![]() ![]() In Photoshop, the text is automatically place on its own layer. I bring the photograph into Photoshop and create the text of the title. Suppose you want the title to dissolve on and off a particular photograph. That file can easily be the byproduct of making a title slide. If you want your story to dissolve to black at the end, and you usually do, you will have to provide a black JPG file. You will get confirmation and an email if you entered an email address. This method keeps your source files tidy within one folder. When you import JPGs, the soundtrack is ignored. For JPGs point to the folder and for SND point to the file within the folder. The other button labeled “SND” will import your soundtrack from the same folder. Click it and point it to you source file folder. When you create a project, Soundslides has a button to import JPGs. If my Soundslides project folder were “Brownsea_Island” then my folder for my source files would be “Brownsea_Island-source_files.” In this file place your source JPG files and your finished soundtrack. Preparing Pictures and Soundtrack for Importing into SoundslidesĬreate a folder with the same root as your Soundslides project folder but add “-source_files. Normal display will be smaller and is under your control as you edit the project.ĭetails on prepping pictures and sound files are found here: Size pictures 1280 px in width, or larger, so that full-size display will have larger pictures. Soundslides allows playing picture “full-screen” which will display images as large as the originals surrounded by black. You can edit the embed code to adjust the size of display. This URL is different from the actual URL but the embed code correctly points to the actual URL. The embed code has been automatically written to be copied and pasted into the particular web page to display the story such as: If you have selected the html5 shell as above you will see the following display. The Soundslides website offers a utility that will write the code for me.Įnter the actual URL of your story. Embed code is needed but fortunately I don’t have to write it. But what if I want it to play in a blog page, which is a completely different area of the web server. Look in the URL window of your browser and you will see the exact link above. Since my domain is “,” the actual path is. Suppose I rename the “Publish to Web” to “Brownsea_Island” and place it in within a folder “Soundslides” on my webserver. Naturally, you will want to rename this folder such that the name indicates the content. You will find a new folder inside the project folder labeled “Publish to Web.” That is the file you, or a Webmaster, will move to a web server typically using an FTP program such as Filezilla. When you are finished with the Soundslides story, hit the “Export” button. Once you are in the Soundslides panel with the time line and the image icons, select Template/Shell/ios_html5. IOS products will display media served as HTML5 and Soundslides can be configured to serve HTML5 to IOS products. The late Steve Jobs did not like Flash so these products will not display Flash. There is a trick to configuring the output so that it will play on Apple products such as iPhone and iPad, with use the IOS operating system. Normally the output of a Soundslides project is a Flash program. Notice that you must export your soundtrack from Audacity, or other sound editing software, at either 44.1 kHz or 22.05 kHz at 16-bit resolution. Look carefully for the link to the fee version. mp3 using Switch, a free sound format converter. mp3 for use in Soundslides.Īlternatively you can export your edited Audacity file as a. It will be needed to export your edited soundtrack in. Due to licensing restrictions, Audacity does not supply LAME but there is a link to download it on the Audacity website. mp3 format files with installing the LAME plugin. I suggest you set up Audacity with embedded help files in case the Internet connection at your teaching location is slow or nonexistent.Īudacity cannot export. Audacity may be downloaded in two forms one with help files and the other with help files available via the Internet.
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