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Recording your story

On the Record your story page, you can do one or more of the following:

To record your story

  1. To begin recording narration for a picture, click the Record button Record button , and begin speaking.

    Photo Story captures the narration individually for each picture and displays the length of the narration for the picture on the right side of the Record button. You can record up to four minutes and ten seconds of narration for each picture.

  2. As you narrate, you can move your mouse pointer over areas of the picture to suggest where you want panning and zooming effects to occur. Photo Story takes into account your mouse movements when automatically adding the panning and zooming effects for that picture.

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    If you want more control over the areas where panning and zooming effects start and end for the selected picture, you can click Advanced. For more information about using the advanced options, see Setting advanced options.

  3. When you finish the narration for a picture, you can do any of the following:
  4. To preview your story, click Preview Story.

    You can preview a story at any time as you record narration for your pictures. Pictures for which you have not recorded narration or specified advanced options will be displayed for the default number of seconds during the story preview. Photo Story also generates the panning and zooming effects automatically for those pictures during the preview. To preview other pictures in your story, in the Plus! Photo Story Preview window, click the Previous Picture button Previous Picture button or Next Picture button Next Picture button .

  5. Click Next.

    If you want to add, reorder, or delete any of your pictures, click Back to return to the Import and arrange your pictures page.

Each picture that has narration or advanced options will appear dimmed in the film strip. A narration symbol is displayed in the lower-left corner of pictures that include narration. An effects symbol is displayed in the lower-right corner of pictures for which you set advanced options. Pictures with narration or advanced options also show the length of time a picture will be displayed when the final story is played.

Film strip view after narration and advanced options are added

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