Welcome to MediaShow

What is MediaShow

Welcome to MediaShow by CyberLink Corporation and we believe you just made a wise choice.  MediaShow is multi-purpose software that combines multimedia files management, browse, producing, playback, and output together.  The software produces and plays multimedia presentations.  It gives you all necessary tools to create eye-catching and breath-taking multimedia demos.

Working easily with powerful functions

With incredibly powerful functions, CyberLink MediaShow allows you to collect different business graphics, digital photos, family pictures, and video clips together for creating a multimedia show.  The producing step is so simple that even a child can be a skillful user.  Professionals who need to make highly convincing presentations are able to utilize MediaShow as an excellent tool for demonstrating and selling their products and services.

Exploring your talent and creation

CyberLink MediaShow enables you to collect video and audio clips, and images from your precious moments such as weddings, birthdays, anniversaries or travel adventures into multimedia albums for a family or business purpose.  In the producing process, your talent and creation can be fully explored to sort and edit these different media resources.  You will be agreeably surprised to find that you become a master in making multimedia shows when working with MediaShow.

Main Features

System Requirements

Setup Tips


Main Features

CyberLink MediaShow provides you with powerful features described as below:

•	MediaShow integrates various multimedia materials, such as images, video clips, sound effects, audio CDs, animated text, and narration into a video/audio multimedia show.

•	Supports PowerPoint presentation files in two ways. One is to import PowerPoint files directly and play them with the original effects and video clips.  The other is to import them in an image file format and re-edit their special effects.

•	Supports the playback in 20+ categories of image and video file formats, including:

Image File Formats:

•	JPEG and LEAD Compressed (JPG and CMP)

•	TIFF format

•	BMP format

•	Icons and Cursors (ICO and CUR)

•	PCo format (PCo and DCX)

•	Kodak format (PCD )

•	DICOM format (DIC)

•	Exif format (TIFF and JPG)

•	Windows Metafile format (WMF)

•	PhotoShop 3.0 format (PSD)

•	Portable Network Graphics format (PNG)

•	Truevision TARGA format (TGA)

•	Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

•	SUN Raster format (RAS)

•	WordPerfect format (WPG)

•	Macintosh Pict format (PCT)

•	TIFF CCITT and other FAo format

•	LEAD 1-Bit format (CMP)

•	PhotoCD/PortFolio CD playback¡]Using Kodak PCD library¡^

Video Clip Format

•	AVI¡@format

•	MPG format

•	DAT format

•	It can input images from digital cameras supporting TWAIN interface.

•	The user simply clicks the mouse to sequence and change the playback order for enhancing the contents of the presentation.

•	There are 50+ categories of transition effects that draw an audience when playing with multimedia slides.

•	It supports the playback of animated subtitles, making the text description active and attractive.

•	It provides a variety of playback or publishing forms.  In addition to the general presentation playback, the output can be saved as an executable file for stand-alone playback (no need for browser application), as a FLM file (need for a simple browser application), or even a HTML file to publish over the Internet.  Besides, the output can be setup as a screen saver program, Windows Desktop Wallpaper, or be printed out by your printer.

•	By means of Copy and Paste users can exchange its multimedia materials with other applications.

•	Its intuitive user interface along with well organized buttons, menus, sequencers, and control panels give full play to your skill and creation.


System Requirements

Make sure you system meets the following minimum requirements before you install MediaShow to your system.

•	Windows 95/98/NT operating system

•	Pentium CPU¡]recommended Pentium 166 with MMX or higher¡^

•	At least 32 MB RAM

•	25 MB free hard disk space for installing MediaShow


Setup Tips

To keep MediaShow at peak level in transition, text, and audio effects, you have to notice the setups for your hard disk and display card.

Setting up your Hard Disk in DMA Mode

If you notice that film-playing performance is not good or audio and image cannot proceed simultaneously, you had better check the mode of your disk drives.  Enabling DMA mode can enhance the performance for playing multimedia film.  Please go to Control Panel/System/Device Manager and select Disk Drives logo.  Press its Properties button and choose Settings tab to see whether the DMA option has been selected.  If not selected, please mark the check box for DMA.

Setting up the Resolution of your Display Card

The displaying number of your screen colors you choose will also affect multimedia-playing performance.  Generally speaking, the more colors displayed, the closer to the real color.  16-bit color (65,536 colors) is able to display high-quality effects. In the Set Monitor Properties tab, High Color usually stands for 16-bit color.

