Nuance Kai's Power Show Operating instructions

Brand: Nuance

Model: Kai's Power Show

Type: Operating instructions

User Guide

for Windows

and Macintosh

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Contents

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Table of Contents

Welcome to SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Key Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

About This User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . v

Technical Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi

Technical Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .vi

Video Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vi

Chapter 1

Installation

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installing Kai’s Power SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Windows Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Macintosh Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

System Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Installation Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2

Kai’s Power SHOW Basics

. . . . 10

How SHOW Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Launching SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Creating a New Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Opening a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Working in a Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Displaying Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using Memory Dots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

Moving Between Rooms . . . . . . . . . . 13

Working with Show Content . . . . . . . . . . 13

Selecting Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Viewing File Names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Arranging Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

Arranging Content on the Desktop . 14

Arranging Content in the

Sequencer and Nano Sequencer . . . . 14

Undoing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Redoing Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

Playing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Quitting SHOW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Chapter 3

Kai’s Power SHOW Tutorial

. . . 17

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Lesson 1: Importing Files in the

IN Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Creating a QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lesson 1: Creating a

QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Lesson 2: Editing a

QUICKSHOW! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19

Sorting Images in the SORT Room . . . . . 20

Lesson 1: Sorting Pictures on the

Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Lesson 2: Loading files into the

Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

Enhancing Slides in the EDIT Room . . . . 24

Lesson 1: Choosing a Slide to

Enhance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Lesson 2: Special Effect

Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Lesson 3: Setting Up Transition

Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Lesson 1: Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Lesson 2: Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . 27

Lesson 3: Changing Text Attributes . 27

Lesson 4: Adding a Background . . . . 28

Lesson 5: Adding Text Effects . . . . . . 28

Using Sound Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

Lesson 1: Attaching Sound Clips . . . 29

Playing Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Lesson 1: Using the Projector Icon . 30

Saving Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Lesson 1: Saving Shows . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Distributing Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Lesson 1: Preparing a Show for

Distribution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

Lesson 2: Distributing a Show . . . . . 32

Lesson 2: Saving SHOW Slides . . . . . 33

Printing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

Lesson 1: Setting Up a Page . . . . . . . 34

Kai’s Power SHOW

Chapter 4

The IN Room

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

How the IN Room Works . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Thumbnails, Icons, and Piles . . . . . . . . . . . 35

Working in the IN Room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

The QUICKSHOW! Feature . . . . . . . 36

Importing Show Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Importing Photos and Pictures . . . . . 37

Importing Video Clips . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Importing PowerPoint Slides . . . . . . 38

Importing SHOW Slides . . . . . . . . . . 39

Loading Content from Digital

Input Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Capturing Content Using Plug-ins . . 39

Adding Shows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Deleting Thumbnails from the

IN Room Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Chapter 5

The SORT Room

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

How the SORT Room Works . . . . . . . . . . 41

Sorting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Selecting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41

Working in the SORT Room . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Sort Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Select Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

Nano Sequencer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Sorting Content . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Working with Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Arranging Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Saving Thumbnail Positions . . . . . . . 44

Selecting Thumbnails . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Deleting Thumbnails from the SORT

Room Desktop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Setting Thumbnail Size . . . . . . . . . . . 45

Adding Content to a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46

Using the Sequence Floatoid . . . . . . . 46

Using the Sequence Cursor . . . . . . . . 46

Sequencing Content in a Show . . . . . . . . . 47

Using the Sequencer Menu . . . . . . . . 48

Using the Nano Sequencer . . . . . . . . 48

Playing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

Chapter 6

The EDIT Room

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

How the EDIT Room Works . . . . . . . . . . . 50

What Are Transitions? . . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Working in the EDIT Room . . . . . . . . . . . 50

Current Frame Window . . . . . . . . . . 51

In and Out Transition Windows . . . 51

Working with Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

Selecting Frames to Edit . . . . . . . . . . 51

Copying-and-Pasting Slides . . . . . . . 52

Flipping Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Adding a Slide Display Time to a

Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52

Adding Transitions to a Show . . . . . . . . . . 53

Using the Transition Dialogs . . . . . . 53

Applying transitions to multiple

frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Using Transition Presets . . . . . . . . . . 54

Working with Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

Adding Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Editing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55

Adding Backgrounds to Slides . . . . . 57

Animating Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Text fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58

