The Magic Theatre User
Interface
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learn what each button does. |
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Scenery Library: Here you select scenery as
backdrops to your movie
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Magic Brushes
Library: Here you
select from hundreds of images that will be spray painted
and animated in your movie.
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| Animation
Library: Here you
select animations which you add to your movie by dragging
them across the screen.
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| Shapes Library: Here you select objects that can
be moved across in your movie.
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| Trace Library: Here you select line art which
you can trace as part of your movie. When you play your
movie you see your drawing evolve.
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| Music Library: Here you select music to play in
your movie. When you add narration this music becomes
softer for a background effect.
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| Special
Effects: Here you
select tools that give you special effects like bubbles,
tubes and rainbows.
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| Colors: Here you select the colors for
your drawing tools.
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| Line
Thickness: Here you
choose your line thickness for drawing.
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Straight Lines: Click here to draw straight
lines.
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| Free
Hand: Click here
draw your own animated art.
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| Rectangles:
Here you select a
tool to draw rectangles and squares.
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Circles: Here you select a tool to draw
circles and ovals
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| Sound
Mix: Here you can
choose the sound effects you want for each scene.
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| Play: Here you play the current scene
of your movie.
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| The Microphone: This button enables you to record the narration
for a scene in your movie. Clicking again stops recording
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| Play Next Scene: Here you play the next scene.
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| Audio Help: Here you are told that clicking
any button with the right mouse button will give you
audio help regarding what that button does.
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Stop: Clicking this
button stops the movie.
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| Play
Through: Clicking
this button plays through your whole movie from the
beginning.
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| The Movie
Library: Here you
open the movie library . Your movies are automatically
stored here.
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| New
Movie: Here you
make a new movie.
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| Mute: Here you are able to turn off
all sound.
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| The
Screen: This is
where you click and drag objects from the libraries. On
playback you see your movies here.
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| Undo: By clicking here you can undo
the last thing you have done.
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| Erase
Scene: Here you
delete an entire scene.
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| New
Scene: Here you can
choose to create a new scene.
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| Trash: Clicking this button deletes
your current movie.
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| Exit:
Clicking this
button exits Magic Theatre.
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