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Author: ffDiaporama Team

These buttons are grouped under four tabs: File / Project / Render and Help

## The project management commands

The following table summarizes the main project management commands:

Toolbar button | Project menu command | Keyboard shortcut | Action
| New | CTRL+N | Allows you to create a new blank project. The project properties dialog appears and allows you to setup the new project. (If the current project has unsaved modifications, ffDiaporama prompts you to save it.)
| Open | CTRL+O | Allows you to open an existing project. The file selection dialog appears and allows you to select the project to be opened. (If the current project has unsaved modifications, ffDiaporama prompts you to save it.) Remark: if the project contains files which were moved or renamed, ffDiaporama will fail to open them again. In that case, a dialog appears allowing you to select a new file.
| Open recent |  | Allows you to reopen a recently opened project. ffDiaporama stores a list of the last ten projects. (If the current project has unsaved modifications, ffDiaporama prompts you to save it.)
| Save | CTRL+S | Allows you to save the current project in a project file. If you have not saved previously the project, a file selection dialog appears and allows you to select a destination file.
| Save as | Opens a sub-menu giving you access to the following functions
| Save as: Allows you to save the current project in a different file. The file selection dialog appears and allows you to select a destination file.
| Export project: Export current project and all used files in a new folder. The export project dialog appears and allows you to setup the export.
| Project properties |  | Allows you to open the project properties dialog
| Settings |  | Allows you to define applications settings. The application settings dialog appears.
| Quit | CTRL+W | Allows you to exit ffDiaporama. (If the current project has unsaved modifications, ffDiaporama prompts you to save it.)

## The slide management commands

The following table summarizes the slide management commands:

Toolbar button | Edit menu command | Keyboard shortcut | Action
| Add title | Opens a sub-menu giving you access to the following functions
| Add empty slide: Allows you to add an empty slide : the new empty slide is appended to the project and is displayed in the timeline.
| Add a predefined title slide: Allows you to add a slide based on a model. The predefined title slide properties dialog appears.
| Add a map: Allows you to add a Google Maps map. The correct, reframe or cut image or video dialog appears.
| Add files | INS | Allows you to add photo or video files : A file selection dialog appears and allows you to select one or more files. Note: Each selected file is added to the project using sort order specified in the configuration menu of the multimedia file explorer.
| Add project |  | Allows you to add the slides of an existing project to the end the current project: a file selection dialog appears and allows you to select a project file. Slides, slide settings, music and background of the project are added to the current project.
| Cut | CTRL+X | Allows you to cut the current slide (remove it from the timeline and put it in the clipboard).
| Copy | CTRL+C | Allows you to copy the current slide to the clipboard.
| Paste | CTRL+V | Allows you to paste the slide or the image currently in the clipboard into the timeline.
| Edit | Opens a sub-menu giving access to the slide modification functions
| Open the background properties dialog (Equivalent to a double click on the background track)
F6 | Depending on the slide type, open the slide properties dialog if it's a standard slide or open the predefined title slide properties dialog if it's a predefined title slide. (Equivalent to a double click on the mounting track)
F7 | Open the music properties dialog (Equivalent to a double click on the music track)
F8 | Open the transition properties dialog (Equivalent to a double click on the transition)
| Remove | DEL | Allows you to remove the current slide.

#### Remarks:

- Inserted slides are either at the end of the project, or after the current slide, depending to the option "add the new slides (at the end of the project or after the current slide) " in the configuration dialog.
- It is possible to add slides by Drag and Drop directly using the file browser. Drag photos or videos onto the timeline and slides are created at the point you release the files.

## The render commands

The following table summarizes the main render commands:

Toolbar button | Render menu command | Action
| Player and Smartphone | Allows you to render the video for selected equipment from the device database. The render movie dialog from database appears.
| Multimedia system
| For the WEB
| Lossless | Allows you to render the video in a lossless format. Lossless format is not destructive, so it is possible to render several times the same video without losing in quality. The render movie dialog appears.
| Advanced | Allows you to render the video using the Advanced render movie dialog.
| Export Soundtrack | Allows you to render only the sound track of the project. The render movie dialog appears.

#### Remark:

- The lossless format is readable only by few equipment and generates files of enormous size. Consequently, it is useful only to generate parts of a project which will then be joined into a final project.

## The help commands

The following table summarizes the main help commands:

Toolbar button | Help menu command | Action
| About | Opens the about dialog. This displays information about the release, license and system information
| Support and help (F1) | Opens the ffDiaporama WIKI index
| What's new | Opens the Blog/News page from the ffDiaporama website