Before we even begin using MovieSlider, ensure that

• your hardware and software requirements, especially QuickTime 6 Pro, are met
• you already have a QuickTime movie (preferable approx 320x240 pixels)
• you already have a folder of JPEG, GIF or PNG slides numbered Slide01.jpg, Slide02.jpg...etc; the exception is if you have Microsoft PowerPoint presentation saved as JPG in a folder. MovieSlider will recognise and automatically re-order the slides

Note that there may be issues with QuickTime movies encoded with MPEG4. When in doubt, use Sorenson or Sorenson 3 instead.

Step 1 - Prepare

• Launch MovieSlider
• Open your QuickTime Movie using the 'Import movie' button
• Note that if your movie is streamed using QuickTime Streaming Server, you should open with movie with QuickTime Player, and save as a separate reference movie. Your should only import your reference movie into MovieSlider
• Choose the folder with slides using the 'Import slides' button
• Try to arrange your movie and MovieSlider as below:

Step 2 - Practise

• Try using the movie control buttons on MovieSlider to navigate around the movie
• Try using the slide control buttons to control your slides and get a feel of how things work
• When ready to start linking, click the Rewind Movie (|<<) button and Previous your slides until the first slide is in the largest slide view window.

Step 3 - Sync Movie and Slides

• Click the Play/Pause (>/||) button to start playing the movie
• As and when you wish to sync a slide, click the Link button followed by the Next or Previous slide buttons
• The QuickLink button will make things easier by syncing current slide and immediately advancing the slide for you to see the next one.

Step 4 - Proceed to output

• Click on the 'Proceed to output' button
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• You should change the Title and Banner text now to what your presentation is about.
• You can also change the Banner text banner colors if you wish. Remember that if the Banner text and background colors are too close together, your students will have trouble seeing the text.
• There are also two checkboxes: Check the "View..." check box if you want MovieSlider to automatically open the created presentation in your favourite browser, and check the "Retain..." check box if you want MovieSlider to retain the HREFTrack created for QuickTime Player. This is only for people comfortable with Quicktime Pro, and who wish to further edit the file.

Step 5 - The Most Difficult One Of All

• Click on the "Create Web Presentation" to, well, create your web presentation.
• Sit back and watch QuickTime Player and AppleScript do its work.

Tips and Tricks:

1. If you go through the Menu Bar, you will realise that there are keyboard shortcuts you can use to sync your movie faster.
2. You can save your links halfway through by going to File -> Save as...; this creates a text file which you can Open again in future to continue syncing your slides and movies. IMPORTANT CAVEAT: This savefile will not work again if you move/modify the movie or slide folder in any way.
3. The completed web presentation is named in 'yymmdd_hhmm_ss' format. You can change this to anything you wish, but if you are planning to put them in a webserver or on a CD, try not to have punctuation or spaces in the folder name, as this will cause issues with some webservers. Some operating systems (eg. some Windows) also do not like file/folder names with more than 8 characters...