Chapter 18: Create an audio-enhanced Slideshow
Create an audio-enhanced Slideshow!

With DigiBook® 2005, you can easily create a slideshow with your own music. Not only to enjoy on your PC, you can burn the slideshow on a CD or a DVD to share with others.

 
Play Slideshow with a background music
 
   
(1) Add background music to your album
For your slideshow to play audio while running, audio file needs to be imported to an album first.

Simply drag & drop a supported audio file anywhere outside an image on a spread page of an album.
Learn more about adding audio to an album>>
 
(2) Right click on a back of an album or anywhere on a spreadpage outside the frame to open a Menu Sheet. Click [Slideshow] > [View Slideshow...].
 

(3) Modify settings for your slideshow in a Slideshow Settings window.

1. Slideshow Interval(seconds)
Set the slideshow interval to the number of seconds that should elapse before the next slide.

2. Loop
Check this box if you wish to keep playing slideshow continuously.

3. Screen Effect
Check this box to enable the transition effect between slides.

4. Display Control Panel
Check this box to display Control Panel.

 

5. BGM
Make sure this checked box is checked. If unchecked, your slideshow will not play an audio.

6. Random
If this is checked, images in the slideshow will be displayed in a random order.

7. Display Text if Exist
Check this box to display texts added to images in an album. You can change the font size or color of the texts by clicking the [Font] button.

8. Play Sound if Exist
Check this box to enable an audio added to an 'Image'. A background music will play throughout the slideshow while an audio added to an Image will play only when the specific image is shown.

9. Adjust Small Image to Screen
If this is checked, all the images will be displayed at a size to cover the whole screen.

10. Tile
Images will be displayed tiled to cover the whole screen.

Click [Start] to start the slideshow once you are content with the settings.

 
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Extra Tip: Burn your slideshow to a CD or a DVD to share!

Required program:
DigiBook® v.10 Standard/Pro
DigiBook® 2005(v.11) Pro/Pro Trial

Freeware users: Update DigiBook® 2005 Freeware to Pro Trial(14days)
Upgrade your Freeware to DigiBook® 2005 Pro >>

 
 
*Slideshow burnt to a CD/DVD will be viewable on a PC without DigiBook® installed. Simply insert the media into a drive, and the slideshow will play automatically. Hit [Esc] on a keyboard to stop the slideshow.
 
Export slideshow data
 
 
(1) Right-click on a back of an album or anywhere on a spreadpage outside the frame to open a Menu Sheet. Click [Slideshow] > [Export Slideshow].
 
(2) Decide the settings for the slideshow to be exported and click [Save].
 
(3) Specify the location where the slideshow data will be exported. Click OK to continue.
 
(4) Making sure you have all the necessary data for the slideshow as shown on the left, burn all of them onto a CD/DVD in a Recording program installed on your PC.
 
Burn slideshow data directly to a CD/DVD
With DigiBook® 2005 Pro(excluding the Pro Trial), you can burn slideshow straight to a CD/DVD without leaving the program.
 
(1) Right-click on a back of an album or anywhere on a spreadpage outside the frame to open a Menu Sheet. Click [Slideshow] > [Export Slideshow] > [Write Slideshow to CD/DVD]
 
(2) Sonic RecordNow! will open. Insert a blank media into a drive if you haven't, and click [Burn] to start burning the slideshow.