Adding Sound . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Loading Sound Clips into SHOW . . 60

Using Sound Fx Presets . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Playing Soundtracks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60

Playing a Show in the EDIT Room . . . . . . 61

Chapter 7

The OUT Room

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Outputting Your Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Selecting Slides for Output . . . . . . . . 62

Saving a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62

Save Show vs. Save Project . . . . . . . . 63

Saving a SHOW Project . . . . . . . . . . 63

Saving a Finished Show File . . . . . . . 64

Distributing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64

The SHOW Player Software . . . . . . . 65

Distributing the SHOW Player

Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Macintosh and Windows SHOW

Players . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

Saving a SHOW Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Saving as HTML Pages . . . . . . . . . . . 66

Recording Shows to Videotape . . . . . 67

AVI or QuickTime Output . . . . . . . . 67

Printing a Show . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Setting Up a Page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Printing a Single Slide . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Printing a Show as Individual

Slides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Congratulations! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

Chapter 8

Keyboard Shortcuts

. . . . . . . . . . . 69

Welcome

Welcome to SHOW

Welcome to Kai’s Power SHOW™ by

ScanSoft, Inc. SHOW is the perfect photo

and presentation player for creative home

consumers, as well as business

professionals. It allows users of all skill

levels to sequence and share digital

photos, business slides, pictures, and

video clips with a new level of simplicity

and sophistication.

Incorporating special effect transitions

and real-time text animators, SHOW

offers an easy, fast, and fun way to create,

enhance, and share a presentation using

the included SHOW Player software, a

computer monitor, a projector, a printer,

or the Web.

Your Kai’s Power SHOW package

includes:

• The SHOW CD-ROM

• The SHOW Quick Reference Card

• Your SHOW Serial Number

If you are missing any of these items,

please contact your SHOW dealer or

distributor, or contact ScanSoft, Inc. at

www.scansoft.com.

Key Features

Kai’s Power SHOW offers the following

powerful, basic features:

• Innovative interface and efﬁcient

workﬂow

• QUICKSHOW!’s “Simple Sentence

Control”

• Versatile import ﬁle format support

• Works great with cameras and

scanners

• Video and sound clip import

• PC PowerPoint slide import

• Sophisticated sequencing controls

• Powerful special effect transitions

• TV-like text effects

• Extensive sound effect library

• Extensive slide background presets

• Included SHOW Player software

• Flexible output options including:

computer monitor, projector, printer,

and the Web

• Works great with other popular

products

About This User Guide

This User Guide provides the information

you need to use SHOW effectively. It will

help you learn the application and serve as

a reference as you attempt more

sophisticated procedures.

This User Guide assumes you are already

familiar with basic Windows or

Macintosh concepts—menus, dialogs,

and mouse operations such as

clicking-and-dragging. If you need more

information on these subjects, or on the

Windows Desktop, or Macintosh Finder,

please refer to the Microsoft Windows

User’s Guide or the Macintosh User’s

Manual, respectively.

Conventions

This user guide is for both Windows and

Macintosh users. By convention,

Macintosh commands precede Windows

commands in the text. For example,

Command/Ctrl+I is equivalent to the

Macintosh Command-I and the Windows

Ctrl+I. For simplicity, the term folder

refers to directories as well as folders. The

SHOW interface for both platforms is

identical, unless otherwise speciﬁed.

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Technical Support

You will ﬁnd the answers to most of your

questions within the pages of this user

guide.

If you need further assistance, contact

ScanSoft Customer Support on the World

Wide Web at:

www.scansoft.com

Note: ScanSoft reserves the right to

change its support policies at any time.

Technical Tips

SHOW can perform truly wonderful

real-time special effect transitions, text

effects, and previews. To perform at this

peak level, SHOW requires an adequate

amount of computer power to look its

best. If you notice that transitions or

animations look “jerky,” if the colors look

strange, or if you simply want to ensure

that you are getting the most from the

application, then this section is for you.

Even more than computer performance,

our tests indicate that setting up your

video card properly can have the most

positive impact on SHOW performance.

This section talks about two important

setup factors and how you might enhance

them to ensure efﬁciency.

Video Drivers

It is very important to obtain the latest

video drivers from your manufacturer.

