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Setting advanced options

If you do not want Photo Story to determine the panning and zooming effects automatically for your story, you can choose to control these effects manually in the Advanced Options dialog box. By setting the effects manually, you can select the general areas of a picture that will appear at the beginning and end of the picture's video clip. In the Advanced Options dialog box, you can also specify the number of seconds that a picture without narration is displayed when your story is played. The settings you specify in this dialog box only apply to the selected picture.

To set advanced options

  1. On the Record your story page, click the picture for which you want to specify advanced options, and then click Advanced.
  2. In the Advanced Options dialog box, select the Control pans and zooms manually check box.
  3. For the Start position, click the area of the picture that you want to receive focus when the picture first appears in your story.

    A green rectangle appears on this area of the picture.

  4. For the End position, click the area of the picture that you want to receive focus at the end of the video for that picture.

    A red rectangle appears on this area of the picture.

  5. To preview the panning and zooming effects, click Preview Motion.
  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 Do not record narration for this picture check box, and then type or select the number of seconds you want the picture to display.

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