Set media item properties

Properties window allows customizing specific image, video or flash media options.

  • For image files you can customize image text label (to be displayed on the image), image position and size, image duration, mask and transition effect.
  • For video files you can customize video position and size.
  • For flash files you can customize flash position and size, and flash duration.

What would you like to do?

To set image text label

To set image text label

  1. In Properties window select the Label tab.
  2. Select label position on screen.
  3. Select label spacing in pixels from screen edge.
  4. Select font foreground and background colors.
  5. Check Transparent if you don't want background color to be displayed.
  6. Check Antialiased if you want smooth font edges.
  7. Check Shadow if you want text to have shadow effect.
  8. Click Font button to change font, font style and font size.
  9. Enter image caption in the Text field.

Customize image, video or flash size and position

To customize image, video or flash size and position

  1. In Properties window select Size & Position tab.
  2. Set the media size and position.

Customize image duration, mask or sound effect

To customize image duration, mask or sound effect

  1. In Properties window select Image tab.
  2. Change Duration if you want it to differ from default image duration.
  3. Select Image Masking to add cool masking effect to image. Any Windows bitmap file can be used as image mask and there are some sample masks included.
  4. Select Sound File to add cool masking effect to image. You can use any WAV, MP3 or MIDI sound file and there are some samples included.

Customize image transition effect

To customize image transition effect

  1. In Properties window select the Transition Effects tab.
  2. Enable option Use effects other than default.
  3. Specify transition effects for the selected image.

Customize flash duration

To customize flash duration

  1. In Properties window select Flash tab.
  2. Select Play whole animation or set custom animation duration in seconds.