How to set template up so photo copies to related slides?

[kilakiwi]

This has probably been asked before, but I'm new and can't find the answer, though I've searched: Can anyone tell me please, how do you set a template up to copy a photo dropped onto the first slide to all related slides? I saw this in the (wonderful) Eagle Rays template. Thanks!

Kim

[iii_carlos]

Ya, I can not figured it our also. Can anyone help us? Thanks.

[mfunk Profile Private message]

Sorry to be so late in response to this question.

To set up a template so that a particular image automatically pops into following slides, I used the Layer Matching feature within Producer.

You have to of already created the show with the image appearing more than once in a sequence. Then you go to the Motions screen for the slide where the image first appears. On the right side of the Motions screen, under the image display, you'll see "Not Matched". When you click here, the Layer Matching option window opens. Here you'll have the option to select a layer (the same image) on the following slide to match the current layer to. You have to do this for all the layers/slides that include the same image.

Once you've matched all the layers correctly, you then create a template from your show. When you use your new template, you should be able to drag and drop your image into a template layer and it will automatically duplicate the image where ever else it appears in the sequence.

Something I learned only after offering the original Eagle Rays template to the forum:

If you are copy/pasting a sequence from your template into a new show, you need to include not only the sequence itself, but also the slide just BEFORE the sequence starts. For some reason this is necessary to make the Matching aspect of the template work.

Hope that helps!

Michelle Funk

[kilakiwi]

That helps a lot, Michelle, thank you! Your shows are amazing, by the way.

Kim

[mfunk Profile Private message]

Thank you, Kim.

I hope the instructions are easy to follow. Good luck!

Michelle