If you use 1024 X 768 resolution and make playback slower, please change to 800 X 600 when playing the film.


User interface of MediaShow

Basically, the User Interface of MediaShow is used in two different modes, Browse Mode and Edit Mode.  They are elaborated in the following two sections respectively.

Browse Mode

Edit Mode


Browse Mode

When you start to run MediaShow after the installation process, the User Interface in Browse Mode will appear first.  On the User Interface in Browse Mode, the Left Control Panel has auto hidefunction.  It appears as soon as your mouse touches the left side of the Interface and hides again after the mouse move away.  The following figure shows the general description of the User Interface in Browse Mode.

Each part of the User Interface in Browse Mode is described in detail as below:

•	Browse Screen-----The multimedia files will appear on the Browse Screen as stamps immediately after you select them.  You can choose the size of these stamps and drag them into the Sorter for sorting and editing.

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•	Left Control Panel-----It have a variety of control functions, including Show Presentation Film, Save Multimedia Product as Film, Import Multimedia Files, or Export as Film File, etc.  The Control Panel is generally auto hide, but it appears as soon as the mouse move to the left side of the User Interface.

•	Right Tool Bar-----The Right Tool Bar in the right side of the User Interface provides tools to make transition, text, and audio effects.  It also help you view each multimedia stamp on the Browse Screen or change its size.

•	Sorter-----You can drag each multimedia item listed on the Browse Screen into the Sorter, and sort its sequence for playback.

•	Viewer-----The Viewer displays all multimedia items in smaller stamps to indicate their sequence for playback.  You can use the browse button on either side of the Viewer to adjust the playing order.

Left Control Panel

The Left Control Panel can be “auto hide,” making more space on the screen for you to sort and edit files.  There are more than ten buttons on the Left Control Panel that help you produce a presentation.  As soon as your mouse touches each button, it function will be shown on the Description Bar.  Their brief introductions are as follows:

New Film--Creating a new MediaShow film file

Open Film--Open an existing film file (extension filename as .flm)

Save Film--Saving the film file when changing its content

Save Film As--Saving an existing film file to another folder

Import Media--Importing multimedia files on the Browse Screen for browsing and selecting

Export Film--Exporting films as an executable file or a folder  easy to sort or transmit

Switch between Browse/Edit Mode-----Helping you move between Browse Mode and Edit Mode

Show--Playing the multimedia film sorted and edited by you

Print--Printing your selected images (only used in Browse Mode)

Copy--Copying multimedia files on Browse Screen to the clipboard

Paste--Pasting multimedia files on the clipboard to other applications

Stamp Management--Sorting files by name, dimension, and type

Setup--Setting up various functions of MediaShow

On line Help--Calling on line Help for your reference

About--About the version information on CyberLink MediaShow

Exit--Ending the use of MediaShow


Edit Mode

After you put all selected and sorted stamps on the Sorter, you will start the second stage—Edit .  When you double click any stamp on the Sorter, the User Interface in Edit Mode will appear.  In Edit Mode there are all tools for producing transition, text, and audio effects as shown below.

The figure below demonstrates the function of editing text. Similarly, in the Edit Mode you can produce transition and audio effects. The Sliding Timer adjusts the display time in seconds for your selected image.  Details will be described in the next topic, Operating Procedures for MediaShow.


Operating Procedures for MediaShow
Operating Procedures of Making a Multimedia Presentation

The operating procedure for MediaShow is basically divided into four parts: Input (Importing all selected multimedia files), Sort (Organizing the sequence of multimedia items), Edit (Adding transition, text, and audio effects), Output (Playing the final multimedia presentation).  Please follow the steps below to produce your multimedia show with simplicity.  It is also recommended that you try each different procedure to explore your imagination and better understand the various features of MediaShow.

Input (Importing all selected multimedia files)

Sort (Organizing the sequence of multimedia items)

Edit (Adding transition, text, and audio effects)

Output (Playing the final multimedia presentation)


Input (Importing all selected multimedia files)

What Multimedia Files to Import

Firstly, you have to select certain number of multimedia files for producing your presentation.  MediaShow supports the following multimedia file formats:

•	Image Files--including commonly used JPG, CMP, TIF, BMP, ICO, PSD, PNG, TGA, WPG, PCT, RAS, Photo CD, and etc. please refer to Chapter 1 for a complete list¡^

•	PowerPoint Slides--MediaShow can directly import the finished PowerPoint presentation file, retaining the original special effects; or it can import the PowerPoint slide in an image format, re-producing the special effects.

