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Customizing motion and duration

When you select the areas of a picture where you want the focus of panning and zooming to begin and end, you are manually setting the panning and zooming effects, or the motion. The areas that you select in a picture will appear at the beginning and end of the picture's video clip.

To customize motion

  1. On the Narrate your pictures and customize motion page, click the picture for which you want to specify the motion, and then click Customize Motion.
  2. In the Customize Motion dialog box, select the Specify start and end position of motion check box.

    A rectangle with handles appears on the picture in the Start position and End position boxes.

  3. In the Start position box, do one or both of the following:
  4. In the End position box, do one or both of the following:
  5. If you want the motion for the selected picture to start where the motion for the previous picture ended, select the Set start position to be the same as end position of the previous picture check box.

    Moving the rectangles clears the check box.

  6. If this picture does not have narration and you want to specify the number of seconds it will be displayed when your story is played, select the Number of seconds to display the picture option, and then type or select the number of seconds you want the picture to display.
  7. Click Save to save the motion and duration changes you made.
  8. To preview the panning and zooming effects, click Preview.
  9. When you are done customizing the panning and zooming motion for the pictures in your story, click Close.

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