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Online Manual Sound PostCard 1.0 Online Manual Overview Program interface Basic definitions The user's guide 1. Quick start 2. Elements of movie skin 3. Using property editor 4. Using mouse to edit movie skin 5. Basic operations  5.1 Create new skin  5.2 Save skin to a file  5.3 Open existing skin  5.4 Preview movie skin  5.5 Create movie in Macromedia Flash format  5.6 View result  5.7 Record voice message  5.8 Create HTML code Overview Sound Postcard is intended to convert sound message to Macromedia Flash movie, which may additionally contain elements to control sound playback, such as play, stop and pause buttons along with progress bar and background image. Together all these elements form sound postcard that can be embedded on the web page or sent via e-mail. This program can be used to create sound postcards, music demo singles, to create sound enriched educational programs or web sites. Created movies can be placed in HTML, Word, Excel and other types of documents, published in the Internet or included into e-mail message. The program also allows you to record the voice message from a microphone and place the message into a postcard via single button click. No other additional software required. All you need to create a postcard in Macromedia Flash format is the only Sound Postcard software. The Sound Postcard is ideal for creating sound enriched documents to be published in the Internet or transmitted via network, because it allows a sound to be streamed via network. This means that sound message is downloaded and played back at the same time and your users don't need to wait while the whole file to be copied on their computers. This is perfect solution for publishing music demos or speeches in a network. Want to congratulate your friend? Or publish your speech in the Internet? Maybe music single? Need really optimal format for your sound message with streaming over network? No problems. With Sound Postcard all this is just a fingertip away. Basic definitions The software output is movie in Macromedia Flash format, which is also referred to as SWF format. Everywhere below we will use SWF format abbreviation. This movie is the sound postcard itself. Sound postcard elements are sound message, background image and player controls (play, stop and pause). All these elements are encoded into resulting SWF movie by the Sound Postcard software. Background image and player controls form movie definition also called movie skin. The movie skin can be applied to any number of sound files or/and voice messages, allowing user to create postcards that look similar but have different sound messages encoded in them. Movie skin can be saved to a file and can be used later immediately to create postcards or as template to create new skins. Program interface Software interface consists of main window and several dialog boxes. The main program window is divided into five parts listed below: 1. Main menu 2. Tree of movie elements 3. Property editor 4. Skin editor working area 5. Main toolbar 1 Quick start 1) Start the program 2) By default the program starts with empty movie skin opened 3) Now you can either open an existing skin file by pressing Open button on the main program toolbar or create a new skin 4) If you chose to create new skin navigate through the main movie elements tree and fill all necessary properties using property editor. You can also use skin editor located below the property grid to edit the skin using mouse 5) While changing skin properties you can immediately preview changes in the skin editor working area 6) Now you are ready to generate SWF movie, just press Run button on the main toolbar and movie will be generated in several seconds depending on your computer speed 7) After movie has been generated you can view the result using Preview button on the main software toolbar 8) Additionally you can save skin to a file for later use by pressing Save button 9) If you want to record your own voice message just press Record button to open sound recorder. After recording completed the software will automatically convert and place the recorded message into a movie 2 Elements of movie skin Movie skin consists of several groups of elements. The groups are displayed on the left pane of the software namely tree of movie elements. When you activate a group by clicking it, property editor on the right pane displays properties of the group. To expand/collapse tree nodes use plus icon on the left side of a tree node. You can also use keyboard to navigate the tree, in this case you should use Enter to display properties of a highlighted group. Below are groups of movie skin elements: Files. This group contains names of input and output files. Main form. This group is responsible for movie size and background image. Buttons. This group contains definitions for play, stop and pause buttons. All buttons have similar structure and consist of three pictures (one image for every button state). Progress. This group allows to define progress bar, which indicates current position in sound message and allows to change the position. Progress bar consists of two elements: progress box image and progress step image. 3 Using property editor Property editor resides on top part of the main window right pane. Every field displayed in the editor has two columns: property name and property value. Properties are divided into several types listed below. Picture property. You can specify path to a picture file in two ways: manually and using file browser. To edit a picture property manually just activate it by clicking it with a mouse and type a path in the edit box. There is also [...] button on the right side of the property, you can use this button to launch file browser and locate picture file. Number property. Similarly, there are two ways to specify value for this type of property: manually and using spin button. After activating a number property you can either type a value in the edit box or use spin on the right side of the box to increase or decrease the value. Color property. You should use [...] button on the right side of a color property to launch color picker and specify a color. To apply changes made using property editor and refresh skin editor working area you must press Enter after changing some property value. Changes are also applied automatically when a property is deactivated and input focus moves to other property or interface element. 4 Using mouse to edit movie skin You can use mouse to change size and position of skin elements visually. To do this select some element in the skin editor working area and use mouse to change it's size or position just the way you do it in any other graphics editor. 5 Basic operations 5.1 Create new skin To create new skin filled with default values click New Player button on the main toolbar. Alternatively you can use File->New item in the main menu. 5.2 Save skin to a file To save skin to a file click Save Player button on the main toolbar. Alternatively you can use File->Save item in the main menu. If the skin is new and has no name assigned you will be prompted to name the skin. To copy existing skin and assign the copy new name use File->Save As command in the main menu. 5.3 Open existing skin To open existing skin click Open Player button on the main toolbar. Alternatively you can use File->Open item in the main menu. 5.4 Preview movie skin To preview movie skin and test behavior of player buttons and progress bar use Test Player button on the main toolbar or Action->Test Player Controls main menu item. Sound message is not played in preview mode. 5.5 Create movie in Macromedia Flash format To convert sound message to SWF format and create postcard use Build Player button on the main toolbar or Action->Build main menu command. To create postcard you must fill both MP3 file and Result file fields in Files group. When MP3 file filed is empty or Always use sound file below field contains No in it you will be prompted to locate MP3 file, containing the message to be converted, every time you issue build operation. If you fill MP3 file with valid file path and specify Yes in Always use sound file below, the software will use specified path for every next build operation. Fields Result file and Always save result to the file below are used similarly to specify path to a result SWF file. 5.6 View result To view created postcard click View Result SWF button on the main toolbar. Alternatively you can use Action->View Result SWF item in the main menu. 5.7 Record voice message To record your own sound message use Record Soundtrack button on the main toolbar or Action->Record Sound Track main menu item. This opens recorder dialog box. Use record, stop and play buttons in the dialog to record and preview your sound message. Press Ok button in the dialog box to put recorded message into a skin. Cancel button discards recorded message. 5.8 Create HTML code To create HTML code to be placed on a web page use Generate HTML button on the main toolbar or Action->Generate HTML main menu item. This opens HTML Editor dialog box containing HTML code for created postcard. You can just copy and paste the code to place created postcard on a web page. Alternatively you can save the code to a file using Save button in the dialog box.

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