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Table Of Contents

Help contents
Copyright
Preface
Support
Before you start
- Package contents
- System requirements
- Serial number
More about MAGIX
- MAGIX Online World
- magix.info
Introduction
- What is MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 deluxe?
- What’s new in MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 deluxe?
- Additional new features of the deluxe version
- Properties
- Overview of the program interface
Quick start
- MAGIX Xtreme PhotoStory on CD & DVD 8 deluxe – It's this easy!
- Create a new slideshow with the wizard
- Designing slideshows
- Creating CD/DVD menus
  - Create multiple slideshows
  - Menu view and menu navigation
Edit Fotoshow
- Video monitor and transport control
  - Cut button and editing menu
- Media Pool
- Toolbar
Start and end markers
Overview mode
Storyboard mode
Timeline mode
- What is Timeline mode?
- Timeline
- Tracks
- Zooming
- Grid
- Objects
- Mouse modes
The "Burn" interface
- Basic and advanced mode
- Preview
  - Menu entries and preview pictures
  - Menu entry properties
- Menu templates
- Menu options
  - Background graphic
  - OnDisc Editing – Load project from disc
- Design
- Navigation
- Remote Control
Media Pool
- Media
- Deleting, copying and moving files
- Load pictures, texts and audio files
  - Preview
Fades
Titles
Effects
- Templates
- Image optimization
- Distortion
- View & animation
- Design
  - decoration
- Picture-in-picture collages
- Animate objects
Record
- Audio recording
  - Advanced audio recording settings
- Connecting the source for recording
- Adjusting the signal level
- Individual Frame Capture
  - Advanced settings in the video recording dialog
Transitions (fades)
- Transitions in Storyboard Mode
- Simple crossfade in Timeline Mode
- Drag & drop onto a "hard" transition
- 3D series
Effects
- Effects in menus
- Effects from the Media Pool
- Optimize picture
- Video stabilization
  - Image stabilization dialog
- MovieShow Maker
  - Advanced
- Sound optimization
- Title
- Remix Agent
Create panorama pictures
MAGIX Soundtrack Maker
- Choose music style
- Set mood change
- Generate background music
Options for using the final movie
- Export
- Export audio/video
- Burn disc
- Create PC show
- Create webDVD
Online functions
- Integrated browser
  - Navigation in the browser
  - Define the path for saving Internet media.
- MAGIX Screenshare
- MAGIX News Center
- Send slideshow as email (deluxe version)
- Online
Menus
- File menu
- Edit menu
- Effects (FX)
- Online menu
- Tasks menu
- Help menu
General settings
- Playback
- Arranger
Folders
Options
- Preview
- Video options
- System
- Standard picture length
Display
Project- and slideshow-relevant settings
- New project - Settings
- Movie properties
Problems and solutions
- File will not load
- Choppy or uneven playback
- Possible problems and their solutions
Activate additional functions
- Free activation (MPEG 2 codec)
- Fee-based activation (MPEG-4)
- Possible problems and their solutions
Keyboard shortcuts
- Media Pool
- Slideshow
Annex: Digital Video and Data Storage
- Video Editing on the PC
- MPEG Compression
- General notes on AVI videos
- Capacity and quality of different disc formats
Appendix: MPEG Encoder Settings
- General settings
- Video settings
- Advanced video settings
- Audio settings
MPEG glossary
- Motion estimation
- Bit rate
- Block
- Chroma format
- Field
- Frame
- GOP
- I frames
- Interlace
- P frames and B frames
- Prediction
- Quantization scaling
If you still have questions...
- PDF manual

Background design

Select a color, a picture, or any video on your hard disk which you would like to serve as the

background for the photo displayed. This function is especially useful when photos have black bars

around them or if they are reduced in size.

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