Upgrading drivers is usually free, and

generally provides a speed boost and bug

ﬁxes as well.

Video Settings

Modern video cards give you a “color

depth” choice. This color depth is the

number of bits to use for each screen

pixel.

Generally, the more bits per pixel, the

better the quality, and the slower the

speed. However, that's not always the case,

and the only way to ﬁnd out for sure is to

test the available options. To perform a

test, make one of the following changes

after closing SHOW. Then reopen SHOW

and use the same transition each time.

Choose the video setting that makes the

transitions look the most ﬂuid.

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On the PC:

Right-click on the desktop,

choose “Properties,” then click the

“Settings” tab.

On the Macintosh:

Choose “Control

Panels - Monitors.”

SHOW does not operate well in modes

where only 256 colors display. At 256

colors, graphics look poor and

performance generally suffers as well.

On many machines, the best performance

is achieved at 16-bit color (thousands of

colors). This mode allows faster drawing

to the screen, and reasonably good quality.

On the newest machines, or for those who

want very good quality, 24-bit color

(millions of colors) is the best choice.

However, on older hardware that wasn't

built to be efﬁcient in this mode, you may

notice a signiﬁcant slowdown.

Choosing the display resolution will not

affect your performance signiﬁcantly.

However, running presentations at a lower

resolution makes the show larger and

more visually appealing.

Color Depth

Quality Speed

8-bit:

256 colors

Poor Poor

16-bit:

thousands

Good Excellent

24-bit:

millions of

colors

Excellent Good to

Excellent

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Installing Kai’s Power SHOW

This chapter covers the installation of

your Kai’s Power SHOW software.

Instructions are provided for both

Windows and Macintosh. Follow the

instructions appropriate to your system.

Windows Installation

System Requirements

• Pentium Processor

• Windows 95/NT 4

• 16 MB Free RAM

• 16- or 24-Bit Video

• 45 MB Free Hard Drive Space

• CD-ROM Drive

• Audio Card (Optional)

Installation

To install Kai’s Power SHOW:

If necessary, launch Windows (95 or

NT 4).

SHOW will not install in Windows

NT 3.5.1 or Windows 3.X.

Insert the SHOW CD-ROM into your

CD-ROM drive.

The installer and all related files reside

in the root directory of the SHOW

CD-ROM.

If you’re using Windows NT 4 or

Windows 95, choose

Start menu>

Run

Type the letter corresponding to your

CD-ROM drive, followed by

:\setup

(for example, type

d:\setup

if using

the D drive) and click the OK button.

Follow the displayed prompts.

Macintosh Installation

System Requirements

• Power Macintosh

• MacOS 7.5.5 or Later

• 16 MB Free RAM

• 16- or 24-Bit Video

• 50 MB Free Hard Drive Space

• CD-ROM Drive

Installation

To install Kai’s Power SHOW:

Insert the SHOW CD-ROM into your

CD-ROM drive.

Double-click the SHOW CD-ROM

icon on the desktop.

Double-click the SHOW Installer icon

to begin installation.

Installation

The installation dialog displays an

important ReadMe. Click “Continue”

after reading the complete ReadMe.

In the main install window, click

“Install.”

Installation Tips

• On a PC, set your system display to

high color (16-bit, thousands of

colors) or greater. On a Macintosh, set

your monitor to 16-bit (thousands of

colors) or greater.

• On a PC, disable or close all

applications running in the

background including: anti-virus,

crash monitors, and system diagnostic

software.

• On a Macintosh, if you receive an

error message while attempting to

launch SHOW which states, “the

application SHOW could not be

opened because axiom could not be

found,” it means that your Macintosh

did not have enough memory left

(after launching SHOW) to load the

necessary “axiom” extension.

If this happens, try quitting other

applications or allocating LESS

memory to SHOW to give the System

extra breathing space. To reduce

SHOW’s memory, select the

application icon, choose

File menu>

Get Info

and allocate slightly less

RAM in “Preferred Size.”

• On a Macintosh, allocating more

available RAM to SHOW allows it to

run faster and handle larger ﬁles more

efﬁciently.

If you must use relatively large files,

increase the RAM available to SHOW.

To increase the available RAM, select

the application icon, choose

File

menu> Get Info

, and allocate more

RAM in “Preferred Size.”