•	Images from digital cameras and scanners--It can import images from digital cameras and  scanners compliable with TWAIN interface.

•	Existing Video Clips--AVI, DAT, MPG

•	Audio Files--It supports WAV, MIDI, and audio CD.

On the MediaShow CD ROM, there are attached multimedia materials such as image, video and audio files for you to practice making a multimedia presentation.  After you are familiar with the operating procedure for MediaShow, you are willing to make a multimedia show through your own creation.

However, being a master in producing multimedia demos requires adequate materials and personal creation.  Naturally, the first prerequisite is to select multimedia materials that can fully convey your message with coherence and style.  Only after choosing suitable materials, can your creation be brought into full play.

How to Import Multimedia Files

1. Move the mouse to the left side of the screen and recall the Control Panel.  Then press the Import Media [image] button, the screen will display a sub-menu.

2. There are three ways for you to import multimedia items:

a. If you select Import Files, the dialog box for Open (Old Files) appears.  Then you can choose multimedia files in your folders.  Certainly you may choose several files or all of them.  After finish choosing, press the Open button and all files chosen by you will be displayed on the Browse Screen.  If you want to preview the content of multimedia images, please check the Preview option and it will be displayed on the Preview Pane.  When importing the PowerPoint files, you can do it in Image File Format by checking the Extract PPT Slides option.  Or you can directly import PPT files by pressing the Open button for retaining their original effects.

b. If you select Import Folders option, the dialog box of Browse for Folder will appear.  It allows you to import all multimedia files in the whole folder.

c. If you select TWAIN Image option, then you can import images compatible with TWAIN Interface, such as from digital cameras and scanners using TWAIN Interface.

3. You can repeat the Step 2 and import all needed multimedia files on your Browse Screen.  Then all imported file stamp are on the Browse Screen for your viewing.

If you have imported many files, you can use the buttons on the Right Tool Bar to browse them.  It helps you view them to change the size of these file stamps.  Now if you find a file on the Browse Screen is not suitable, you can remove it by selecting its stamp and pressing DEL button.  On the other hand, if you wish to add other files, you can repeat the above-mentioned steps.  When you finish selecting, you will see the Browse Screen as above.

Each type of files has a different color edging as follows:¡@¡@

•	Image File--such as jpg, bmp, etc., has a Blue edging.

•	Video File--such as MPG, AVI has a Pink edging.

•	PowerPoint Slide has a Green edging.

After you remove the unsatisfactory files and add some new ones, this ends the first part of the operating procedure.  And then you will start the second stage--Sort.


Sort (Organizing the sequence of multimedia items)

When you enter the Sort stage, you drag the stamps of multimedia files from the Browse Screen into the Sorter and organize their sequence for playback.

Understanding the property of your selected multimedia files in depth will help you organize the playback order and reach the best effect.  You can use the Stamp Management button in the Left Control Panel to classify the multimedia files on the Browse Screen before sorting.

How to Sort Multimedia Files

1. Follow the steps below to classify your multimedia items on your Browse Screen beforehand:

.	Press the Stamp Management button [image] on the Left Control Panel.  Then the following

  sub-menu appears:

      You can select to

(1) Sort by File Name

(2) Sort by File Dimension

(3) Sort by Type¢w¢wDivided into three types as Image, Video, and Slide (PowerPoint file)

2. “Drag and Drop” selected multimedia stamps from the Browse Screen to the Sorter.  Now the number of playing order appears at the top of each stamp.

Sorter lets you re-organize the playing order

On the Sorter pane, you can change any stamp to any sequence you like.  The way is to drag and drop the stamp with your mouse to the position where the number of the order shows.  For example, if you want to exchange the order of No.2 and No. 3 stamps, you simply drag No. 3 stamp on No. 4 stamp and drop it when you see a yellow edging.

Now you will find that No. 2 and No. 3 stamps have already exchanged their order for playback successfully.


Edit (Adding transition, text, and audio effects)

MediaShow provides the following special effects: transition effect, subtitle (animated), sound effect, and aside.  After you complete the stages of Input and Sort, you begin to Edit—Adding transition, text, and audio effects.  The nature of each effect varies and its application may cause very different results.  If these special effects are skillfully utilized, then the presentation will become extremely touched and convincing.  The following are detailed procedures for editing multimedia effects:

How to Edit Transition, Text, and Audio Effects

1. Double click the selected stamp on the Sorter and the User Interface enters in Edit Mode from Browse mode. Then the multimedia file is ready in the Edit Window for you to Edit.

