To open a new project, click the "New Project" button in the tool bar on top or go to File > New. This opens a dialog box wherein the name of the project, its title, location, media type (video or audio) and media location are to be entered.
To save the current project, click the "Save Project" button in the tool bar or go to File > Save.
To load a project already present on a local location, click the "Load Project" button in the toolbar or go to File > Open and choose the project location. This loads the existing library.
Click on the "Publish Project" button on the toolbar or go to File > Publish to save the project and create the index.html file for the client side.
Click on the "Project Priview" button on the toolbar to preview the client side html window of the current project.
The library is the tree visible on the left side in the editor's window. It displays 3 folders containing the media present in the current project. To import new media (for the content viewer) into the current project, click the "Import Media" button on the toolbar and select the required file. This automatically places the file in the folder matching its category.
For media in the content viewer, the file types supported are pdf, txt, html, htm, xhtml, css and image types(jpg, jpeg, gif, bmp, svg and png)
To remove media from the library, select the media required to be deleted and click on the "Delete Media" button in the toolbar. Media once deleted cannot be recovered.
The tag editor is the part of the project that is used to manipulate and edit "tags". These are basically points of the video when we want to display some related media in the form of either images, pdfs, Unicode documents or external links.Thus it is important for one to have a good grasp of how to use this.
The tag editor consists of the following fields:-
This dropdown menu consists as its elements all the tags that have been added as of the current point in the project development.
This consists of an editable textbox that can be used to change the time at which a tag is placed. This tag (whose time is to be changed) must be selected from the Tag List menu.
This menu consists of all the media that has been imported into the library. It also consists of the external URL's that have been added upto that point.
This is the textbox that is used to input the page number of the pdf to be displayed. If this page number is out of range, then the pdf plugin will show an error message and it will show the last page of the pdf.
This is used to enter a title for the tag if it is wanted. Note that for the client(i.e. person who will be viewing the final presentation) to be able to see this tag as a clickable link from which to navigate to the corresponding point in the presentation, the tag in question must be given a title.
These buttons are(self-evidently) used to play/pause or stop the video.
This button is used to add a tag to the list of tags. It takes in the time for the tag from the current video time(also represented by the video scrollbar). The "Time" textbox or the Tag Pointer is thus not read/used while adding tags. The other information is obtained as needed from their corresponding input fields.
This button is used to delete a tag from the list of tags. The tag that gets deleted is the one that is displayed in the Tag List dropdown menu.
This button is used to change any of the parameters of the tag selected by the Tag List dropdown menu. If the time has to be changed then the new time is obtained from the Time textbox.
Clicking this button opens a prompt into which we enter the external URL. This will then get added to the Library.
To add a tag, move the video to the point at which you want to add the tag. Set all the appropriate values of the associated media to be displayed. Then click on the Add Tag button. Note that the time at which the tag is added is not the time in the Time textbox but the time at which the video pointer is currently located.
The tag will now be added and you can see it's data automatically selected.
To delete a tag, simply select a tag from the Tag List and click on the delete tag button. The tag will be deleted from the list and the first tag will now be selected.
To change a tag, choose the tag that you want to change from the Tag List dropdown menu. Then change all the values of the associated media as per your requirements. Note that when using the change tag button, the time that is chosen will be the one from the Time text box.
To add external URL's, click on the Add Link button. Then a prompt will open. Put the link in this prompt. The link will get added to the URL dropdown menu and can now be used just like any other element of the library.