Exporting for TV Viewing also provides you with the ability to reach Mac users! That's right, the .avi file FlipAlbum creates, along with any resulting DVD's, are Macintosh compatible, allowing you to share your albums with all of your friends!
Users should take note that the quality of the Video CD albums that are viewed on TV will not be as good as the albums created on FlipAlbum CDs that are viewable on the PC. In order to achieve optimum quality for the Video CD albums that you create, you may want to design your albums with the following points in mind.
| • | Do not have too many annotations. Text does not look good in the video format. | |
| • | If you do insert annotations, try to avoid fonts with straight edges. Large font sizes are also encouraged, like point size 28 and above for normal-sized fonts. | |
| • | Try to choose a darker page and book background. This will minimize the flickering effect that may occur on some TVs. | |
| • | Size of your pictures does matter. Whenever possible, use the centerfold mode for your pictures so that they will occupy as much of the screen as possible. |
As the movie exporting process is a CPU intensive activity, it is recommended that you use a PIII or P4 machine for this purpose.
Also, the following items will not be included when you select to export your album for TV viewing:
| • | Overview, Content and Index Pages | |
| • | Bookmarks and Markers | |
| • | MIDI music files | |
| • | Page audio |
For the Slide Show and AVI format, audio will not be exported at all. However, you can add in background music through 3rd Party Tools. AVI files are extremely large when uncompressed, so you may want to convert your album to a compressed AVI. Compressors offer a range of "quality" settings. You may want to experiment with different compressors and different quality settings to decide a good balance between image quality and file size. Performance is always a factor in deciding how much to compress your images. Test your files and find a good compromise between quality and size that works for your specific purpose.
If you would like to learn more about the VCD, SVCD or DVD formats, you can check out the following site: http://www.dvdrhelp.com/
*You can obtain the latest build 5.0.1.139 by doing an online update. To do an online update, just make sure that you are connected to the Internet then go into the File -> Online Update menu within the FlipAlbum program. From there, click on the Update button and the updated files should begin to download. You will then need to restart your system so that the updates will apply. Once your system has restarted, go into the Help -> About menu and verify that the build is now 5.0.1.139.
Alternatively, you can download the patch from the following website so that you can update your version to the latest build: http://support.flipalbum.com/softwareup.php
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