There are three kinds of special effects for you to edit, i.e. transition, text, and audio.  To do this, the Right Tool Bar has three buttons with logos described as: Edit Transition Effect, Edit Text Effect, and Select Audio Effect.  The detailed procedures for each special effect are stated respectively as follows.

Transition Effect

MediaShow can add Transition Effect just before playing the next multimedia file.  Please press the Edit Transition Effect button and the Transition Effect Panel pops up.  Now you can choose any type of transition effect with the mouse and see it on the Preview Pain.  If the selected effect is not satisfactory, you can try others until you are pleased with it.

For example, after trying several transition effects, you feel that “Raining” is most suitable for the slide.  Then you can press OK to adopt it.  Or you can press Cancel to delete it, if you think this slide should have no any transition effect.  Certainly, before you press OK or Cancel, you can press Reset to return to the original screen in Edit Mode.

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Text (Animated) Effect

If you want to add Text (animated) Effect, Please press the Edit Text Effect button.  Then the Text Edit Panel pops up.

The Edit Window becomes Text Edit Area when inputting text.

You can input the text on the Text Edit Area and it will be displayed on that slide.  Press OK to confirm and return to the Edit Window.  If you don’t want to input any text on the slide, just press Cancel and return to the Edit Window.

Now you can see just inputted text in the Edit Window.  Use the mouse to select the text (an edging of dotted line appears) and move it to the position you like best.

Audio Effect

If you wish to add Audio Effect to your slide, please press the Select Audio Effect button.  Now, Audio Effect Panel pops up.

Please press the Audio Source List down-arrow, and you can choose various audio effect sources.  The four options: Continue, No Sound, Audio CD, and From List are described as follows:

n	Continue--Continuing to use the audio effect of last slide (default option)

n	No Sound--Having no any audio effect

n	Audio CD--Using audio CD track as sound effect

n	From List--Using audio effects provided by MediaShow, or adopting other MIDI¡BWAV files.  Add a song by pressing + button, and cancel a song by pressing – button.

Once you input the source of audio effects, you will select specific audio effect files by clicking your mouse.  After selecting them, press OK, and you can use these audio effect files.  If you think a certain slide is not suitable for any audio effect, you may press Cancel button.  Certainly, before you have done any OK or Cancel action, you can press Reset button to return to the original screen in Browse Mode.

After you complete the stage of Edit¢w¢wAdding Transition, Text, and Audio Effects, you will begin to play your multimedia product.


Output (Playing the final multimedia presentation)

Once you finish various edit actions, you will play your selected multimedia files from your Sorter.

Playback

MediaShow will play your film after you press Show button.  You may start playing from any file.  Just select any stamp on your Sorter and press Show button, the playback will begin from that file.   Otherwise, it will start playing at the first stamp.

Output of your presentation

There are five forms for you to Output your presentation.  After you press the Export File button on the Left Control Panel, the following sub-menu will appear to display each of the five output forms:

Each of these five output forms is described as below:

1. Collect.: Saving your multimedia files to a desired folder for your later reference and utilization.

2. Make Executable: Making your presentation as an executable file, which can be viewed without any     browser application.

3. Set Default ScreenSaver: Setting up your film as a default ScreenSaver and automatically playing it when the PC is idle.

4. Make ScreenSaver: Making your film as a Screen Saver file

5. Export HTML Format: Making your presentation in HTML format for output to a website.


Technical Specifications of MediaShow

MediaShow™ is multi-purpose software that combines multimedia files management, browse, producing, playback and output together.  It supports a variety of image and video formats as well as many audio file formats.  If you have digital cameras and scanners compliable with TWAIN interface, you can directly import image files from them.  Besides, MediaShow allows you to input the Microsoft PowerPoint presentation file and fully reserve its playback effects.

