Wizardware's Presentation Magic Installation: Click on FILE on the Program Manager. Select RUN... Enter X:\SETUP in the edit box then click on OK. (X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.) Follow the instructions on the screen. Wizardware's Presentation Magic provides tools and supplies for your multimedia presentations. Presentation Magic has many elements, from Video Show Assistant, a multimedia presentation manager, to TrueType Attaché Lite, a TrueType font manager. If the audio breaks up when running a show, use the DRIVERS Applet from the Control Panel. Double Click on [mci] Sound. Increase the buffers to MAX. This should solve the problem. Presentation Magic has all of the following items on the CD-ROM: Video Show Assistant This high performance presentation manager allows you to create your own Multimedia shows. Video Show Assistant can combine Pictures, Audio Clips, Animations, and Video into a computer based presentation. Pictures can be loaded from different image file formats. If you have a 256 color display driver, BMP, GIF, PCX, and 8 Bit TIFF files can be loaded. Machines with display drivers that support 32,000 or more colors can also load TGA files in addition to 24 bit TIFF and BMP images. Video Show Assistant can play animations in the FLI or FLC file formats. WAV audio files can be used for presentations. Images can be set to change while an audio clip is playing, or wait for the audio stops before going to the next. AVI Video can also be played by Video Show Assistant. Presentation Magic includes drivers for this video format, which may be installed when Presentation Magic is set up. On Line help and a short tutorial are available to get you up and running quickly. Video Titler Lite Whether you are creating a video and need titles, or are creating a presentation that uses a lot of text, Video Titler Lite can handle the job. Video Titler Lite creates text 'On the fly' so that you don't have to create an image file for each slide. Video Titler Lite can use its transitions on both the text and image files, easily creating dynamic presentations. Video Titler Lite creates text using selectable character attributes, such as drop shadows, borders, and 3D extruded edges. VGA to NTSC cards really shine when used with Video Titler Lite. Unlike other Windows applications, Video Titler Lite's titles are optimized for video use. It will give you some of the cleanest recordings possible under Windows. Images in both BMP and GIF formats can be used as backgrounds for the titles. Since Video Titler Lite uses Truetype fonts, it supports virtually any font that can be installed in Windows. TrueType Attaché Lite TrueType Attaché provides an easy way to deal with TrueType fonts in the Windows environment. This helpful utility allows you to see samples of TrueType font files on screen with a click of the mouse. Installing and removing fonts from the system is also accomplished quickly and easily with TrueType Attaché. In order to keep better track of the fonts in your system, TrueType Attaché can print out font samples of any installed font. Slide Show Viewer Presentation Magic contains 200 images which can be used as part of your presentations. Slide Show Viewer offers 6 different shows which allow you to see all of the images on the disk. Shows are played using Video Show Assistant, so this is a good place to get a feel for some of Video Show Assistant's capabilities. Registration If you don't run any of the other programs on this CD-ROM, please run this one. Registration asks you for your name and address, and prints your registration card to your printer or to a text file. The registration can be mailed or faxed to us, whichever you prefer. Registering your program helps us to keep you informed of new products as they develop. In addition, Registration collects some information about your system, such as the number of colors that it supports, whether you have a math coprocessor, and the processor type. This information will help us to make new products which take the best advantage of the hardware that our customers have, not just lowest common denominator guesses. Images Presentation Magic contains 200 images that can be used for your presentations. The images are stored in subdirectories of the \IMAGES directory. All of the images are stored in both BMP and GIF 256 color formats. The GIF images are in the \IMAGES\GIF directory, and the BMP images are in the \IMAGES\BMP directory. TrueType Fonts 200 TrueType fonts are included on Presentation Magic. TrueType Attaché can be used to install and remove these fonts from your system. Once installed, these fonts can be used by any Windows application that supports TrueType fonts, not just the applications on this CD-ROM. The TrueType fonts are all stored in the \FONTS directory on the CD-ROM. Autodesk Animator Fonts Another unique feature of Presentation Magic is a collection of over 100 fonts for Autodesk multimedia products. These fonts are compatible with Autodesk Animator, Autodesk Animator Pro, and Multimedia Explorer. The fonts are all derived from Entropy Engineering's line of VideoFonts. Because of this, the fonts record clearly to video tape, without the color shifts and distortions found in other fonts. To use the Autodesk compatible fonts, simply select the Load Font feature and specify the \AAFONTS path on your CD-ROM drive as the place to load the fonts from. If you prefer, you can also copy the fonts into your Animator directory. Presidio PC Animate Plus Fonts Presentation Magic has more than 100 fonts that are compatible with Presidio's PC Animate Plus animation package. PC Animate Plus is bundled with some Creative Labs products, such as the Sound Blaster 16, so you may already have a copy. The fonts are all derived from Entropy Engineering's line of VideoFonts. Because of this, the fonts record clearly to video tape, without the color shifts and distortions found in other fonts. Follow the directions for loading and using fonts that came with your copy of PC Animate Plus. The PC Animate Plus compatible fonts are stored in the \PCAFONTS directory on this CD-ROM. For more information, contact: Wizardware, Ltd. 918 Delaware Avenue Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA Phone: 800-548-7969 Fax: 215-691-8258 ---end---