Working together on an e-show

Sometimes, e-shows are created by a team. For example, a different person may be responsible for creating each section of an e-show. Alive e-Show makes this easy by encoding your media clips to RealMedia and saving them with the e-show. This allows everyone working on the e-show to preview or publish without error.

Unless others have direct access to the original media clips, they will not be able to re-record portions of the clip. However, even if they do not have access, they will be able to set transition times, add closed captions, publish the e-show, and create new sections.

When the media clips are encoded and saved is up to you. You can do this every time you save the e-show or when you publish or preview it. By default, the media clips are saved during publishing or previewing process.

To encode and save the media clips when you save the e-show

1. From the Tools menu, choose Options.

   The Tools Options dialog box is displayed.

2. Check the Convert media to RealMedia when saving box.

You should check Convert media to RealMedia when saving, if you plan to share e-show documents using the following methods:

• e-mail
• Lotus Notes
• any groupware application where the e-show document can be sent around

It is unnecessary to check Convert media to RealMedia when saving if you plan to share e-show documents using the following methods:

• putting them in a shared folder
• having multiple people use the same computer

Note

• The media clip will only be encoded when it is new or when it has been modified.