User Manual 4.0 USER MANUAL 4.0 DgFlick Solutions Pvt. Ltd., 203/204, Shreeji Arcade, M. G. Road, Borivali (E), Mumbai – 400066 Telephone: India +91 22 2968 68 68, US +1-732-543-7676. www.dgflick.com, support@dgflick.
User Manual 4.0 Add Life to Photos USER MANUAL 4.0 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................... 3 System Requirements ........................................................................................................................................... 3 Opening the Tool Box – Getting Started ..........................................................................................
User Manual 4.0 Hello Video Xpress is featured software provides you the facility of making video of Album project designed in Album Xpress. Almost every individual object on the page is automatically animated by the software. It’s loaded with large number of transitions, effects; set of decors to edit previously designed Album. Video Xpress can be used for complete new creation of Album and the video too. Photo book designed in Book Xpress can also be animated using Video Xpress.
User Manual 4.0 Introduction Congratulations on buying Video Xpress! This Manual will guide you on how to use this software effectively. System Requirements Windows System Pentium 4, 2.8 GHz Processor and above 1 GB RAM 1 GB free disk space CD/DVD- ROM drive Microsoft Windows XP (service pack 2)/ Microsoft Windows 7 / Microsoft Windows 8 Opening the Tool Box – Getting Started This section deals with online and offline registration process and other tools like shortcuts, preferences and help.
User Manual 4.0 Enter your details in the relevant fields. These are Name, Address, City, Country, State, Zip/Pin, Email and Phone or Mobile number. Fields marked with an asterisk (*) are mandatory and cannot be left incomplete. In the last field- Serial Number (XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX) will be automatically generated in the serial number text box. You will also find the serial number inside the software box pack.
User Manual 4.0 Next, a registration key is required to complete the process. There are three ways of obtaining this key: o Telephone: Call +91 22 2968 68 68 and the support executive will provide you with the registration key corresponding to your DgKey. o Email: Email us at support@dgflick.com to receive your registration key via Email. o Web: Log on to www.dgflick.com to receive the key. Once you have your registration key, enter it in the corresponding text box Click on ‘Register’ .
User Manual 4.
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User Manual 4.0 Preferences Video Xpress allows you great flexibility in usages while working on it. You could Change to the language of your choice. Select the aspect ratio for the video. Select the desired Theme for your software. Choose your Facebook history storage options. After installation, click on the Video Xpress shortcut icon in your specified path to start the software.
User Manual 4.0 ‘Home’ window …. Video Xpress Album: You can bring in the album project designed in Album Xpress and create a video of the album with individual effects to clipart, background and photos. Book: You can bring in the Book project designed in Book Xpress and create a video of the photo book project with individual effects to each background and photo. Making the Video Once you have a basic understanding of the software, it’s time to move on to the actual process of video creation.
User Manual 4.0 On the ‘Select Photos’ window, you have the option of selecting the photos from Hard disk CD/DVD USB the Bluetooth Facebook Select any of the media where the photos have been saved. Go forward or backward from here . View your folders in list or icon style from here This button . on the top right corner of the Window to zoom in/out the photos. The top option bar helps you to view the photos in different ways o Thumbnail style. o To get a full view of the photo.
User Manual-4.0 Go to ‘Size’ tab if you want to resize the photos size wise. Select the custom option from size tab if you want to give your customized size to the photo. After resizing the photo click on ‘Save’ Clicking on ‘Save as’ to overwrite the changes over the existing photos. will save the changes done on the photo with a different name. Select the ‘Rename’ option to rename the photos.
User Manual-4.0 ‘Edit Photo’ Window Click on ‘Reset all’ button Click on ‘Save’ to reset all the changes done. to save all the changes made. Clicking on ‘Save Copy’ will create a folder for original image and will save the changes made on the copy of the image, without affecting the original image. In ‘Select Photo’ window, you can rotate the photos clockwise or anticlockwise in a single click with these ‘Rotate’ icons .
User Manual-4.0 Bottom Option Bar ‘Design Video’ window …. Video is auto created with effects Highlight photos by applying borders from ‘Border’ tab. Masking effects can be given to the objects on the page from the ‘Mask’ tab. You can elaborate some thoughts about photos and event by adding title on the page. Video Xpress provides you various ready presets of effects like Colorize, Blur, Opacity, Feather, Shadow, Glow, Outline, Rotation, Presets and Blend in ‘Effects’ tab.
User Manual-4.0 If you want to create video of Album project, click on ‘Album’ option on the home page on Video Xpress. You will be redirected to the ‘Select Album’ window where you will be asked to select the album of which you want to create video. From ‘Browse’ button, you can browse in your computer and give the path of the folder in which you have saved the album. All the albums in the given path will be displayed in ‘Select Album’ window.
