Multiple tracks

In AquaSoft ® SlideShow at first glance you only see an image and music track on the “Timeline”. This serves to provide a better overview. At positions where you require multiple tracks, the “Chapter” object is used.

With this you can connect as many tracks as you want. In that respect, it is not predetermined which objects can contain a track. Therefore you can place images, music or texts on any track.

You will find the “Chapter” object in the “Toolbox” under “SlideShow objects”.

The “Chapter” can be inserted by double-clicking. You can, however, also drag it to the desired position on the “Timeline” or in the “Image List” with the mouse button pressed down.

Insert a few images and a “chapter” into an empty show.

The “chapter” is inserted empty. You will then have to move the desired objects into the chapter. You can do that on the “Timeline” or in the “Image List” or “Storyboard”. Click on an image and then drag it with the mouse button pressed down to the “chapter”.

If you go over the “chapter” with the mouse, the “chapter” is framed in red on the “Timeline”. Let go of the image there.

The “chapter” now contains a small “plus” icon.

This shows that the objects are to be found in this “chapter”. By clicking the “plus” icon you can open the “chapter”.

The red bar under the first image determines the starting position of the image. The image is inserted at this point.

The reference to a new track now appears under the second image. You can place as many objects as you wish on each track. In that respect, the red bar helps you to insert the objects in the correct position.

You can also insert “SlideShow objects” into a “chapter” directly from the “Toolbox”. First of all drag a “Text” object onto a new track.

You can change the positions within the “chapter” by dragging the objects with the mouse. By clicking dragging the beginning and the end of an object, the “Exposure time/Holding time” of an object can be changed.

Example:

Often we are asked how “Track/Sound” is set for only a few images. The background music should be faded out at this point, but not interrupted.

Insert a few “images” into an empty show and a “chapter”.

Then move the images into the “chapter”. In that respect, the images should all be on one track.

Now drag a “Sound” object from the “Toolbox” onto the 2nd track in the “chapter” in exactly the same way as the “Text” object was inserted into the “chapter” above.

You can add “Background music” by clicking the corresponding track in the “Timeline”. Using the “plus” icon, you can insert the track.

The track is then shown on the “Background music track” of the “Timeline”.

The “Object settings” of the “Sound” object should be displayed in the “Object settings” window. If not, select the “Sound” object on the “Timeline” by clicking it with the mouse.

Should the playback length of the sounds be too long for you, you can reduce it. The relevant settings are marked in red in the illustration below.

On the “Timeline” you will now see that the “Sound” fits in with the 5 images exactly. The “Background music” is cancelled during this period of time. If you insert yet more images behind the “chapter”, you will see how the “background music track” is continued.

“Images”, “texts” and “sounds” can be combined in a “chapter” as desired.

The “Chapter” has a “minus” icon at the top on the left if it is open. You can close it by that means if you are no longer working on this “chapter”. That increases the clarity in a substantial show.