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General Dream Studio Questions

What is Dream Studio?
Sanriotown's Dream Studio is an innovative showcase for your memoirs and stories that can be securely shared and collaborated on. It is the best place online to put together photos, videos and words. Create Slideshows, a multi-media collage that comes to life with exciting transitions, special effects and animations.
What's a Slideshow?
A Slideshow is a collection of photos, videos, and sounds brought together into a highly stylized frame-based presentation that can be customized with a myriad of creative options and effects. A Slideshow resides in a permanent URL and can be private, only to be accessed by whomever you invite, or public for the whole world to see.
Please refer to our tutorial section to learn about Creating a Slideshow
How do I use my Slideshow?
You can share your Slideshows, publish them to other sites or blogs, or just keep them to yourself. Once you've designed one, the only limit in how you use it is your imagination.
Can anyone see my Slideshows?
That completely depends on you. As the final step in your design, you get an option to choose whether the projects you make are made public or private. The option to do this can be turned on and off anytime.
What are the rules?
As with any community, whether online or not, there are certain rules and guidelines to abide by. We'd like to promote a healthy online community that only grows with creativity and the sharing of great ideas. Please refer to the Community Guidelines for a detailed discussion.

Photos, Videos & Sound

How do I upload my files?
Uploading your photo, video and sound files are easily done in Sanriotown's Dream Studio section, by clicking on the "Add" button and selecting the file you wish to upload. Categorically, a Slideshow at any given time can be a mix of images, videos, and background sound, or any combination of the three.
For more information on creating Slideshows and supported files, you can browse through topics in our tutorials.
How much media can go into a single slide?
You can upload as many images and videos as you wish, up to 99 slides. You can also juxtapose full motion video and static photos for interesting effects.
What is the maximum duration of a single slide?
The maximum length of each slide can play is 99 seconds.
What image files are supported?
Sanriotown's Dream Studio section currently supports the following image file formats:
jpg, jpeg, gif, png, and bmp

What video files are supported?
Slideshows can be taken to the next level with the inclusion of live video. You can import the following types into your project:
avi, mpg, mpeg, wmv, mov and asf

What is the maximum file size of each video that I upload?
The maximum file is 20Mb per each video upload
What sound files are supported?
Background sound and music can be assigned to a slide. There are three preset music backgrounds for you to use and an option to upload MP3 files only.
What is the maximum number of slides possible in one Slideshow?
Up to 99 slides can be created and used in one Slideshow.

Managing Your Collections

What are Collections?

The Collection is the vault in which you keep your Slideshows. For lack of a better term, this may serve as the album. You can manage everything from here such as creating new projects, editing existing ones, and deleting files. Other options are made available for you to tweak your Slideshows, and these are discussed below.

Option Available

Make Slideshows Public or Private
Edit tags
Manage Comments

Is there a limit to how many collections I can have?

Currently, there is no limit.

Tags and More

What are tags?

Tags are keywords or labels that you can add to an Slideshow to make it easier for you and your viewers to find it later. You can tag each project with tags like "birthday party". Ideally, a tag should be at least 2 letter or numbers separated with a space or with double quotes to join two or more words together in one tag, like "johnny's birthday party" so that if you are looking for pictures of Johnny at a later date, you can click on that tag and get all Slideshows that have been tagged that way.

Here are some tag suggestions to help you streamline your collections.

Medium Tags

photo - images that you take from your camera
drawing - images that you draw, or images of drawings you upload
painting - just like drawing but with paint, of course.
cg - computer generated images, from photo editors and 3D programs

Genre Tags

cameraphone - images or videos taken with a cameraphone.
video - live action sequences
montage - multiple images juxtaposed
portrait - an image of a person or group of people.
group - include on a portrait of a group of people.
landscape - outdoor images, focuses on the environment.
still life - image of an inanimate object or group of inanimate objects
abstract - an abstract image; non-figurative.
propaganda - politically motivated image, typically includes text.
comic - sequential art

Subject Tags

live music - a photograph of a musician or musicians in performance.
animal - an image with an animal as its subject.
me - an image of yourself.

Name Tags

Judicious use of the name of a person in the photo or project.
Ex. Ashton, Geoffrey, etc.

Location Tags

hong kong
vancouver

a 'vacation' tag can group all the images taken away from home.
For example: "hong kong vacation"

This list is just a start and we hereby encourage developing your own novel tagging scheme. Tagging is pretty subjective and requires some careful and strategic planning to make it truly useful and meaningful to its user. We hope that examples above get you a head start in the tagging stratagem.

Public vs. Private

Can I protect my personal projects from prying eyes?

Of course you can. Each Slideshow that you make comes with its own privacy setting. You can make it available to absolutely everyone (including those who are not Sanriotown members), or you can just keep it to yourself.

Can I make a public Slideshow private again?

Yes. The privacy setting you associate with each Slideshow is completely flexible. You can show or hide it anytime you like.

Can anyone leave a comment?

The answer is yes, unless you say you don't want them to. We recommend that any user be able to comment on your photos to make a richer tactile environment.

A page in your profile settings area, which lets you specify default settings for what you'd like most of the time. You can change this for each individual Slideshow if you wish.

More importantly, members of the general public who aren't members of Sanriotown can never comment on your photos.

Embedding, Publishing and Linking to Other Sites

Can I display my Slideshows elsewhere? (Thus making me look like a complete genius)

Of course you can!

The "Embed" section is a line of HTML code you can copy and paste onto any web page, allowing you to display the video on your personal web page, your blog, anywhere that supports flash video!

Because each Slideshow you create is rendered into Flash, many portals will support it. Creating a new Slideshow assigns a URL to it which you can readily embed on your personal web page, your blog or anywhere that supports flash video (Such as Friendster and MySpace).

The details portion of each Slideshow will contain the URL address and a code that you easily copy and paste to an appropriate web application.

In most cases, this is done within a customization or media box in which you are required to provide a code snippet that we readily provide.

Your Privacy

What are you going to do with my email address?

That's where we send you your password if you forget it. It is also sent to the people you invite to see your Slideshows, and we will use it to contact you (if you choose to let us) about service improvements. We won't sell your email address to third parties or use it to market anything not directly related to the Sanriotown service.

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