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Wizardware's Presentation Magic
Installation:
Click on FILE on the Program Manager. Select RUN...
Enter X:\SETUP in the edit box then click on OK.
(X is the drive letter of your CD-ROM drive.)
Follow the instructions on the screen.
Wizardware's Presentation Magic provides tools and supplies for your multimedia
presentations. Presentation Magic has many elements, from Video Show Assistant, a
multimedia presentation manager, to TrueType AttachΘ Lite, a TrueType font manager.
If the audio breaks up when running a show, use the DRIVERS Applet from the
Control Panel. Double Click on [mci] Sound. Increase the buffers to MAX. This
should solve the problem.
Presentation Magic has all of the following items on the CD-ROM:
Video Show Assistant
This high performance presentation manager allows you to create your own
Multimedia shows. Video Show Assistant can combine Pictures, Audio Clips,
Animations, and Video into a computer based presentation.
Pictures can be loaded from different image file formats. If you have a 256 color
display driver, BMP, GIF, PCX, and 8 Bit TIFF files can be loaded. Machines with display
drivers that support 32,000 or more colors can also load TGA files in addition to 24 bit
TIFF and BMP images.
Video Show Assistant can play animations in the FLI or FLC file formats.
WAV audio files can be used for presentations. Images can be set to change while an
audio clip is playing, or wait for the audio stops before going to the next.
AVI Video can also be played by Video Show Assistant. Presentation Magic includes
drivers for this video format, which may be installed when Presentation Magic is set up.
On Line help and a short tutorial are available to get you up and running quickly.
Video Titler Lite
Whether you are creating a video and need titles, or are creating a presentation that
uses a lot of text, Video Titler Lite can handle the job. Video Titler Lite creates text 'On
the fly' so that you don't have to create an image file for each slide. Video Titler Lite
can use its transitions on both the text and image files, easily creating dynamic
presentations.
Video Titler Lite creates text using selectable character attributes, such as drop
shadows, borders, and 3D extruded edges. VGA to NTSC cards really shine when used
with Video Titler Lite. Unlike other Windows applications, Video Titler Lite's titles are
optimized for video use. It will give you some of the cleanest recordings possible under
Windows.
Images in both BMP and GIF formats can be used as backgrounds for the titles. Since
Video Titler Lite uses Truetype fonts, it supports virtually any font that can be installed in
Windows.
TrueType AttachΘ Lite
TrueType AttachΘ provides an easy way to deal with TrueType fonts in the Windows
environment. This helpful utility allows you to see samples of TrueType font files on
screen with a click of the mouse. Installing and removing fonts from the system is also
accomplished quickly and easily with TrueType AttachΘ.
In order to keep better track of the fonts in your system, TrueType AttachΘ can print
out font samples of any installed font.
Slide Show Viewer
Presentation Magic contains 200 images which can be used as part of your
presentations. Slide Show Viewer offers 6 different shows which allow you to see all of
the images on the disk. Shows are played using Video Show Assistant, so this is a good
place to get a feel for some of Video Show Assistant's capabilities.
Registration
If you don't run any of the other programs on this CD-ROM, please run this one.
Registration asks you for your name and address, and prints your registration card to
your printer or to a text file.
The registration can be mailed or faxed to us, whichever you prefer. Registering your
program helps us to keep you informed of new products as they develop. In addition,
Registration collects some information about your system, such as the number of colors
that it supports, whether you have a math coprocessor, and the processor type. This
information will help us to make new products which take the best advantage of the
hardware that our customers have, not just lowest common denominator guesses.
Images
Presentation Magic contains 200 images that can be used for your presentations. The
images are stored in subdirectories of the \IMAGES directory. All of the images are
stored in both BMP and GIF 256 color formats. The GIF images are in the \IMAGES\GIF
directory, and the BMP images are in the \IMAGES\BMP directory.
TrueType Fonts
200 TrueType fonts are included on Presentation Magic. TrueType AttachΘ can be
used to install and remove these fonts from your system. Once installed, these fonts
can be used by any Windows application that supports TrueType fonts, not just the
applications on this CD-ROM. The TrueType fonts are all stored in the \FONTS directory
on the CD-ROM.
Autodesk Animator Fonts
Another unique feature of Presentation Magic is a collection of over 100 fonts for
Autodesk multimedia products. These fonts are compatible with Autodesk Animator,
Autodesk Animator Pro, and Multimedia Explorer.
The fonts are all derived from Entropy Engineering's line of VideoFonts. Because of this,
the fonts record clearly to video tape, without the color shifts and distortions found in
other fonts.
To use the Autodesk compatible fonts, simply select the Load Font feature and specify
the \AAFONTS path on your CD-ROM drive as the place to load the fonts from. If you
prefer, you can also copy the fonts into your Animator directory.
Presidio PC Animate Plus Fonts
Presentation Magic has more than 100 fonts that are compatible with Presidio's PC
Animate Plus animation package. PC Animate Plus is bundled with some Creative Labs
products, such as the Sound Blaster 16, so you may already have a copy.
The fonts are all derived from Entropy Engineering's line of VideoFonts. Because of this,
the fonts record clearly to video tape, without the color shifts and distortions found in
other fonts.
Follow the directions for loading and using fonts that came with your copy of PC
Animate Plus. The PC Animate Plus compatible fonts are stored in the \PCAFONTS
directory on this CD-ROM.
For more information, contact:
Wizardware, Ltd.
918 Delaware Avenue
Bethlehem, PA 18015 USA
Phone: 800-548-7969
Fax: 215-691-8258
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