Videonics PTM-1 - Controlling Playback Direction; Playing Pages Manually

Chapter 12 Playing and Recording Projects
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The current page remains displayed on the screen, regard-
less of its specified duration.
2 Press
PLAY or the SPACEBAR to resume normal playback.
Controlling Playback Direction
You can manually control the direction (or, sequence) in which pages
play.
To play pages in reverse sequence from the
beginning, press
SHIFT+PLAY. You can use this
feature while playing all pages or only
selected ones.
After beginning playback, reverse direction
by pressing just the
SHIFT key. Press PLAY to
continue playing in the forward direction.
To play in reverse sequence one page at a
time, press the
LEFT ARROW key.
Playing Pages Manually
Manually controlling when pages start and end can be particularly use-
ful when you set all pages in a project for infinite duration. Press the
PLAY key and the next page starts playing. Press PLAY again to end the
current page and begin playing the next one.
If you insert blank pages between each page that contains titles, you
can easily control page playback and duration. For example, suppose
you are producing a video of your European vacation and you set up
your Personal TitleMaker pages as follows.
shift
PLAY
+
shift
Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page nPage 6
Vacation
Video
blank
blank
blank
London
England
Windsor
Castle
The
End
1997