And what is more, MediaShow provides simultaneous effects for transition, text and sound, making your demo colorful and marvelous.  Its feature for Copy and Paste lets you share various multimedia files with other applications.  We list the relative technical specifications as follows for your further enjoying MediaShow:

Formats of Input Files

MediaShow suppors the following Image File Formats:

JPEG and LEAD Compressed (JPG and CMP)

BMP Format

Icons and Cursors (ICO and CUR)

PCo Format (PCo and DCX)

Kodak Format (PCD )

DICOM Format (DIC)

Exif Format (TIFF and JPG)

Windows Metafile Format (WMF)

PhotoShop 3.0 Format (PSD)

Portable Network Graphics Format (PNG)

Truevision TARGA Format (TGA)

Encapsulated PostScript (EPS)

SUN Raster Format (RAS)

WordPerfect Format (WPG)

Macintosh Pict Format (PCT)

TIFF CCITT and other FAo Formats

LEAD 1-Bit Format (CMP)

PhotoCD/PortFolio CD playback¡]Using Kodak PCD library¡^

MediaShow supports the following Video File Formats:

AVI¡@ Format

DAT  Format

MPG  Format

MediaShow supports TWAIN interface and it can directly import image files from digital cameras and scanners.

MediaShow supports Microsoft PowerPoint presentation files.

Types of Special Effects

Transition Effects:

Band Push Vertical, Band Push Horizontal, Band Slide Vertical, Band Slide Horizontal, Band Wipe Vertical, Band Wipe Horizontal, Burning, Desalinate, Dissolve (Fine-Grain), Dissolve (Mid-Grain),

Dissolve (Coarse-Grain), Door, Drip up, Drip Down, Drip Left, Drip Right, Fade, Collapse I, Collapse II, Collapse III, No Effect, Page Curl, Page Fold, Swing, Pinwheel, Raining, Push Up, Push Down, Push Left, Push Right, Shutter Up, Shutter Down, Shutter Left, Shutter Right, Slide Up, Slide Down, Slide Left,

Slide Right, Spin Horizontal, Spin Vertical, Swing Up, Swing Down, Swing Left, Swing Right, Transform I, Transform II, Twist Horizontal, Twist Vertical, Wave, Wipe up, Wipe Down, Wipe Left, Wipe Right.

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Animated Text Effect:

Blind Up, Blind Down, Blind Left, Blind Right, Box In, Ellipse Up, Flocking, Group Fly Up, Group Fly Down, Group Fly Left, Group Fly Right, No Effect, Single Fly Up, Single Fly Down, Single Fly Left,

Single Fly Right, Split Horizontal In, Split Vertical In, Swirl In, Slide Up, Slide Down, Slide Left, Slide Right, Wipe Up, Wipe Down, Wipe Left, Wipe Right.

Sound Effects:

Music CD

Midi Music

Wav File

Formats of Output Files

Output File Formats:

EXE Format

FLM Format

HTML Format¡]Publishing as Homepage¡^

SCR File¡]Screen Saver File¡^

Windows Desktop Wallpaper

Data Exchange Forms

Clipboard Form (using Copy and Paste)

Associating with specific Editing Applications


Technical Support from CyberLink

Before you ask CyberLink Corp. for technical support, please first refer to the Manual and On-line Help for more information on your problem.  Secondly, you may contact your local distributor/dealer to seek a possible solution.  If your problem still cannot be solved, the following sections are several ways for you to obtain technical support:

Website support

Many of the solutions to your problems are available 24 hours a day on our Websites homebased in Taiwan, USA, or Japan:

www.cyberlink.com.tw

www.cyberlink-usa.com

www.cli.co.jp

You may easily find out the answers to your questions in the FAQ section of the Websites.  In addition to frequently asked questions, we also provide troubleshooting techniques, latest product news, and other relevant information on our Websites.

E-mail/Fax Support

To answer your technical questions most effectively and quickly, please send e-mail or fax to our Technical Support Department:

E-mail Address:

Service@cyberlink.com.tw

Fax Number:

886-2-8667-1300

Note: Technical support is only offered to registered users, so please make sure your CD-Key is ready in your e-mail or fax.

Telephone Support

Users are welcome to call up Technical Support Department of CyberLink Corp.  Phone support hours are Monday-Friday, 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Taiwan local time, excluding holidays.  When calling for support, please be at your computer and provide us with the following information:

•	Your registered CD-Key

•	Product Version Number

•	The hardware type you use

•	Any message displayed on your screen

•	What the problem is, what you are doing, and when that problem happened

•	How will you solve the problem

•	Technical Support Phone: 866-2-8667-1298

Note: Technical support is only offered to registered users, so please make sure your CD-Key is ready when calling.