use of appropriate music you create emotions and give special moments accents.

Sorting images

In order to achieve a good result quickly and effectively, you can make some preparations in advance. It makes sense to create a directory and possibly divide it into subdirectories. In these subdirectories you can store your images, sorted according to your own criteria.

Also, if you still want to rename the images, you should do this now. If the images are inserted first and then renamed or moved, they will no longer be displayed in the project.

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Organize your images before you start creating the project. When you insert the images, they are not saved again. Only the reference to the location where the images are stored is saved. If the images are moved to another folder or renamed, they can no longer be retrieved using the reference.

File types

AquaSoft SlideShow and Stages support the following file types, among others:

Image formats

Video formats

AquaSoft image container (*.asimage)
AquaSoft JPNG (*.asjpng)
BMP images (*.bmp,*.dib*.rle)
Extended metafiles (*.emf)
Color Profile (*.icc,*.icm)
Graphics Interchange Format (*.gif)
High Efficiency Image Format images
(*.heic, *.heif)
JPEG 2000 (*.jp2)
JPEG 2000 Codestream (*.j2c,*.j2k,*.jpc)
JPEG images (*.jpg;*.jpeg)
LUT in cube format (*.cube)
Photoshop images (*.pdd;*.psd)
Portable Network Graphic images (*.png)
Portable Pixelmap images
(*.pbm,*.pgm,*.ppm,*.pxm)
RAW Images (*.cr2,*.crw,*.dcr,*.dng,*.mrw,
*.nef,*.orf,*.pef,*.raf,*.raw,*.rw2,*.srf,*.x3f)
Scalable Vector Graphics (*.svg)
Symbols (*.ico)
TIFF graphics (*.fax,*.g3f,*.g3n,*.tif;*.tiff)
Truevision images
(*.icb;*.pix,*.targa,*.tga;*.vda;*.vst)
Windows metafiles (*.wmf)
ZSoft Paintbrush images (*.pcc;*.pcx)

Animated GIF (*.gif)
Common Intermediate Format (*.cif)
Digital Video (*.dv;*.dif)
DVD-Video (*.vob)
Flash Video (*.flv)
Flic Animation (*.flc)
Matroska Media Container (*.mkv)
MPEG (*.mpg; *.mpeg)
MPEG-2 Transportstream (*.mts;*.m2ts)
MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4;*.m4v;)
OGG Theora video (*.ogv)
Quicktime (*.mov)
Transportstream (*.ts)
Video for mobile devices (*.3gp;*.3gp2)
Video for Windows (*.avi)
WebM video (*.webm)
Windows Media Video (*.wmv)

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Always insert GIF files via the Video object. If the display duration cannot be detected automatically, you may need to adjust it. If you want to display the animation longer, set None under Fade In, copy the Video object, and paste it several times until you reach the desired length. Alternatively, use the GIF in the Repeat effect.

To use Heic and Heif images, your Windows operating system requires a corresponding Heif image extension that is not installed by default.

Sound formats

Advanced Streaming Format (*.asf)
AIFF files (*.aiff)
FLAC files (*.flac)
IT/Impulse Tracker music (*.it)
MIDI files (*.mid;*.rmi)
MOD music (*.mod)
M4A files (*.m4a)
MP3 files (*.mp3)
MP2 files (*.mp2)
OGG Vorbis files (*.ogg)
S3M/Scream Tracker music (*.s3m)
WAV files (*.wav)
Windows Media Audio (*.wma;*.wmv)
XM/FastTracker music (*.xm)