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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

To create a new show:

In the IN Room, import, capture, or

scan the digital photos or business

slides you want to use.

In the SORT Room, sort and select the

speciﬁc ﬁles you want to use in your

show.

Add ﬁles to the Sequencer in the order

you desire using SHOW’s custom

Sequence cursor or the Sequence

Floatoid.

In the EDIT Room, add transitions

between frames with SHOW’s "Five

Favorites" (a set of ﬁve user-deﬁnable

presets), or choose from a list of

SHOW transitions. Add animated text

and sound clips to your frames.

Play the show using the Projector icon

in the SORT or EDIT Rooms.

In the OUT Room, save your show, or

output it in a number of ways.

Opening a Show

A show created in Kai’s Power SHOW can

be saved in the OUT Room as a project

ﬁle or as a ﬁnished show ﬁle. Unﬁnished

shows are typically saved as project ﬁles.

• The

Save Project

option lets you save

a show in-progress. Save Project

creates a project ﬁle (.shw) and a

folder. These contain information

about where ﬁles are located on your

hard drive, about transitions, and

even about presets. Save Project does

not copy ﬁles or prepare your show

for distribution.

• The

Save Show

option lets you save

and share your ﬁnished show. It

collects and optimizes all ﬁles in your

show, then copies them into a folder

that you can move or share. Save

Show creates a show ﬁle (.sas)

containing information about how to

reconstruct the show.

When you open a project or show, SHOW

gathers all the content in the show and

places it in the Sequencer and Nano

Sequencer where it is ready for immediate

edit or playback.

To open a previously saved project or

show:

Make sure you’re in the IN Room.

Move the cursor over the Open Show

label, then click the Open an Existing

Show button.

In the dialog that appears, locate the

ﬁle you want and open it.

Working in a Room

There are several basic operations that are

common to all rooms. The following

sections provide procedures for basic

operations in any SHOW room.

Displaying Controls

To keep the main working area of a room

uncluttered, many of SHOW’s controls

fade or minimize in size when not in use.

Faded controls re-appear when you move

the cursor over them, and then slowly fade

away when the cursor moves away.

The seven main buttons in the IN Room are

examples of fading controls.

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Minimized controls expand when you

click them. They remain expanded until

you click them again.

To display faded controls:

✤

Move the cursor over an area of the

room where a control is located.

Faded buttons are generally marked

by text labels on the desktop.

To expand minimized controls:

✤

Click the control to expand it. Click

the control again to minimize it.

The Global Menu

You can access several SHOW shortcuts,

such as New, Open, and Save commands,

Printer Settings, Undo, and Quit, from the

Global menu. This menu appears in all

four rooms.

To display the Global menu:

Click the Kai’s Power SHOW label in the

top-left corner of each room, or

Control-click or right-click anywhere on

the screen.

Using Memory Dots

Several of the controls in SHOW contain

memory dots. Memory dots store

user-deﬁnable presets and control

settings, so that you can quickly and easily

use those settings at a later time.

Memory dots are saved with SHOW

project or show ﬁles, so your settings are

available the next time you open the

project or show. Most memory dots come

preloaded.

Use memory dots to set and activate:

Simple Sentence Control scripts in the IN

Room, thumbnail positions on the

desktop in the SORT Room, and “Five

Favorites” effect options in the EDIT

Room. These dots serve different

purposes in different procedures, but they

all behave the same.

To activate a saved setting:

✤

Click a full memory dot.

The Sort and Select controls in the SORT Room

ﬁrst appear minimized and can be expanded by

clicking on them.

Use the Global menu to access several shortcut

features.

Use memory dots to preset and control settings.

Kai’s Power SHOW Basics

To clear a memory dot:

✤

Option/Alt-click a full dot.

To store settings in a memory dot:

✤

Clear the memory dot of any existing

preset value.

✤

Select or highlight your desired preset.

✤

Click an empty memory dot to set it.

Moving Between Rooms

Although the linear order of SHOW’s four

rooms presents an efﬁcient workﬂow, you

can move to any room, at any time.

Simply click a room name (located at the

top of each room) to enter that room. The

current room name appears in white.

To move between rooms:

✤

Click the desired room name in the

menu at the top of the screen.

