Dise Composer, Getting started

Welcome screen

On starting Dise Composer, you are presented with a welcome screen that lets you choose a basic task.

• Open a demo Dise Movie

Opens and starts playback of a demo showing some basic capabilities of Dise.

• Create a new Dise Movie
• Open a saved Dise Movie
• Open the last saved Dise Movie
• Dise Knowledgebase

Opens a web browser and points it to our knowledgebase.

You also have the option of not showing the welcome screen on future startups.

Create a new Dise Movie

1. When creating a new Dise Movie you are now presented with an empty scene.
2. Select the Text Object on the Objects tab to the left and click and hold the left mouse button down on the edit area, resize the rectangle to the size you want of your object.
3. The Text object dialog will appear.
4. Write something like “My first movie” and click OK.
5. You now got a text object on the scene.
6. You can move the text object around, size it using the small black handles and change the color of it using the palette to the right.
7. Select any other color than black, as the object will not be visible otherwise.
8. Press the Play movie button below the edit area.

You have now managed to create, edit and show a movie.

Load and Save the Movie

1. Click the save button in the tool bar.

You will be prompted where to save your Dise Movie and with which name it will be saved.

2. Press “Save”.

Your Dise Movie is now saved to disk.

If you press the save button again, Dise will remember the name of the Dise Movie, and will not ask you for the name again.

If you later want to save the Dise Movie with another name, you can choose File > Save as from the menu.

If you close Dise before you have saved your Dise Movie, Dise will ask you if you want to save it.

When you want to open a saved Dise Movie, press the open Dise Movie button in the tool bar.

A dialog will let you browse and find the Dise Movie you are looking for. When you have found it, press “Open” and the Dise Movie will be opened.

Playback of a Movie

To preview the movie you are editing, just press the Play All button located at the bottom of the edit area.

If you want the change where and how the preview will be shown, this can be selected from Tools > Output Settings dialog.

Read more: Output Settings