User Manual-4.0 Bottom Option Bar ‘Design Video’ window …. Video is auto created with effects You can find various tabs in Bottom Option Bar. (For details refer section Adding or Editing Decors) ‘Photo’ tab allows you to insert more photos on the page and give them various effects. From ‘Background’ tab, you can add background on the video slide. Decorate the video more by adding cliparts on the page from ‘Clipart’ tab. Highlight photos by applying borders from ‘Border’ tab.
User Manual-4.0 Shape added from the ‘Shape’ tab and customized with the ‘Customize’ option You can elaborate some thoughts about photos and event by adding title on the page. Video Xpress provides you various ready presets of effects like Colorize, Blur, Opacity, Feather, Shadow, Glow, Outline, Rotation, Presets and Blend in ‘Effects’ tab. You can apply any of them by double clicking on required preset.
User Manual-4.0 ‘Select Book’ window ‘Maintain Page Aspect Ratio while resizing to Video Frame Size’: If you want to maintain aspect ratio while creating video, check this check box, the book gets resized to the video size. Otherwise keep the checkbox off. Select the desired book and move on to the next process with ‘Next’ button . You will be redirected to the ‘Design Video’ window where you will see that your book is ready with the effects. You can change these effects if you want.
User Manual-4.0 From ‘Background’ tab, you can add background on the video slide. Decorate the video more by adding cliparts on the page from ‘Clipart’ tab. Highlight photos by applying borders from ‘Border’ tab. Masking effects can be given to the objects on the page from the ‘Mask’ tab. You can elaborate some thoughts about photos and event by adding title on the page.
User Manual-4.0 ‘Entrance’ tab ‘Animation’ tab provides you various options to give entrance effects to the various objects on the page. Through this option, you can provide not only effects but also you can define duration and delay for the video. There are various options available in this ‘Entrance’ tab. Let’s see all of them one by one. First option is ‘Start’. From start option you can decide the starting point of the effect i.e.
User Manual-4.0 If you do not want to give any effect to any object then select the object and click on ‘Clear’ button available on the bottom side of ‘Animation’ tab. When you apply any ‘Entrance’ effect on any object, a green box with an arrow in it appears on that object. It indicates that this object has an entrance effect. To go to the selected effect, click on the green box and you will be able to see the selected effect in the ‘Animation’ tab.
User Manual-4.0 First option is ‘Exit’. From exit option you can decide the exit point of the effect i.e. whether this effect should exit with the previous effect or after the previous effect. There are two options given in the ‘Exit’ option. First is ‘After Previous’ in which the selected effect will take place after the previous effect is played. Second available option is ‘With Previous’ in which the effect is played while the previous effect is being played. Next option available is ‘Hold’.
User Manual-4.0 In this way you can give effect to the objects on the page, manage the durations and make the video. Give effects to all the pages of the video and see the preview of individual pages from ‘Play Page’ option. To see the preview of the whole video, click on the ‘Play Project’ button. You will see the preview of the whole video. When you play the whole video, you can pause the Video with ‘Pause’ button.
User Manual-4.0 Background Tab Click on the ‘Background’ tab solid color. on the option bar to select the background for the video slide or to fill it with any The page with the selected background Besides the in-built backgrounds, you could access and select backgrounds that you have saved elsewhere by clicking on the ‘Browse’ button . The last 15 paths used can be viewed. To use a background, double click on it or drag and drop it on the canvas from the option bar.
User Manual-4.0 Photo Tab Click on the ‘Photo’ tab on the ‘Design Video’ window to access the photos of your choice. You could browse photos from ‘Browse’ button and even access the last 15 paths you have used. Sort the photos by clicking on ‘Sort By’ button . You can sort photos Date, Modified time, Name, Size, Type, Orientation and Used wise in ascending and descending order. ‘Design Video’ window …. ‘Photo’ tab ….
User Manual-4.0 Swapping Photos Many a times you need to swap photos on a page as you go along to. However, the borders if applied to the photos do not get swapped. Select the photos you wish to swap by keeping the ctrl key pressed. When both the photos are selected the ‘Swap’ icon appears Click on the icon to swap the photos. Zooming In/Out While working on your Design you can focus attention on a specific area of the page by zooming in or take a look at the ‘larger picture’ by zooming out.
User Manual-4.0 Red The photo is unsuitable for printing. Border Click on ‘Border’ tab on the ‘Design Video’ window to select the border that you want for the photo. You could select a border from the options, Video Xpress displays for you or you could browse and select a border of your choice from the path in which you have saved it. Double click on the border or drag and drop the border on the photo to apply.
User Manual-4.0 o Font from font dropdown menu o Font size from size dropdown menu o Style from various style options , , o Font Color from color palette or color picker o Ready presets can be used from available options , . , Adding a title for the photo Shape Click ‘Shape’ tab on the option bar to select a shape you would like to add to decorate the page. Double click on the shape or drag and drop onto the canvas. You can align and resize the shape or rotate it using icon on the shape.