Working with Show Content

A show is made up of a series of frames

that can be digital photos, pictures,

business slides, or video clips. Here are

basic procedures to use when working

with content.

Selecting Thumbnails

The content you import into SHOW

appears as thumbnails on the IN Room

and SORT Room desktops. When you

move between the IN and SORT Rooms,

thumbnail icons remain on the desktop.

Import a single ﬁle and it appears as a

single thumbnail. A folder of ﬁles displays

as a pile of thumbnails.

You can select thumbnails individually or

in groups in the SORT Room. Once

selected, thumbnails can be moved,

sequenced, or deleted.

A selected thumbnail has a highlight

around it.

To select a thumbnail:

✤

Click the thumbnail.

To select a group of thumbnails:

✤

Drag an area around the ﬁles you

want to select or hold down the Shift

key and click each ﬁle you want to

include in the selection.

To add to a selection:

✤

Hold down the Shift key and click the

ﬁle you want to add to the selection.

Click the room names to move between rooms.

When a thumbnail is selected, a highlight

appears around it.

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To remove a thumbnail from a selection:

✤

Hold down the Shift key and click a

selected item. The highlight around

the item disappears.

To deselect a group of thumbnails:

✤

Click outside the selection, or click on

the desktop of the room.

You can also select and deselect

thumbnails in the SORT Room using

SHOW’s custom cursors found in the

Select control. Refer to

“Selecting

Thumbnails” on page 44

for more

information.

Viewing File Names

As you move the cursor over a thumbnail

and pause, its ﬁle name appears. You can

disable this feature by selecting “Hide File

Names” in the Global menu.

To hide ﬁle names on thumbnails:

✤

Go to the Global menu or

Control-click or right-click anywhere

on the screen. Choose Hide File

Names.

Arranging Content

Content can be arranged differently

depending on which room you are in.

When you’re in the SORT Room, content

is arranged by dragging thumbnails on the

desktop.

In the SORT and EDIT Rooms, content

within the Sequencer can be arranged by

dragging a frame within the Sequencer.

This changes the show’s frame order.

Arranging Content on the

Desktop

Just as you would with a stack of photos in

the real world, you can arrange

thumbnails into logical piles on SHOW’s

desktop. You can have all the photos of

people in one pile, all the photos of

landscapes in another pile, and so on.

Arranging Content in the

Sequencer and Nano Sequencer

The Sequencer and Nano Sequencer,

which appear at the bottom of the SORT

and EDIT rooms, display all the content

(frames) currently in your show.

You can use these “ﬁlmstrip” controls to

keep track of the items in your show and

to re-arrange the order of your show

contents.

Items are added to the Sequencer in the

SORT Room. Once an item is in the

Sequencer, it also appears in the Nano

Sequencer. Refer to

“Adding Content to a

Show” on page 46

for more information.

Once an item appears as a frame in the

show, you change its position in the show

by clicking-and-dragging its frame to a

different location in either sequencer.

The best method of sequencing the

frames in your show is to select them in

the proper order when first adding

them to the Sequencer, using the

Sequence Floatoid or the Select

control’s Sequence cursor in the SORT

Use the Sequencer and Nano Sequencer to keep

track of all the frames in your show.

Kai’s Power SHOW Basics

Room. Use click-and-drag to “tweak”

your sequence later if necessary.

Refer to

“Adding Content to a

Show” on page 46

for more on using

the Sequence cursor to add content to

the Sequencer.

To arrange items in the Sequencer:

✤

Click-hold the frame you want to

move and drag it to a new position in

the Sequencer. When the frame is in

the desired position, release the

mouse button.

An insertion point appears as you

drag to help you see where the frame

will be inserted in the show (the

border between the before and after

frame highlights).

If you scroll off the sides of the

Sequencer, it automatically scrolls in

the direction you’re dragging.

To scroll the Sequencer:

✤

Click the scroll arrow on the left or

right end of the Sequencer, or keep

dragging a frame to access a

destination not currently displayed.

✤

You can also access frames not

currently displayed in the Sequencer

by clicking-and-dragging the Nano

Sequencer’s blue Current Frame

Indicator. This tool also determines

the current frame in your show or a

new frame insertion point.

