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"We will not leave you floating"
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Knowledge Base
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"We will not leave you floating"
- DISE Support Team |
Knowledge Base
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Presets is a powerful feature of DISE and allows you to save objects and entire scenes to file, to later reuse in other presentations. You may have multiple scenes containing different content but with similar objects.
All objects in DISE Composer can be saved as presets. Presets maintain all the properties of the object, such as movements and effects.
You can save single objects or groups of objects as templates.
Start with a blank scene and create an object. Here I have selected to create a text object with the text "DISE Preset Example".
To save this preset, click in the ribbon, under the Object section, Save as preset. A save dialog appears. We recommend you to browse to your DISEContent path and save it in the Library > Objects > Texts > Text folder.
Note: You can of course save your preset anywhere or create your own folder in the DISEContent folder but if you want it to conveniently appear in the Library you need to save it in the location stated above.
When saving presets or template scenes a thumbnail image is automatically generated, so when you want to use your saved preset in your scene you just find the thumbnail in the file browser.
Browse to the Objects > Texts > Text folder using the Library tab to the left. You will see a thumbnail of your newly created text object and can now drag and drop your newly created preset onto any scene.
For another example of a preset, select the Library and browse your way to Objects > Shape > Stars > Animated Stars. Select the Preset named "bouncing star" and drag it onto the edit area. When you press Play you will see the star zoom in and out. This Star shape is saved together with its movement as a preset. You can try dragging multiple stars on to the edit area.
For image presets, you can hold down the Ctrl key and drag and drop an image onto the preset image object to replace the existing image.
Let's say that we've instead of saving an object want to be able to save the settings, movements etc. for the object for later use. DISE Composer already contains presets for movement and transitions, ready for you to drag and drop. These presets do not contain an actual object but instead allow you to drag and drop them onto an object in order for it to have the properties of the preset.
You can create movements preset from the Edit multiple movement dialog by clicking the Save button. The file extension for a movement preset is .disemoves file.
Path presets are created by opening the path context menu and selecting Save path. Load preset paths by selecting Load path from the same menu. The file extension for a path preset is .disepath.
Create effect presets in the Effects tab in the Object Settings by using the "Save" and "Open" icons. When saving an effect preset, all the effects in the list are included. The file extension for a effect preset is .diseeffects.
Scene presets are also referred to as external scenes. As previously mentioned, scenes may be added to and used when building DISE Movies and later imported into your presentation. They are saved to a .disescene file. You can predefine a number of scenes, let other people use the software to compose their own DISE Movies based on your template scenes and allowing them to change the text content on the scene without altering the overall layout. DISE comes with a couple of preset scenes. Navigate to the Presets > Scenes folder and you will see the following three scenes. These scenes can be added to a presentation by just drag and dropping onto the edit area.
To create your own scene preset just create your scene as you would like it to appear. In this example I have created a week calendar. This preset will be used by a another person to update the upcoming events for the next week. Every week a new presentation will be created so it makes sense to create a scene preset from my scene.
Select Movie > Export Scene(s). A save dialog appears. We recommend that you save it in your DISEContent path > Presets > Scenes folder.
Note: You can of course save your preset anywhere or create your own folder in the DISEContent folder but if you want it to conveniently appear in the Library you need to save it in the location stated above.
Now you will see your preset scene appearing in the scenes folder of the preset folder. Now every time you or anyone else want to create a presentation with a week event calendar just select the preset and add it to your presentation. Since it's located in the Library it's easily accessible.
