Using soundslides

We’ve gone over Soundslides in the Fundamentals of Interactive Journalism course. This tool is used around the world by small to mid-sized online news sites that do not have their own Flash developers creating customized templates. It is extremely simple to use and powerful–especially attractive to print journalists who today must also produce multimedia. This tool makes it easy. Here are some links to the basic instructions:

1. Quickstart guide

2. Preparing your media files

3. Importing your files

4. Opening an existing project

5. You may find that you have to install the optional LAME audio encoder

6. Editing a slide show (including adjusting timing, editing image order, adding, removing and replacing images, inserting captions, headlines and credits)

7. Import a new audio track

8. Massaging the soundslides template

9. Exporting and publishing

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