The management of slides is made by means of the buttons of the toolbar
These buttons are grouped in four tabs: File / Project / Render and Help

The project management commands

The following table summarizes the main commands of management:

Toolbar button
File menu command Action

New
Allows to create a new blank project by using the default project settings as defined in the Application settings dialog box.
(If current project has modifications which were not saved yet, ffDiaporama suggest to save the current project.)

Open
Allows to open an existing project. The file selection dialog box appears and allows you to select the project to be opened.
(If current project has modifications which were not saved yet, ffDiaporama suggest to save the current project.)
Open recent
Allows to open a project opened recently. FfDiaporama stores a list of the last ten used projects.
(If current project has modifications which were not saved yet, ffDiaporama suggest to save the current project.)

Save
Allows to save the current project in a file project.
If you did not still save the project, a file selection dialog box appears and allows you to select a file of destination.

Save as
Allows to save the current project in another file project.
The file selection dialog box appears and allows you to select a file of destination.

Settings
Allows to define applications settings.
The Application settings dialog box appears.

Quit
Allow to exit ffDiaporama.
(If current project has modifications which were not saved yet, ffDiaporama suggest to save the current project.)


The slide management commands

The following table summarizes the main commands of management:

Toolbar button Project menu command Action

Add title
Allows to add an empty slide : An empty slide is append to the project and is display in the timeline.

Add files
Allows to add one or several files of type photo or video : A file selection dialog box appears and allows you to select one or several files.
Note: Each file so selected is added to the project in the alphabetical order of the names of file or in the digital order of shots.
Cameras number pictures/movie as they are taken, using the digital order allows to constitute the project in the chronological order of shots.

Add project
Allows to add the slides of an existing project, at the end the current project : A file selection dialog box appears and allows you to select a project file. Slides as well as slide settings, music and background of the project to be added are added to the current project.

Cut
Allows to cut the current slide (remove it from the timeline and put it in the clipboard).
Copy
Allows to copy the current slide to the clipboard.

Paste
Allows to paste the slide currently in the clipboard to the timeline.
Edit
Open a small menu which allows to reach the modification functions:
  • Background property (Equivalent to a double click on the background track)
  • Slide property (Equivalent to a double click on the mounting track)
  • Music property (Equivalent to a double click on the music track)
  • Entering transition property (Equivalent to a double click on the transition)
  • Entering background transition property (Equivalent to a double click on the background transition)

Remove
Allows to remove the current slide.

Render
Allows to render the movie of the project. The Render movie dialog box appears.

Note: the insertions of slide are either at the end of the project, or after the current slide, according to the option " added the new slides (at the end of the project or after the current slide) " of the configuration dialog box.

The render commands

The following table summarizes the main render commands:

Toolbar button Render menu command Action

Player and Smartphone
Allows to render the movie by selecting an equipment since the device database.
The Render movie dialog box from database appears.
Multimedia system
For the WEB

Advanced
Allows to render the movie using the Advanced render movie dialog box.

The help commands

The following table summarizes the main help commands:

Toolbar button Help menu command Action

About
Allows to open the about dialog box. This box display informations about release, licence and system informations
Support and help
Open the Help and support page from the ffDiaporama WEB site
What's new
Open the Blog/News page from the ffDiaporama WEB site

See also



ffDiaporama 1.0 - July 2011