• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Welcome to AquaSoft Stages
  • 1.2 Legends / icons
• 2 General notes
  • 2.1 System requirements
  • 2.2 Installation and uninstallation
  • 2.3 Preparations
  • 2.4 Memory and screen size
  • 2.5 Keyboard layout
• 3 Designing step by step
  • 3.1 AquaSoft Stages - First steps
  • 3.2 Adding images
  • 3.3 Adding videos
  • 3.4 Adding sounds
  • 3.5 Aspect Ratio 16:9 or 4:3?
    • 3.5.1 3:2 Photos without black bars and trim
  • 3.6 Saving a project
• 4 Program overview
  • 4.1 The Layout designer
  • 4.2 Live Preview
  • 4.3 Motion path preview
  • 4.4 The Toolbox
  • 4.5 The Timeline
  • 4.6 The Storyboard
  • 4.7 Image list
  • 4.8 Working with key frames
• 5 Texts and labels
  • 5.1 Labelling an image
  • 5.2 Text design
  • 5.3 Labeling videos
  • 5.4 Rotating text
  • 5.5 Text with colored background
  • 5.6 Multiple texts
  • 5.7 Animating texts with a motion path
  • 5.8 Subtitles in different languages
  • 5.9 Inserting credits
• 6 Inserting sound and music
  • 6.1 Background music tracks
  • 6.2 Settings for music
  • 6.3 Align objects in time with the music
  • 6.4 Store image group with music
  • 6.5 Individual volume control
  • 6.6 Save track list
  • 6.7 Sound Wizard
• 7 Inserting and editing videos
  • 7.1 Cropping videos
  • 7.2 Change playback speed
  • 7.3 Rotating and positioning videos
  • 7.4 Separating sound from video
  • 7.5 Deinterlacing
• 8 Camera pans
  • 8.1 Camera panning - Introduction
  • 8.2 Determining an image's display detail
  • 8.3 Zooming in
  • 8.4 Zooming out
  • 8.5 Camera panning with rotation
  • 8.6 Creating the Ken Burns effect manually
  • 8.7 Panorama pans
• 9 Motion paths
  • 9.1 Introduction to motion paths
  • 9.2 Motion path in the Toolbox
  • 9.3 Creating your own motion path
  • 9.4 Rotations
  • 9.5 Motion paths with resizing
  • 9.6 Motion paths with rotations
  • 9.7 Motion paths with text
  • 9.8 Editing the path
  • 9.9 Manual Input
• 10 Intelligent templates
  • 10.1 Using the wizard
  • 10.2 Adjusting templates
  • 10.3 Using multiple templates
  • 10.4 Keeping random values
  • 10.5 Editing templates
• 11 Fade-ins and fade-outs
  • 11.1 When should I implement fading in or out?
  • 11.2 Assigning transitions
  • 11.3 Adjusting the transition
  • 11.4 Creating your own selection
• 12 Working with multiple tracks
  • 12.1 Using a background
  • 12.2 Picture-in-picture / Collages
  • 12.3 Inserting a text track
  • 12.4 Inserting a sound track
  • 12.5 Creating a video track
• 13 Grouping with Flexi-Collage
• 14 Maps and animated paths
  • 14.1 Inserting a map
  • 14.2 Inserting a decorated path
  • 14.3 Merging map sections
• 15 Live effects
  • 15.1 Glowing transparency
  • 15.2 Bump mapping effect
  • 15.3 Chroma key
  • 15.4 Color shift
  • 15.5 Color effects
  • 15.6 Displacement effect
  • 15.7 Mask effect
  • 15.8 Halftone
  • 15.9 Layer effects
  • 15.10 Blur effect
  • 15.11 Masked blur
  • 15.12 Old-fashioned movie
  • 15.13 Mosaic
  • 15.14 Shadow effect
  • 15.15 Texture tiles
  • 15.16 3D rotation
  • 15.17 Tonal correction
• 16 Object effects
  • 16.1 Image strip
  • 16.2 Film strip
  • 16.3 Photo collage
  • 16.4 Animator
  • 16.5 Gallery
  • 16.6 Ken Burns effect
  • 16.7 Overlapping
  • 16.8 Path effect
  • 16.9 Motion path wobbling
  • 16.10 Camera wobbling
  • 16.11 Transparency fluctuation
• 17 Using shapes
  • 17.1 Circle, triangle, rectangle
  • 17.2 Fractal structures
  • 17.3 Special shapes
• 18 Assigning and creating image effects
  • 18.1 Image effects
  • 18.2 Functions in the image editor
  • 18.3 “Nostalgia” image effect
• 19 Creating particle effects
  • 19.1 Basic particle effect
  • 19.2 Sprite animation
  • 19.3 Change over lifetime
• 20 Scriptlets
• 21 Saving your custom settings
  • 21.1 Saving custom objects
  • 21.2 Saving your customized text effects
  • 21.3 Saving motion path / Camera panning
  • 21.4 Saving image effect
• 22 Control of the presentation sequence
  • 22.1 Automatic sequence
  • 22.2 Manual control
  • 22.3 Automatic and manual sequencing
  • 22.4 Endlessly repeat the presentation
  • 22.5 Using the remote control or presenter
  • 22.6 Object events
  • 22.7 Random control
• 23 Importing data
  • 23.1 Importing templates and effects
  • 23.2 Import Wizard
  • 23.3 PowerPoint Wizard
• 24 Export a project
  • 24.1 Archiving a project
  • 24.2 PC presentation
  • 24.3 Video Export
    • 24.3.1 4K Video Output
  • 24.4 Picture frame wizard
  • 24.5 Blu-ray player
  • 24.6 DVD player
  • 24.7 Menu Wizard
    • 24.7.1 A brief overview
    • 24.7.2 How to
      • 24.7.2.1 Creating a simple menu
      • 24.7.2.2 Generating a menu with chapters
      • 24.7.2.3 Assigning templates
      • 24.7.2.4 Burning a menu for the PC
      • 24.7.2.5 Exporting a menu to a folder
      • 24.7.2.6 Archiving a menu
      • 24.7.2.7 Creating a CD image for the PC
      • 24.7.2.8 Burning a menu to a DVD
      • 24.7.2.9 Generating VOB files
      • 24.7.2.10 Generating MPEG files
      • 24.7.2.11 Playback of a menu in the Menu Wizard
      • 24.7.2.12 Creating and editing a template
      • 24.7.2.13 Download Center
      • 24.7.2.14 Personalization
    • 24.7.3 Template editor
      • 24.7.3.1 Design guidelines
      • 24.7.3.2 Types of template
      • 24.7.3.3 Template design
      • 24.7.3.4 Variables
  • 24.8 YouTube Wizard
  • 24.9 Vimeo Wizard
  • 24.10 Saving the Image list as text file
• 25 Saving and recovering
  • 25.1 Auto recovery
  • 25.2 Recovering files
• 26 Properties of objects
  • 26.1 Image
  • 26.2 Flexi-Collage
  • 26.3 Chapter
  • 26.4 Particles
  • 26.5 Sound
  • 26.6 Text
  • 26.7 Video
  • 26.8 Placeholders
  • 26.9 Animated transparency
  • 26.10 Working with variables
• 27 Settings
  • 27.1 User interface selection
  • 27.2 Setting the view
  • 27.3 Project settings
  • 27.4 Program settings
• 28 Extensions