Undoing Operations

SHOW’s undo feature lets you reverse the

last action you performed. You can undo

an operation by using the Global menu,

or by pressing Command/Ctrl-Z.

To undo the last operation:

✤

Select Undo in the Global menu or

Control-click or right-click and

choose Undo from the pop-up menu.

Press Command/Ctrl-Z.

Redoing Operations

You can reverse your last undo using the

Redo command. When you undo a

command, the pop-up menu indicates

which action was undone. For example, if

you used undo to reverse a deletion, the

Redo text reads “Redo Delete.”

To redo an operation:

✤

Select Redo in the Global menu or

Control-click or right-click and

choose Redo from the pop-up menu.

Click the arrows on the right end of the

Sequencer to scroll forward through the show, or

the left arrow to scroll backward.

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Playing a Show

The Projector icon, which appears in the

SORT and EDIT Rooms, lets you play the

frames currently in the Sequencer. If no

transitions have been applied, the default

transition “Dissolve” is used.

When a show is playing, slides appear on a

black background that covers your entire

screen.

To play a show:

✤

Click the Projector icon located in the

top-right corner of the Sequencer.

To pause and resume a show:

✤

Press the Spacebar.

To stop and exit a show:

✤

Press ESC.

Quitting SHOW

You can close SHOW from any of the four

rooms using the Global or pop-up menu.

To close SHOW:

Select Quit SHOW in the Global

menu.

Control-click or right-click and

choose Quit SHOW from the pop-up

menu.

If you have any changes you want to

save, click Yes, otherwise click No.

There are also several options for saving

projects and shows. Saving operations are

done in the OUT Room. Refer to

“Saving

a Show” on page 62

for more

information.

Use the Projector icon to play your show in the

SORT or EDIT Rooms.

Kai’s Power SHOW Tutorial

Welcome

Welcome to the Kai’s Power SHOW

Tutorial. The main goal of this tutorial is

to familiarize you with SHOW’s main

features and functions, and to teach you

how to use them to create a dynamic

presentation.

This tutorial will also introduce you to

SHOW’s room structure and its related

workﬂow advantages.

To help you follow along, each set of

lessons begins with a section called

The Story So Far. This section tells you

what you’ve learned in the previous

sections, and prepares you for what’s

next.

Getting Started

The ﬁrst thing you need to do to start the

tutorial is to launch SHOW and import

some images.

To launch SHOW:

✤

Double-click the SHOW icon on the

desktop, or select it from among the

programs in the Start menu.

The IN Room appears. This is where

you begin creating your show.

Lesson 1: Importing Files in the

IN Room

This lesson walks you through the process

of importing your photos, pictures,

business slides, and video clips into

SHOW.

Each of the seven IN Room labels: Open

Show, File, Folder, QUICKSHOW!,

TWAIN, Capture, and Add Show

identiﬁes a different SHOW input option.

As you move the cursor over each label, a

button appears that describes each input

option in greater detail. As you move the

cursor to the next label, the last button

gently fades away.

The IN Room is where you can import source

ﬁles you’ll use to create a show.

Kai’s Power SHOW Tutorial

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To import a folder of photos:

1. Move the cursor over the Folder label,

then click on the Add a Folder of Files

button.

The Open dialog appears.

2. Select the contents of the folder Kai’s

Power SHOW:Extras: Photos &

Movies: Travel Photos on the SHOW

CD-ROM.

3. Click the Select “Travel Photos”

button (Mac) or click OK (PC) to

open the Travel Photos folder. The

contents of the Travel Photos folder

appear as a pile of thumbnails on the

desktop.

Each thumbnail represents an

individual file. Each folder added

forms a pile of thumbnails.

Now that you have some source photos,

you can create a show.

Creating a QUICKSHOW!

The lessons in this section will teach you

how to create a quick show in a few easy

steps using the photos you imported in

the IN Room and the Create a

QUICKSHOW! dialog.

The Story So Far

So far in this tutorial, you’ve learned how

to import photos into SHOW. The folder

of photos you imported will be used to

create a show. To ﬁnd out more about

QUICKSHOW!, refer to “The

QUICKSHOW! Feature” on page 36.

Lesson 1: Creating a

QUICKSHOW!

To help you create presentations quickly

and easily, SHOW provides a powerful

feature called QUICKSHOW!, which uses

a Simple Sentence Control system to

automate the show-creation process.

