Creating Multimedia Slides

This procedure describes how to add one or more slides, and define content for them. This is the first step in Creating a Multimedia Message.

What You Need

   Access to the MMBox, as described in MMBox Access

 How

1    Click Compose.

The Compose page appears (see Figure: Compose Page).

An empty slide numbered 1 appears in the Slides area on the left side of the page.

2    To add an image to the slide, under Image, do one of the following:

   To add an image from the multimedia albums, click  Load Image From Album.

The Multimedia Album opens in a new window, showing the content in the Public Album by default.

Browse to the desired image in the Public or Private Albums, and then click OK to add it.

   To add an image from your computer, click  Load Image from your Computer and browse to the location of the image.

The name of the selected image appears in the field and the image itself appears in the slide.

3    To add a video clip to the slide, under Video, do one of the following:

   To add a video clip from the multimedia albums, click  Load Video From Album.

The Multimedia Album opens in a new window, showing the content in the Public Album by default.

Browse to the desired video clip in the Public or Private Albums, and then click OK to add it.

   To add a video clip from your computer, click  Load Image from your Computer and browse to the location of the video clip.

The name of the selected video clip appears in the field and the clip itself appears in the slide.

4    To add an audio clip to the slide, under Audio, do one of the following:

   To add an audio clip from the multimedia albums, click  Load Audio From Album.

The Multimedia Album opens in a new window, showing the content in the Public Album by default.

Browse to the desired audio clip in the Public or Private Albums, and then click OK to add it.

   To add an audio clip from your computer, click  Load Image from your Computer and browse to the location of the audio clip .

The name of the selected audio clip appears in the field.

5    To remove an image, video clip, or audio clip from a slide, under Image, Video or Audio, click  Remove image/video/audio from current slide.

6    (Optional) In the Text field, type the text to include in the slide.

7    To position the text above the video or image clip on the slide, click Text Above.

The default position for text on a slide is below the video or image clip.

8    To specify a delay before the media element appears on the slide, and the duration for which the media element remains on the slide, click Show advanced options.

Begin after and Duration time controls appear below each of the media elements, including the Text element (Figure: Advanced Time Controls for Slides).

Advanced Time Controls for Slides

9    Do the following for the Image, Video, Audio, and Text media elements, as appropriate:

i     In the Begin After field, type the number of seconds after which the media element must appear on the slide.

ii    In the Duration field, type the length of time that the slide remains on the handset, in seconds.

If you do not specify when the media element should appear on the slide, or the duration of the slide, the media element appears immediately and the slide displays for the default duration of 5 seconds.

The Summary area shows the total number of slides, the duration of each slide, and the duration of the entire multimedia message.

10  To remove all changes you made since the last save, on the toolbar, click  Reset.

This action is not restricted to only the selected slide. It undoes all the changes made since the last save to all the slides.

11  To add more slides, in the Slides area on the left side of the page, click  Add Slide.

Empty slides, numbered sequentially, appear after the last slide.

12  To copy an existing slide including its content, in the Slides area on the left side of the page, select the slide to copy and then click  Duplicate Selected Slide.

The duplicated slide is added after the last slide.

13  Repeat step 2step 9 to add media content to the slide(s).

14  Arrange the slides, as described in Arranging Multimedia Slides.