User Manual-4.0 o Blur : You could give a blurred appearance to the photo to make the page more visually appealing. Click on the photo you need to blur and then select the preset of your choice under this option. Click on ‘Custom’ button to increase or decrease the level or blurriness using the slider. You can reset all the given effects with a single click from ‘Reset all’ button o Opacity . : Add opacity to the photo by selecting the presets available under this option.
User Manual-4.0 Click on ‘Ready Tone’ button to access the ready tones for the clip-arts. There are 18 ready tones available for each clipart and you could use the color of your choice depending on your page setup by double clicking on the ready tone. Mask Click the ‘Mask’ tab on the option bar to select the mask of your choice. Applying a ‘mask’ to the photo Select the photo to which you want to apply the mask and double click on the mask or drag and drop the mask on the photo to apply it.
User Manual-4.0 Number on the tab: This indicates the number of times the photo has been used in the design. Besides these options, photos can be sorted as ‘used’ and ‘unused’ by selecting the ‘Sort By’ button on the tab. Swap Photos While working on a design, you might want to swap photos to achieve the desired composition on the page or design. Video Xpress lets you do this by just a single click. Just select the photos to be swapped using the Ctrl key. Then click on to swap the photos.
User Manual-4.0 Flip Décor Decors like border and mask can be flipped horizontally and vertically, with the help of 'Flip' option provided at the bottom in the respective tabs. Flip Page Video Xpress gives you the option of flipping a page both horizontally and vertically as per your requirements. Horizontal flip: Right click on the page and select the ‘Flip page’ option on the drop list. Select ‘Horizontal’ to flip the page horizontally.
User Manual-4.0 Page-Based Alignment This option allows you to align photos and other elements on the page with respect to the page. There are multiple options for this sort of alignment. Select photos or other elements you wish to align using the Ctrl key. Then click on to select the alignment option you wish to apply to the photos from the drop list. Alternatively, use the right click button and on the drop list click on ‘Page-based alignment’ to access the sub-options.
User Manual 1.0 Alternatively, you could enter the values for the parameters in the value boxes above the respective sliders. Clicking on the ‘Auto Contrast’ button adjust the contrasts automatically. at the top will The changes can be reset by clicking on ‘Reset’ . The ‘BCG’ option RGB (Red, Green and Blue) Color Correction To adjust the color tones of the photos, you could use the ‘RGB’ color correction option.
User Manual 1.0 Blur Click on ‘Blur’ button to give blur effect to the photo. Adjust the blur level from slider . The ‘Blur’ option The changes can be reset by clicking on ‘Reset’ . Colorize Click on ‘Colorize’ option to colorize the photo. Select the color from ‘Color Picker’ or ‘Color Palette’ Adjust the opacity and level from slider . The changes can be reset by clicking on ‘Reset’ The ‘Colorize’ option .
User Manual 1.0 Adjust the opacity level from slider . The changes can be reset by clicking on ‘Reset’ . The ‘Opacity’ option Apply the Correction tool on the area where you don’t want to apply the opacity. Applying ‘Opacity’ to the photo Crop To crop the photo to the desired dimensions and orientation, click on ‘Crop’ Photo’ window. button on the ‘Edit Change the aspect ratio by clicking on the ‘Aspect Ratio’ box and select the required value.
User Manual 1.0 The changes can be reset by clicking on ‘Reset’ . Uncheck the ‘Show Grid’ box to remove the grid lines. The ‘Rotate’ option You also have the option of using grid lines on the photo to help align it better while rotating. You could activate the grids lines by checking the ‘Show Grid’ checkbox . Using grid lines on the photo (a) before (b) after ! You could undo the changes by clicking on ‘Reset’ the process.
User Manual-4.0 Saving the Changes There are two ‘Save’ icons on the lower right-hand corner of the ‘Edit Photo’ window. ‘Save’ : Clicking on this icon causes the old file to be rewritten and the new copy now exists for your reference. ‘Save as’ : Clicking on this icon will allow you to save a copy of your work. A text box allowing you to name the copy appears and clicking on ‘Ok’ after entering the name creates a new copy of your work.
User Manual-4.0 The default path for saving the video project is displayed in the textbox as ‘My Videos \ My Xpress Videos’. You could either save the project in this path or provide the path of your choice to save the project. Click on ‘Ok’ to generate the video or on ‘Cancel’ to abort the process.
User Manual-4.0 Support For additional technical support or clarification, please contact DgFlick offices/support via: DgFlick Solutions Pvt. Ltd., 203/204, Shreeji Arcade, M. G. Road, Borivali (E), Mumbai – 400066 Email: support@dgflick.com Telephone: India +91 22 2968 68 68, US +1-732-543-7676. Table of Index A F P Album ......................... 2, 8, 9, 13, 14, 16 Animation ... 2, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22 Aspect Ratio ........................8, 14, 17, 35 AVI ............................
