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## Slideshows

The Portfolio Slideshow feature lets you create slide shows from your catalog images (not thumbnails) that can run automatically—with the images being advanced in specified intervals—or that can be manually advanced.

Portfolio uses the images in the active Gallery for the slide show. The screen is blanked and the images are displayed against the background color of the current Gallery view. You can elect to show images at their actual image size, or to have them scaled up to fit as much of the display screen as possible. (If an item is too big for the screen, it is automatically scaled down.)

When locating items for a Slideshow, if a disk preview is available, it will be displayed. If no disk preview is found and the source file cannot be found, the item thumbnail is displayed.

You can also have the slide show run automatically (Catalog > Administration... > Startup tab) when Portfolio is launched; in this case the last-saved Slideshow Options are used.

Using slideshow control buttons you can control automatically timed slideshows, manually run slideshows, and perform sorting and previewing tasks using Record Controls.

To set up a Slideshow:

1. Choose Slideshow Options... from the Catalog menu or press Command+Option+S (Mac OS) or Ctrl+Shift+S (Windows).

2. Select the desired settings, then click “OK.”

To run a Slideshow:

1. Configure a Gallery window with the items you would like to be displayed in the slide show, and arrange the items in the order in which you want them to be shown.

   You can show still images, 3D images, movies, and sounds. Anything that can be previewed in Portfolio can be displayed in the slide show.

2. Choose Slideshow from the Catalog menu, or press Command+S (Mac OS) or Ctrl+S (Windows).

3. For manually run slide shows, click the arrows on the controller to move to the next or previous item.

   Click the first/last arrows to move to the beginning or the end of the show.

4. Timed slideshows begin automatically, but you can stop and start the presentation (perhaps to elaborate or answer questions) and restart using the pause button on the mini-controller.

   If the Slideshow is not on “Continuous Loop” it will end when the last item has been displayed.

5. To stop the slideshow and return to the Gallery window, press the Stop button.

   Note: When using a timed delay, images do not start loading until after the delay period. This means that (depending upon system parameters) with a delay of 4 seconds, a small image might show up in 4 to 4-1/2 seconds, while a large image might take longer.

Tip: You can close the Slideshow controller and use the following keyboard shortcuts to run your Slideshow. This allows you to run the show with nothing on the screen but the images.

Action | Keyboard Shortcut
Quit Slideshow | Esc
Previous Item | Page Up
Next Item | Page Down
Last Item | End
First Item | Home

Hiding the controller: You can hide the controller in both automatic and manual mode by clicking it’s Close Box, then use the keyboard commands to run the Slideshow.

Display Field: Portfolio 5.0 allows you to specify a field to be displayed along with the image in slideshows. This option is available on the Slideshow Options dialog.

Transition Effects on Export (Mac OS): When you export a Slideshow as a QuickTime movie (Mac OS), you can add from QuickTime’s built-in transition capabilities to enhance your movie. To use transitions, QuickTime must be installed and the Transitions option selected on the Export QuickTime Movies dialog. Transition settings can be changed using the Edit button on the Export QuickTime Movies dialog. Edit options rely on and use QuickTime internal technology. That is, they are controlled by QuickTime, not Portfolio.

See also:

Slideshow Overview

Slideshow Controls

Slideshow Options