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How To: Import media into a mediascape
The mscape platform allows a number of different media types to be used in mediascapes - audio, images, video, Flash movies, HTML pages and slideshows. Before a piece of media can be used, however, it must be imported into the mscape maker. This tutorial will show you how to do that.
Let's begin by
starting the mscape maker and creating a new mediascape.
Notice the panel on the left hand side of the mscape maker. You will see a section labeled
Media containing three subsections:
Audios,
Images and
Videos:
This structure reflects the default mediascape template that is loaded when the
New button is clicked. But what if I wanted to use a Flash movie or a slideshow? Easy, just right-click on the
Media section and select the appropriate menu entry:
However, for this tutorial, let's import an image. There are two ways to do this: First look at the toolbar at the top of the mscape maker:
And click on the
Image button in the
Import section.
Alternatively, right-click on the
Images section and select
Import Image File(s):
Whichever method you choose, the effect will be to bring up a file dialog that will allow you to find and select the image file:
Select the image that you wish to import and click
Open. Now you should be able to see a new
Image object in the
Images section with the same name as the file (without the extension). If a script object with that name already exists, the new image object will be given a unique name such as
beach01 or
beach02.
This screenshot also shows the properties of the new image object in the panel immediately below the list of script objects. This allows to check that you have imported the right file and change some of the image's properties.
That's it. You are now ready to use the image object that you have just imported in the mediascape. Follow the same procedure to import any of the other media types, and have fun!
