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"The Player" offers standard playback controls for viewing your entire movie, or only specific sections. If you want

to view your movie in its entirety, click "Entire Movie." Easy, right? Told you so. Then just click "Play" and see all

the content you worked so hard to put on the Storyboard come to life in the preview window. If you only want to

view a specific piece of your movie, click "Active Clip." Then, click the thumbnail on the Storyboard that you want

to preview. Follow that by clicking "Play" and you'll see the section playback in the window.

So, how does your movie look? Pretty bad? Don't worry, we're only getting started. You still get to organize and

edit the content, add special effects, and more. Now's a good time to take a break if you haven't done so already.

Maybe you can go outside and shoot some more cool video or take some rockin' photos. The next sections will

show you how to rearrange content on the Storyboard, edit photos and videos, and... drumroll please... use the

TIMELINE to add audio, text, and special effects to your video.

MODIFYING CONTENT

So far, the focus has revolved around adding content. However, most of the fun comes from organizing everything

in a cool way to make a real stand-out video. When you're using the Storyboard, it's incredibly easy to rearrange

things. This is because things are segregated nicely; it's easy to differentiate the different content. The Timeline

offers a more complex view, thus making it more difficult to organize things.

REARRANGING PHOTOS & VIDEOS

Basically, you can rearrange photos and videos on the Storyboard by clicking and dragging any thumbnail to a

new location. Yeah, that's it. Told you it was easy.

SWAPPING TRANSITIONS

Changing transitions a little different. When you click-and-drag one transition over another, the one that you

clicked and dragged simply replaces the one that it lands on. In effect, transitions aren't shuffled inasmuch as they

simply replace each other when one is dragged over another. Don't forget to save your project!

EDITING STILL IMAGES - DISPLAY TIME, COLOR, ETC.

You may have noticed that when you previewed your movie, still images were displayed for a set amount of time

before moving along to the next component on the Storyboard. Well, you have full control over the display time for

each individual photo. All you need to do is click the photo on the Storyboard, and then modify the duration in the

area to the left of the preview area:

You can specify the hours, minutes, seconds,

and frames that you want the photo displayed.

You can do this for each photo.

If you want the same display time for each

preceding image, right-click the thumbnail that

you just modified and choose "Apply Duration

to All Following."

Keep your eyes on the image above. Notice that there are various sliders for Brightness, Contrast, etc. Feel free

to modify these sliders to enhance the photo. You can see the effects of your changes by looking at the photo in

the Player. At any time, you can click "Restore" to undo all the changes you made (basically, the sliders will return

to the center default position).

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