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Theme Designer Questions.... still
mrmusic [Avatar]
Newbie Joined: Oct 06, 2009 12:44 Messages: 41 Offline
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Thanks to someone here at the Forum, I've learned a bit about the theme designer aspect of PD 12. It seems that using it is the only way you can get a theme to use ALL THE PICTURES on a time-line. I've also discovered that if you have more pictures to use than a theme allows, you can just add more theme "pages". .... (IS THAT CORRECT ???)That being said, my specific question is, how do you CHANGE THE LENGTH of the newly created theme design. I had 64 pictures, and it's taking about 7 minutes to see the finished product. Frankly, with some of the theme pages "changing" so slowly, it makes the entire presentation a bit of a boring event. If I try to change the time by dragging the right end of the finished product on the time line, it just cuts it off, rather than shortening it's running time.

Also, I notice that when you pick a template within Theme Designer, not all the themes are available (that are found within Magic Style) to use when you design your theme. Is this a bug... or is this just the way it is???

One more thing... it would sure be nice if when you used a picture from the library on the left side of the screen in theme designer, it would someway MARK the picture as having been used. With multiple pages it's really hard to remember when you have lots of pictures, and aren't using them in the order as they sit in the "library"

OK... so we have a tool called "THEME DESIGNER" ... to my thinking, it's pretty limited if you cant change the length of the theme you are designing.

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jerrys
Senior Contributor Location: New Britain, CT, USA (between New York and Boston) Joined: Feb 10, 2010 21:36 Messages: 1038 Offline
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I'm glad I ran across your post, because it sounds like I've been running into the same problems you were. I'm still fumbling with the scene designer, trying to control durations and zooms for individual stills.

I'm using the "Gallery" theme, and one issue is that the opening "clip" uses many more pictures than I want and does a quick pan of the room. What I'd really like to accomplish is to open the show with zoomed version of two or three specific shots, and that doesn't seem possible without putting something else in front of the opening.

I've got a lot to learn about this.

Also, I second your wish for the theme designer to keep track of which images have been used and which haven't. I've got about 100 pictures, and what with adding sequences and moving them around it's very easy to get confused and lose your place. Jerry Schwartz
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