User manual

10 Kai’s Power SHOW
How SHOW Works
Kai’s Power SHOW is an easy-to-use
home/personal photo and business
presentation player. SHOW provides all
the tools you need to produce photo
shows and enhance business
presentations.
In most applications, tools are accessed
through menus, dialogs, and palettes. In
SHOW, functions and tools are organized
logically into four “rooms”. SHOW’s
rooms are: the IN Room, the SORT
Room, the EDIT Room, and the OUT
Room. They are designed to let you flow
from step to step, easily and logically.
To create a presentation in SHOW, use the
IN Room first, to import your digital
content; the SORT Room to sort, select,
and sequence it; the EDIT Room to edit
your content order and add transitions,
text effects, and sound clips; and the OUT
Room to save, play, or print your show.
Each room in SHOW contains all the
tools you need to complete a specific task
and create a dynamic multimedia show.
Before diving into SHOW, here are a few
basic procedures you should know.
Launching SHOW
You’ll notice when you launch SHOW,
that it takes over your entire screen, even
hiding the Windows or Macintosh menu
bar. You can access the menu bar while in
SHOW by moving the cursor to the
top-right or top-left corner of a room.
To display the system menu:
✤
Move the cursor to the top-right or
top-left corner of the room.
To use Keyboard Shortcuts:
✤
Many actions can be performed using
keyboard shortcuts. Refer to
“Keyboard Shortcuts” on page 69
for a listing of Kai’s Power SHOW
keyboard shortcuts.
Creating a New Show
There are two ways of creating a new
presentation in SHOW. You can use the
QUICKSHOW! automated feature or you
can create a show from scratch.
If you use QUICKSHOW!, creating a new
show is as simple as choosing from
statement presets that identify files,
determine slide sequence, pick which
transitions to apply, and even decide what
audio to play. Simple sentence controls
help you quickly create a custom show.
Refer to “The QUICKSHOW! Feature”
on page 36 for more on using this feature.
You can tweak your “quick” show or
create more complex presentations using
the controls in SHOW’s SORT and EDIT
Rooms. There, you sequence content and
add transitions, animated text, and sound
to each frame. The process of creating a
show is a matter of sorting and selecting
files into the Sequencer; assigning
transitions, text, and sound effects; then
saving, sharing, or printing your show.
Kai’s Power SHOW Basics