Table of Contents

Outline

1. Introduction and Basics
2. Main Menus
3. Media Item
4. Media Screen
5. Usage Scenarios
6. Effects Editor
7. Program Options
8. General Information
9. Appendices

• 1.1 Introduction
  • 1.1.1 Product Abstract
  • 1.1.2 Media File Formats Supported
  • 1.1.3 Key Features
  • 1.1.4  Video Mill Usage
  •           For Teachers, Presenters and Mobile Performers
  •           For Theater, Concerts and Public Speaking Venues
  •           For Haunted Mansion Walk-throughs or Museum Displays
  •           For In-Store, Business and Public Venues
• 1.2 Quick Start
  • 1.2.1 Just the Basics
  • 1.2.2 Building and Editing a Media List
  • 1.2.3 Using Play Controls
  • 1.2.4 Setting Descriptors
  • 1.2.5 Saving and Re-opening the Media List
  • 1.2.6 Main Program Window

• 2.1 File Menu
  • 2.1.1 Menu Items
  •           File: New, Open, Save, Save As, Recent Files
  • 2.1.2 Creating Media Items by Drag and Drop
  • 2.1.3 File toolbar
• 2.2 Edit Media Items Menu
  • 2.2.1 Video Mill Clipboard
  • 2.2.2 Edit Media Item menu
  •           UnDo Cut, Delete, Cut, Copy, Paste, Add New, Move Up or Down, Refresh
  •           Delete a Selected Set of Videos, UnDo Delete of Selected Set, Move Video Up, Move Video Down
  • 2.2.3 Media Item Edit Toolbar
• 2.3 Edit Media List Menu
  • 2.3.1 Overview
  • 2.3.2 Name
  • 2.3.3 Description
  • 2.3.4 Sort
  •           Sort Order Ascending/Descending, Sort By: Name, Description, Media Filename, Date/Time Modified
  • 2.3.5 Find
  •           Find Next/Previous, Set Find Text, Set Find Target, Match Case, Wrap Search
• 2.4 View Menu
  • 2.4.1 Menu Items
  •           Show/Hide Edit panel, Expand/Collapse Sections, Refresh List, Toolbars Show/Hide, Skins Usage and Edit, Show Mode Operation
  • 2.4.2 Auto-Position Screens
  •           Tile, Cascade, Stack, Auto-Position Reference Point
  • 2.4.3 Auto-Size Screens
  •           Auto-Size Reference Size
• 2.5 Actions Menu
  • 2.5.1 Menu Items
  • 2.5.2 Keyboard shortcuts (mouse-free operation)
  • 2.5.3 Play Buttons Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 2.5.4 Save Screen
  • 2.5.5 Use Effects (All Media Items)
  • 2.5.6 Focus on List Panel
• 2.6 Tools Menu
  • 2.6.1 Options
  • 2.6.2 Generate Report
  •           Report Sample
  • 2.6.3 Repair Moved File Paths
  • 2.6.4 List Validation Check
  • 2.6.5 Default Attributes
  •           Restore Defaults from Factory Settings, Save Selected As Favorite Media Item Attributes
  • 2.6.6 Shortcut Key Summary
  • 2.6.7 Tools Toolbar
• 2.7 Help Menu
  • 2.7.1 Menu Items
  •           Contents, Session Log, Web Site and Support, Check for Updates, Activate, De-Activate, About

• 3.1 Play Position Controls
  • 3.1.1 Overview
  • 3.1.2 Using Play Position Controls
• 3.2 Play Controls
  • 3.2.1 Overview
  •           Play Toolbar, Actions Menu
  • 3.2.2 Play Buttons
  •           Play, Stop, Pause, Resume, Close Screen, Load
  • 3.2.3 Volume
• 3.3 Descriptors Attributes
  • 3.3.1 Overview
  • 3.3.2 Descriptors fields
  •           Name, Description, Media Filename, Video Time Length
• 3.4 Modifier Attributes
  • 3.4.1 Overview
  • 3.4.2 Auto Play on Load
  • 3.4.3 Loop and Multi-Play
  • 3.4.4 Mute Audio
  • 3.4.5 Time Settings
  •           Set and Enable: Pre-Delay, Post-Delay, Start At, End At
  • 3.4.6 Effects Behavior
  •           Use Effects, Reset on Loop/Multi-Play, Continue on Loop, Freeze after First Play
• 3.5 Screen Layout Attributes
  • 3.5.1 Overview
  • 3.5.2 Screen Size
  •           Restore Previous Size, Auto-size to Video, Acquire Location and Size
  • 3.5.3 Screen Location
  • 3.5.4 Screen Background
  •           Color1 (C1), Color2 (C2), Background Style, Image File, Image Layouts, Gradient Style
  • 3.5.5 Opacity/Border
  •           Opacity, Border Width and Color
• 3.6 Apply Toolbar
  • 3.6.1 Overview
  •           Apply To Selected, Apply To Group
• 3.7 Media Groups
  • 3.7.1 Overview
  • 3.7.2 Media Groups Editor
  •           Name, Select Media Items, Edit, Add, Remove
  • 3.7.3 Select Current Group
  • 3.7.4 Add New Group from Current Loaded Items
  • 3.7.5 Apply To Group Mode

