FOTOMAGICO 5 TUTORIAL VIDEO MAC OS
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You can also select all images from the Edit menu.

I then click the Timeline icon above the bottom toolbar because I prefer to work in that view, and then click on any image, then hit Command and the A key on my keyboard to select all images. Once I’ve checked the Animation Settings, I generally insert all of the images I want to include in the slideshow. With Alternate selected, if one slide is set to gradually zoom in on the image, the following slide will zoom out, and then repeat this pattern for all following images. What this essentially does is alternates the Zoom affect that is automatically applied to your slides when you add them to the slideshow. The rest of the options are probably self-explanatory, but the important thing, at least for my taste, is that the pulldown for the Horizontal, Square, and Vertical Images options is set to Alternate. It would be nice if this could be set to a specific length, but with just slow to fast and no seconds displayed, this slider is pretty useless. We’ll set the slide length manually in a moment so you can ignore the Animation Speed slider. Once FotoMagico is open, I recommend selecting Animation Assistant under the Slideshow menu and confirm that your settings are in line with your expectations.

For the format, I selected 16:9, and the grayed-out words 3840px x 2160px (4K UHD) appeared to the right of the Format selection pulldown. Then I entered the title Complete Namibia 2022, and my name is already saved as the Author. After starting FotoMagico, and applying the most recent updates, we are now presented with a new dialog. New Media Browser (beta)Īll of the videos were shot handheld, and some of the footage needed to be stabilized, but I also waited to see which video clips I would use before taking the time necessary to stabilize it. I’ll talk more about options for music later. If you are not going to share your slideshow publicly, i.e., it’s just for private use, you could also enable the Music App to look for your background music, but if you are going to post your video online, you need to steer clear of using any music that you downloaded from Apple Music, etc. I left just the Photos App checkbox turned on. Some of the videos were in the Apple Photos app as well, as I shot them on my iPhone, so in the FotoMagico Preferences, under the Libraries tab, I turned on the New Media Browser which is currently still in beta. Then I went back to my original shoot folders and started to select the various videos that I wanted to include. I exported my 320 images into an images folder inside a folder that I called Namibia_2022_Slideshow. If you resize your images to 4K resolution, you can’t zoom in on them without the image quality degrading. This allows me to zoom in on parts of the images and pan around them etc. Note too, though, that I generally don’t resize my images for the slideshow. Note too that FotoMagico will use just about any image type with any color space, so for ultimate image quality, you might want to go with Photoshop PSD or TIFF files, but I like to use uncompressed JPEG files, as it makes FotoMagico lighter to use, and reviewing your slideshow as you build it can be a little smoother. Still, on occasion, I build out an image using variations, and so to start with, I want to see all images at my disposal. I don’t intend to use all of them, and this initial selection does include some groups of similar images, which I generally will only need one photo of.

FOTOMAGICO 5 TUTORIAL VIDEO SOFTWARE

In preparation for starting to build my slideshow, I opened Capture One Pro, my raw processing and asset management software of choice, and I selected all 320 of the images that I selected from my Namibia images. FotoMagico was the obvious choice, and they have made some nice changes over the years, but in essence, just a very easy way to make powerful slideshows.

FOTOMAGICO 5 TUTORIAL VIDEO MAC OS

I’ve been using FotoMagico for many years since I switched to the Mac OS full-time in 2010, as my old slideshow software was for Windows, and I needed a good Mac alternative. I’ve spent some time over the last week building a slideshow of images and videos from my Complete Namibia Tour 2022, and today share some of the main things you might want to keep in mind when using Boinx Software’s FotoMagico 6 to build slideshows of your own.

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