In order to understand the following chapters in this manual you may want to familiarize yourself with the terminology used by FotoMagico:
Slideshow - Your entire project, which is made up of images, movies, titles, transitions and audio. Your end product.
Slide - A container that holds visual items (images, movies or titles).
Visual item - A visual item can be an image, a movie, or a title item.
Image item - A single still-image you add to a slide.
Title item - A text element you add to a slide.
Movie item - A Quicktime movie you add to a slide.
Audio item - A song or other audio file that is added to the slideshow.
Thumbnail - A reduced-size of an image, movie, or title to help recognize the visual item in the Storyboard.
Transition - The effect applied between two consecutive slides. There are many types of transition effects. The most common ones are Dissolve, Fade, and Cut.
Transition Interval - The Timeline depicts the transition interval as a stairstep shape. Drag the lower-left edge to change the slide duration of the previous slide. Drag the upper-right edge to change the transition duration itself.
Audio track - An entire track of audio, which includes music, audio effects, or narration.
Playhead - The thin vertical line with the blue triangle at the top that you drag horizontally in the Storyboard or Timeline to move to a location.
Duration - The total time of a slide or how long the animation of the slide takes.
Geometry - The parameters (position, zoom and rotation) of a visual item that determine where it shows up on the Stage. The geometry applies to both the start and finish of a visual item.
Animation - Moving from the start geometry to the finish geometry of a visual item creates an animation. In the Stage, the start of the animation displays on the left side, and the finish of the animation displays on the right side.
Jog wheel - The wheels that display when a slide is selected to adjust the Zoom and Rotation of the selected visual item.
Timescale slider - (Timeline view only) Allows you to drag the slider to increase and decrease the horizontal scale of the Timeline.
Audio marker - Thin red lines that display in the audio waveform (of the Timeline) or in the toolbar (of the Storyboard) that are manually added to indicate a location in the audio. An audio marker can be enabled or disabled. Right-click or double click on the marker to display audio marker information.
Fade-in - A gradual increase in volume at the beginning of an audio item.
Fade-out - A gradual decrease in volume at the end of an audio item.
Volume envelope - Defines the volume of an audio item over time. Let's you decrease or increase the volume of a song at any point in the Timeline.