• 4.1 Media Screen Coordinates
  • 4.1.1 Overview
  • 4.1.2 Connecting your Secondary Monitor
  •           Extend the Windows Desktop, Auto-hide the Taskbar, Dualview Setup on Windows
  • 4.1.3 Screen Coordinates System
• 4.2 Managing Video Screens
  • 4.2.1 Overview
  • 4.2.2 How to Size a Screen
  • 4.2.3 How to Locate a Screen
  • 4.2.4 Screens Toolbar
  •           Buttons for Resize, Show or Hide Screen Titlebars, Show or Hide Video Screens
  • 4.2.5 Screen Context Menu Items
  •           Play, Stop, Pause, Resume, Restart, Save Screen
  • 4.2.6 Screen Borders and Background

• 5.1 Advertising and Promotion Kiosks or Showcases
  • 5.1.1 Videos Overlaying a Custom Background
  • 5.1.2 Audio Considerations and Separate Sound Tracks
  • 5.1.3 Starting All Videos Simultaneously
• 5.2 Theater, Concerts and Public Speaking Venues
  • 5.2.1 Videos as Backdrop Scenery

• 6.1 Effects Overview
  • 6.1.1 Overview
  • 6.1.2 Effects Edit Toolbar
  •           Edit Effects, Copy Effect, Paste Effect, New Effect, Show Effects Details
• 6.2 Opacity Effect
  • 6.2.1 Overview
  • 6.2.2 Target Values
  • 6.2.3 Favorite Values
  • 6.2.4 Opacity Example
• 6.3 Translate Effect
  • 6.3.1 Overview
  • 6.3.2 Target Values
  • 6.3.3 Favorite Values
  • 6.3.4 Translate Example
• 6.4 Scale Effect
  • 6.4.1 Overview
  • 6.4.2 Target Values
  • 6.4.3 Origin Point
  • 6.4.4 Favorite Values
  • 6.4.5 Scale Example
• 6.5 Rotate Effect
  • 6.5.1 Overview
  • 6.5.2 Target Values
  • 6.5.3 Origin Point
  • 6.5.4 Favorite Values
  • 6.5.5 Rotate Example
• 6.6 Skew Effect
  • 6.6.1 Overview
  • 6.6.2 Target Values
  • 6.6.3 Origin Point
  • 6.6.4 Favorite Values
  • 6.6.5 Skew Example
• 6.7 Effect Origin Point
  • 6.7.1 Overview
  • 6.7.2 Origin Point Values
• 6.8 Effect - Timing Values
  • 6.8.1 Overview
  •           Effect Start At time, Duration
  • 6.8.2 Initial Play Values
  • 6.8.3 Favorite Time Values
• 6.9 Effect - Motion Behavior
  • 6.9.1 Overview
  • 6.9.2 Motion Method
  •           Stop at value, Continuous value change, Auto-reverse at values
  • 6.9.3 Motion Method Usage Examples
  • 6.9.4 Initial Direction
  • 6.9.5 Cycle Speed

• 7.1 General Options
  • 7.1.1 Options Values
  •           Prompt to Save Changes on Exit, Show Tooltips, Show Clock, Log File Maximum Size
• 7.2 Reports Options
  • 7.2.1 Options Values
  •           Descriptors, Item Details, Effects Details
• 7.3 Screens Options
  • 7.3.1 Auto Position - Tile
  • 7.3.2 Auto Position - Cascade
  • 7.3.3 Screen Image Save Options
• 7.4 Program Options
  • 7.4.1 Fonts
  •           Menu Font, List Font

• 8.1 Installation, Setup and Activation
  • 8.1.1 Try before you buy
  • 8.1.2 Before you install
  • 8.1.3 Step 1. Download/install the program
  • 8.1.4 Step 2. Activation
  • 8.1.5 How to activate
  • 8.1.6 What if the program will not start or there are problems after installation?
• 8.2 Supported File Formats
  • 8.2.1 Overview
  • 8.2.2 Video Formats
  • 8.2.3 Streaming Video
  • 8.2.4 UTube and Other Web Videos
  • 8.2.5 Video Codecs
  • 8.2.6 Audio Formats
  • 8.2.7 Image Formats
• 8.3 Windows How Tos
  • 8.3.1 Copy, Cut and Paste keyboard shortcuts
  • 8.3.2 How to drag and drop multiple files
  • 8.3.3 Docking Toolbars
• 8.4 Error Messages
  • 8.4.1 File Errors
  •           Invalid URI

• 9.1 Appendix A.
  • 9.1.1 Acknowledgements and Trademarks

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