Hi,
I don't use them designer...but if you load one set of Image/videos then create your theme, prodcuce under a related names/directory, you can then import those into a timeline as a video.
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Hi Joel -

Once you start using Theme Designer, you'll find it's pretty flexible in lots of ways (given that they're templates).

If you feel inclined to mix & match different styles, it's easy enough to do.

Try this scenario - you have three folders, each containing videos & photos and you want to apply a different TD template to each folder.
1. Open TD, select (say) "Notepad", import the media in folder 1
2. Insert the videos and photos where you want, adding extra pages if you need.
3. OK > return to timeline
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4. Place scrubber at end of "Notepad" presentation
5. Go to TD again - remove all media from library
6. Select (say) "Beach" import the media in folder 2
7. Insert the videos and photos where you want, adding extra pages if you need.
8. OK > return to timeline
-------------------------------------------------------------------
9. Place scrubber at end of "Beach" presentation
10. Go to TD again - remove all media from library
11. Select (say) "Postcards" import the media in folder 3
12. Insert the videos and photos where you want, adding extra pages if you need.
13. OK > return to timeline
------------------------------------------------------------------ etc.etc. etc.
OR

Whatever theme you've selected in TD, when you go to add more pages you can select them from any of the theme templates... so that creates a mix & match in one operation.

You'd almost certainly want to ditch the audio and give the whole thing a consistent music bed... and maybe do something with transitions when the style is changing.

Here's a great tutorial on using Theme Designer in PD12 - http://youtu.be/51TSh4t0TG0 - a good starting point.

Cheers - Tony
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thanks ynotfish...I have it going now...but I do have one follow-up question...how do I change the length of time each picture is shown? I'm starting off with "Memory Fields" but each pic is only shown for about 1 second and I can't find where to change the length...the video's I inserted play fine and are the correct length
Thanks

Joel

Hi Joel -

Even though I said "pretty flexible", the flexibility doesn't stretch that far. That timing (apart from the designated video slots) is fixed. To my knowledge there's nothing we can do about it in Theme Designer.

As a workaround - after producing, you could use Power Tools > Video Speed on the image-only sections (split). I just tried it in a small section & it works fine.

Cheers - Tony
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I'll give it a shot...thanks!
Thanks

Joel

Hi Joel - and anyone else who cares -

After your initial post, I started fiddling round in Theme Designer to see what (if any) pitfalls I could find in mixing and matching parts of different templates.

Well - it all went smoothly. You could certainly argue that some of the "themes" just don't work together visually! I was surprised how easy it was to edit the thing both in TD & back in the timeline (split/remove etc).

Here's what I came up with. All very doable.



Cheers - Tony
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