When you move the cursor over the

QUICKSHOW! label, the Create A

QUICKSHOW! button appears. Click it

and a dialog appears that displays several

basic statements. These describe how a

new show will be created. To change how

the show is created, simply change one of

the statements.

To create a QUICKSHOW!:

1. Move the cursor over the

QUICKSHOW! label in the

IN Room, then click the “Create a

QUICKSHOW!” button.

As you move the cursor over the labels in the IN

Room, buttons appear.

Files imported into SHOW appear as thumbnails

on the desktop.

Use the Create a QUICKSHOW! button to open

the QUICKSHOW! dialog.

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The Create a QUICKSHOW! dialog

appears.

2. Click on the ﬁrst statement, then click

with all ﬁles from the list that appears.

With all ﬁles becomes the ﬁrst line in

the sentence.

3. Click the second statement, then click

sequence them randomly.

4. Click the third statement, then click

and use random transitions.

5. Click the fourth statement, then click

add a short delay.

6. Click the ﬁfth statement, then click

play CD track #1.

Select play no sound if you don’t have

an audio CD available.

7. Click the sixth statement, then click

and enter the SORT Room after

playing.

Now that you’ve set up your Simple

Sentence Control (SSC) script, you can

save it for later use with different source

ﬁles.

To save an SSC Script:

✤ Click on an empty memory dot in the

lower-left corner of the Create a

QUICKSHOW! dialog.

You’re now ready to execute your SSC

script.

To execute an SSC Script:

1. Click the “Do It!” button. SHOW

automatically executes the script and

immediately plays your custom show.

You can cancel out of the Create a

QUICKSHOW! dialog without

executing it. Just click outside the

dialog.

Lesson 2: Editing a QUICKSHOW!

Since the last statement in your SSC script

was and enter the SORT Room after

playing, the SORT Room appears when

the show ﬁnishes playing. The SORT

Room lets you rearrange the sequence of

slides in your quick show, or if you’re

creating a presentation from scratch

without QUICKSHOW!, the SORT Room

is where you’ll initially sort, select, and

sequence your IN Room content.

Use SHOW’s Simple Sentence Control to set how

your show is created.

This is how your ﬁnished sentences read.

Click a memory dot to save an SSC script for

later use.

Click the Do It! button to execute your script.

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Notice that the photos you added in the

IN Room also appear in the same desktop

location in the SORT Room.

To edit a “quick” show sequence:

Click-hold the cursor over Frame 1 in

the Sequencer and drag it to the

Frame 5 position.

When the border between Frame 5

and 6 is highlighted, release the

mouse button.

The frame is positioned between the

current fifth and sixth frame when

released.

The frames shift to fill the gap left by

the frame you moved.

Sorting Images in the SORT

Room

The SORT Room helps you to sort, select,

and sequence the content you imported in

the IN Room. The SORT Room provides

two main controls: the Sort control and

the Select control.

The Sort control allows you to quickly

sort your thumbnails using several basic

criteria. The Select control provides the

ability to select, deselect, group, or add

content on the desktop to your show

using simple mouse clicks and custom

cursors.

The Story So Far

So far in this tutorial, you’ve learned how

to import photos and pictures into

SHOW using the IN Room, and how to

quickly create shows using the

QUICKSHOW! feature. In this section

you’ll use the Sort control to sort the

folder of photos you imported in the IN

Room. Refer to

“Sort Control” on

page 42

and

“Sorting Content” on

page 43

for more on these controls.

Lesson 1: Sorting Pictures on the

Desktop

In this lesson, you’ll sort through the

Travel Photos you imported in the IN

Room.

Before you begin your work in the SORT

Room, ﬁrst empty the Sequencer

“ﬁlmstrip” of the QUICKSHOW! frames.

To empty the Sequencer:

Click the Sequencer menu in the

top-left corner of the Sequencer.

Choose:

Select > All Frames

Click the Sequencer menu again.

This time, choose:

Select > Delete

Move the slide from the Frame 1 position to the

Frame 5 position using click-and-drag.

The frames in the Sequencer shift to ﬁll gaps

made while repositioning frames.

This is what the SORT Room looks like when you

ﬁrst enter.

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