Automatic creation of a digital slide show

This Wizard is the fastest and simplest way to create a slide show with dissolves. Only few steps are required:

1. Adding pictures

In the tool bar click New and select Project Wizards in the left field of the dialog displayed.

From the list, select Automatic creation of a digital slide show and click OK.

The next thing is to add the corresponding images. There are three options for this:

Select pictures individually ...after clicking the button a file dialog appears which allows selection of single or groups of pictures which can be added by clicking Open.

All pictures in a folder ...after clicking the button a dialog appears which allows selection of a folder. After clicking OK all the pictures and the subfolder contained in this folder are added to the show.

Via Drag & Drop ...this is a particularly easy way of organizing a show. Just open the Windows Explorer or your Image Browser and drag and drop the images in the desired order into the field next to the buttons.

The field below shows the number of pictures contained in the show.

2. Defining slide show properties

You can now make the settings that decide how your slide show is to be presented:

Aspect ratio ...choose Automatic for automatic adjustment of the aspect ratio to match your pictures. If you want to select any other aspect ratio, click .

Sequence ...determines the order of pictures in the show.

Order of insertion ...the pictures are shown in the same order they are added.

File date ...sorts the pictures in a chronological order in accordance with the file date.

File name ...sorts the images alphabetically, starting with A

Capture date ...sorts the pictures in a chronological order in accordance with the capture date..

Playback ...influences the way playback is organized and the slide change.

Automatic slide change...causes automatic and continuous playback in accordance with the Display time and Fade time chosen.
Enter key advances to next slide...you decide individually when to change the picture. In this case pause markers will be placed before the beginning of every new picture. The Display time should, therefore, be kept rather short, e.g. 2 seconds; this is considered the minimum display time.

3. Finish and start playback

Now click Finish, for all the pictures to be displayed in the timeline as a show. The display data may still need to be completed but this is done automatically in the background.

You can start playback by hitting the space bar and the picture fades will be shown in the screen window. Stop playback by pressing the Esc key.

(Paused) full screen mode at maximal quality is enabled by pressing the F5 key. Playback is started by pressing the Enter key. When your show contains pause markers, playback is paused at these locations. Press Enter to continue playback.

To stop and terminate full screen mode, press Esc twice.

When Wings Vioso RX closes, you will be queried if you want to save the project. Confirm this request, if you want to show the slide show again. This requires only little storage capacity as Wings Vioso RX only saves the information in a describing file format which does not contain any image files.

If you are using images with different formats or mix landscape with portrait format you should choose Standard crossfade to get crossfades without jumps. See Global Options - Objects - Pictures.

By default the render display with full screen display appears on Monitor 1. If you want to output the full screen to another monitor you need to change the settings in the Display Properties. And this is how it is done...