• Introduction
• Getting started
• Opening text effect animator and typing in text
  • Changing your font attributes and font color
• Aligning your text
• Select an effect
  • Custom effects
  • Previewing effects
• Save and insert your text effect
  • Editing your text effect
  • Changing your project’s background color
• Export your Flash file
• Playing your text effect
• Additional Features
  • Exporting your effect in a web page
  • Placing your file in a web browser
• Conclusion

There are several ways you can create animated text effects with WildPresenter. You can use the text effect wizard, you can use the create text effect menu, or you can simply use the insert text effects button. For this tutorial we are going to use the insert text effects button.

In this box you can change the font, the font size and font attributes.

Once you have changed any settings in a custom effect, you may save it as a new effect. In this way, you can create an unlimited number of new custom effects.

Changing parameters
To use the Custom tab, you must first select a custom effect from the effects list. Once you have selected a custom effect, the customizable parameters will appear in the parameter and value list.

To edit a parameter, simply click on the parameter in the list. A description of that parameter will appear in the "Parameter Description" field to the right of the parameter list. The value associated with that parameter will appear in the "Value" field above the list.

To customize an effect, simply change the value in the value field, and click the "Update" button. Don't forget to click the "Update" button. If you don't click this button, the variable parameter will not update.

• Update: Selecting this button will cause any changes you have entered in the "Value" field to be applied to the selected parameter.
• Restore: Selecting this button will cause the original value of a selected parameter to be restored.
• Restore all: Selecting this button will cause the original values of all parameters for a selected effect to be restored.

Saving a new effect
If you want to save the customized effect as a new effect select the "Save as New Effect" button.

• Save as New Effect Selecting this button will open a window with options to save a new effect with the settings you have entered in the Customize tab.

Effect filename: This is the name the effect file will have in your WildPresenter>Effects directory. We recommend that to assist you in organizing the effects, you maintain the same naming system, but the effects will work no matter how you name them.
Effect name: This is the name the effect will have when it appears in your text animator effects list.
Cancel: Selecting this button will close the window without saving a new effect.
Save: Selecting this button will save the effect using the filename and effect name you have entered.

Previewing effects
You may preview your effects with the Fit preview to window checkbox. Unchecked shows actual text size. Checked fits the preview into the preview window.

Click File then Exit to close the Create Text Effect box.

There are many ways you can export your effect. You can click File then Export File, use the shortcut CTRL+SHIFT+E, or click the Export File button.

Click Save.

To play your newly created text effect, click the "Play Output" button.

If you have the export HTML option checked, WildPresenter will export both your swf and an HTML file. To play the HTML file, double click on the file from your hard drive.

Placing your file in a web browser
You may now take your html and swf files and upload them directly to your web site via an ftp program.

You may also bring your .swf files directly into an HTML editor, such as Dreamweaver or FrontPage. The Flash video file you create in WildPresenter functions like any other .swf file and is brought into these programs in the same manner as any other .swf file. For further instructions on how to do this, please see our tutorials site.