Photodex ProShow: Visual QuickStart Guide

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Applying Motion Effects

Chapter 3

Figure 3.46 Creating motion is as simple as setting

the starting and ending positions to different

locations. You can create a straight or diagonal

movement with very little effort. Here, your layer

will move from the right side of the slide to the left.

Figure 3.45 The Motion Effects tab is where you

will make all your motion happen. Notice the two

preview panes. These are for your starting and ending

positions. ProShow creates motion by moving your

slide from the starting to ending position.

Applying Motion Effects

 e feature that really gives you an edge in

show creation is motion. Static images and

audio are nice and can work in a slower-

paced show, but the application of even

subtle motion takes a simple show and adds

a dynamic that your audience will love.

Using motion in ProShow is a very simple

process designed to let you work as you

watch so that you can see your changes

immediately.

Essentially, you create motion by telling

ProShow where you want a layer to start

and where you want it to end. ProShow does

the rest, making changes to the layer so that

it does just what you direct it to do. All you

have to do is decide what you want your slide

to look like at the beginning and what you

want it to look like when it ends.

Let’s begin by looking at the motion e ects

and making some basic motion.

Adding Simple Motion Effects

Choose any slide you have created, and

double-click it in the Slide List.  is will

open the Slide Options dialog.

Now, click the E ects tab and then the Motion

E ects tab to open the Motion E ects dialog

(Figure 3.45).

At the top of your Motion E ects tab are two

preview panes.  e pane on the left is your

Starting Position pane.  is is what your slide

looks like at the beginning.  e pane on the

right is your Ending Position pane, which

shows what your slide will look like at the end.

Before we go into any more detail, let’s create

some simple motion to see how it works.

Drag your layer to the right of the slide in

the Starting Position pane, and then drag the

layer over to the left side of the slide in the

Ending Position pane (Figure 3.46).

Beyond the Basics

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Applying Motion Effects

Figure 3.49 The sliders and values in the Starting

Position and Ending Position panes let you manually

confi gure your motion.

Figure 3.48 The Layers list is common to

many of ProShow’s dialogs.

Figure 3.47 The Preview panel is split into starting

and ending position previews.

Once you have moved the layer around in

both panes, click the Play button

to see

what you have done. Notice that the layer

moves from the starting position on the right

side of the slide to the ending position on

the left.  at’s all it takes to create motion—

just set up the slides the way you want them

to look at the beginning and the end of the

motion. ProShow does the rest.

Now we’ll look at the rest of the options in

more detail.  e two-pane Preview panel at

the top of the screen has a few icons on the

left side, which we will cover in Chapter 7

(Figure 3.47).

Beneath the Preview panes is a Layers list

(Figure 3.48).  is is the same type of Layers

list that we covered earlier in the chapter and

works in the same way.

 e primary tools you will use for creating

motion appear in the Starting Position and

Ending Position panes (Figure 3.49).

Here, you can see that you have values for

Pan, Zoom, and Rotate. Producer users also

have a few additional options that will be

covered in Chapter 4.

 ese values function here in the same way

as when you are simply changing the appear-

ance of a layer. Pan changes the position of

the layer on the slide using X and Y values.

Zoom changes the size of the layer. Rotate

allows you to rotate the layer around.

You can change these values by manually

entering a number or moving the slider. If

you don’t like the e ect of a particular value,

you can click the reset arrow.