Defining the music track

Introduction

The Music properties dialog allows you to specify the music track:

This dialog is called by double-clicking the music zone of slides in the timeline of the main window.

Description of the dialog

The upper part of the dialog

Functional Principles

The main functional principle for music tracks is that as long as you do not change the settings, the previous settings apply.

So, if:

Slide 1 - Defines a play list
Slide 2 - Contains no settings
Slide 3 - Contains no settings
Slide 4 - Defines a play list
Slide 5 - Contains no settings

Then:

Slide 2 and 3 continue to play the play list defined in slide 1
Slide 5 continues to play the play list define in slide 4

Settings for the music track

Continue current playlist

Continues to play the play list define by a previous slide :

Normal	No specific settings
Change sound level	Specifies that from now on, the sound volume is reduced. This option is particularly useful, for example, to reduce the sound of the music during the play of a video. Remark : This volume reduction is defined only for this slide.
Set to pause	Pauses the current play list. Remark : This pause is defined only for this slide.

Start a new playlist

Allows you to create a new playlist.
If a list defined in a previous slide, is still playing, it is stopped with a fade-out effect (progressive decline of the sound volume up to complete stop).

The playlist (bottom part of the dialog)

This playlist section consists of two parts:

The toolbar containing controls for the playlist
The list of the music files composing the playlist

The toolbar

	Adds a file to the playlist A file selection dialog appears, allowing you to select a file.
	Removes the current selected file from the playlist.
	Changes the order in which the music files will be played. Moves the currently selected file one step up.
	Changes the order in which the music files will be played. Moves the currently selected file one step down.

The playlist

The music files are listed in the order in which they will be played, from top to bottom.
The Volume column defines the " Master volume " for the file. This volume is independent of any reductions in the volume that you define in the upper part of the dialog.

Remark

The fade in/out effects and the increase/decrease of volume take place during the entering slide transitions. Consequently:

They occupy the same time as the entering transition.
If a slide has a entering transition set to "No transition", the sound effect is not progressive but instantaneous.