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Click on icon or Practice Stack title to download. If you have HyperStudio on your computer, you can select to open the stack using HyperStudio. Or you can save to your computer. When the stack is finished downloading, click Open and the stack will open.

You can open and print out the instructions in a print friendly version of those on the

practice session page within the tutorial.

Practice Session Instructions:

In this practice session you should be able to:

Add Sound and/or Video to any text object, graphic object, or button.

#1-5 Instructional information

# 6 Sound/Video Practice Choices

#7-8 Adding Sound

#9-12 Adding Video

#13 Complete and save stack

Click Begin to start the practice session.

3 . You can also create your own video using a Web Cam or Camcorder.

Then browse for where you saved the file and add the video file through Actions>Play a Video.

5. A video can also be added to a text object as seen below.

You can have the video activate using the automatic timer or use a button to activate the video when clicked. You may include a text object that lists the title of the video, like Alaskan Huskies. On this card you can activate the video clip by clicking on either one- the text object/box or the button that says View Movie).

The second card seen here is the example of what the video will look like when it starts.

You can select if you want the video to play over objects such as the text box or any graphics, just position the video where you want it to show when playing.

Start Practice

6. Select "Practice Adding Sound" on this card .

It is best to begin with Adding Sound, then go to Adding Video. At the end of either part of the practice session for sound or video, there is a button that takes you back to this card. The arrow buttons at the bottom of each card will take you back to the previous or next card in the stack.

7. Practice Adding Sound

You will see this image- the Digital Audio Deck. You can select files by clicking on *Samples or *In Use seen on the Digital Audio Deck. Click PLAY to hear the sound. Click OK when finished.

You can select sound files from the HyperStudio Media Library in the Sounds folder.

TO ADD SOUND:

• Select Disk Library to go to these files.
• Click OPEN to select the file. It will take you back to the Digital Audio Deck to listen to the file by clicking PLAY.
• Click OK to use this file

Directions for adding sound :

1. Double-click on the kids graphic. Go to Disk File.

Open the Sound Folder in the HyperStudio Media Library. Some sounds that a kid might make are: Ouch, Sorry, Oh Yeah. See if you can find others by previewing them.

Just remember where you save the file that you record and what you named the sound file. Browse for it when you add that sound.

To browse where you may have some sound files already recorded, click on the arrow on the deop down box next to where it says LOOK IN:__________>

The drop down box will enable you to click on the level or folder you need to retrieve the file from.

9. Practice Adding Video

This card goes over how to add video to an object or button.

Select the text object, graphic object, or a button. Double-click on the object or button.

Select where you want to get the file:

• Disk File
• Make your own
• Live Open WIndow using a Web Cam

• Erase when done
• Show movie controller
• Loop movie, etc.
• Click OK

When you insert a text object, automatically the Text Appearance box will appear. You can go to ACTIONS from here.

You can also double-click on the text object/box on the card to make the Actions box appear.

OR you can right-click on the text object and open up the Actions dialog box.

Select Disk File for this activity.

(You could select video if you had one already created from a source such as a Web Cam or Camcorder.You could also have it where a live Web Cam video window would open. Web Cams must be active for this to work)

Select the movie clip you want and click OPEN. This will put the movie clip on the card where you can resize and position the clip where you want it to be viewed.

If you don't need to resize or reposition the clip, just click on the card somewhere to finish inserting the movie clip.

11. Next add a video to a graphic object.

Directions:

• Click on the rocket graphic provided on the card (right-click or double-click).
• Click on Play a Movie or Video from the Actions box.
• Choose a movie from the QuickTime Movies folder. You can choose from the following to add to the rocket video:
  • Saturn
  • Earth
  • Clouds
  • Asteroids

Choosing one of these videos will go with the rocket graphic, like what you might see when a rocket goes into space. You will select the movie options--

The video will activate when you click on the object, or you can set the automatic timer.

If you have a Web Cam, you can make your own video. Save and name the video. When you go to Actions, it will ask you where you want to get your file. To use your own video, just browse where you saved it and select that video.

Resize and position as desired. Feel free to make your own video and practice adding that video to your stack. Make sure that it is not too large in file size as it may make the stack crash (or close out). If this happens and you have not saved the stack, you will lose any work that you have done on the stack.

13. Complete Practice and Save Stack

You have finished the practice stack, Adding Sound & Video.

Be sure you save the stack under a slightly different name before you click on the Exit button or close out the stack using the red X in the top right-hand corner of the stack.

You can click on the Back to Start button if you want to go back to the beginning of the practice stack.

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Lesson 4: Hyperlinks