Saving your story
You can select an activity for your story and save it. The activity that you select for your story determines which profiles or quality settings are available for your story. Default activities include saving the story to play on your computer, sending the story in an e-mail message, and saving the story for playing on portable devices such as Pocket PCs and Smartphones.
Note that if you save the story for playback on a portable device, you must use another program to copy the story to the device.
To save your story
- On the Save your story page, click an activity that is appropriate for your story.
- In the File name box, type the path and a file name for the story, or click Browse to locate a specific folder or replace an existing story.
For certain activities, such a sending the story in an e-mail message, the options in the File name box are not available. You cannot save the story or specify a file name or location until the Completing Photo Story 3 for Windows page is displayed.
- If necessary, click the Settings button, and in the Settings dialog box, select a different profile for your story.
- On the Save your story page, click Next.
If you want to return to the previous page, click Back.
Notes
- If you choose not to name your story, Photo Story automatically names your stories incrementally (for example, PhotoStory1.wmv, PhotoStory2.wmv, and so on).
- To see if more activities are available on the Microsoft Web site, click Check for more story activities on the Microsoft Web site on the Save your story page.
- If your story contains a lot of pictures and Photo Story prerecorded music, it may take several minutes to build your story.
- When Photo Story saves the story to the location you specify, it also automatically adds a link to your story in your library in Windows Media Player.
- You can save a project for your story at any time while working on the story by clicking the Save Project button. In the Save As dialog box, type a name for the project. You must save a project for your story to be able to edit it later. Projects created by using Photo Story 3 for Windows must use a .wp3 file name extension. Otherwise, Photo Story will not be able to open the file. By default, the project for your story is saved in your My Videos folder.
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