Lessonator | Creating Slides and Slideshows — First Slideshow
| First Slideshow Now that you know your way around the Lessonator™ UI, let’s make our first slideshow. Internally, each slide is a separate file. This is why Lessonator™ saves files whenever a new slide is created or when switching from one slide to another. Here are the steps for creating your first slideshow: Start Lessonator™ – When you first start Lessonator™, an empty slideshow appears with the Slide Panel already open. You are expected to define the project’s name as well as parameters for the 1st slide. Chose a project name – Define the name and target folder in which to save your slideshow project. Define the cover slide – The 1st slide is a cover slide and usually uses a different layout than subsequent content slides. Choose one of the 3 cover slide -- keyboard, guitar or bass. Add new slides – Add new slides (⇧⌘N) and use Setup Panel (⌘.) to change template and/or instrument. Play Slideshow – Play Slideshow (⌥⌘P) Next Slide (↓ or →) Previous Slide (↑ or ←) Stop Slideshow (⌥⌘P) again or esc key. Congratulation! You’ve created your first Lessonator™ slideshow! Any new slideshow project will follow these basic steps. The Slide panel is where you go to change a slide’s parameters -- like a “home” button. Subsequent Slides Additional slides can be created by clicking the “New Slide” button (⇧⌘N). By default, it will use the same instrument as the cover slide and use one of the content slide layouts (not a cover). To override this, you click on the Slide panel icon (⌘.) on the Switch Bar. How The Slide Panel Works The Slide Panel is where you assign a reference media (video or audio), notation and up to 4 images to the slide. The Slide panel doesn’t actually load or apply anything until you press the “Choose” button. New file names, template and instrument selections are drawn in green, indicating that they have changed. For images, the next time you open the Slide panel, image previews are shown instead of the green text. A white dot means that no file has been specified. For images, there are 4 white dots, which means you can load up to 4 images on a slide.