Casio Cassiopeia EM-500 User manual

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Mobile Picture & Video Player
Mobile Picture & Video Player (Version 1.0 US)
User's Guide
Important
•The contents of this User's Guide are subject to change without notice.
•This software is intended for viewing still images and movie format files and for
listening to audio and music files only for your own personal enjoyment. Such files
are normally protected by copyright law and by international treaties. You may not
otherwise reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, publicly display, or create deriva-
tive works of such files, unless authorized by the appropriate copyright owner(s).
•The explanations in this manual all assume that you are familiar with the button and
screen operations, and all other basic operational procedures of your CASSIOPEIA.
If you are not, see the CASSIOPEIA's User's Guide.
•The screen shots that appear in this manual may differ from the appearance of the
screens that appear when you actually operate your CASSIOPEIA.
Trademarks
Microsoft, Windows, and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
All other product and company names mentioned herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.
Copyright Notice
No part of this publication may be reproduced, transmitted, transcribed, stored in a retrieval system, or
translated into any human or computer language, in any form or by any means, without the express
written permission of CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.
Copyright 2000 CASIO COMPUTER CO., LTD.All rights reserved.

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Contents
4...Introduction
4... Features and Functions
4...Supported File Formats
5...To start up Mobile Picture & Video Player
6... Playing Back Images
6...Thumbnail Index
7...Switching Between the Snapshot and Movie Index
7...Selecting the Thumbnail Index Folder
8...Creating a New Folder
9...Displaying a Specific Snapshot
10...Displaying the Slideshow Screen
11...Displaying the Movie Screen
12...Deleting Files
12...Renaming and Moving a File
14...Moving All the Files in a Folder
15...Deleting All the Files in a Folder
17...Importing Files from My Documents
18...Refreshing a Thumbnail Index
18...Generating Albums
19...Attaching a Snapshot or Movie File to E-mail
22...Selecting a Preset Message
24...Editing and deleting nicknames
25...Playing Back Snapshots or Movie Files Attached to E-mail
27...Using the Snapshot Screen
28...Changing the Snapshot Screen View
28...Changing the Snapshot Screen Image
29...Displaying the File Properties of a Snapshot
29...Changing to a Different Screen
30...Using the Slideshow Screen
30...Controlling Image Playback
31...Making Slideshow Settings
31...Changing to a Different Screen
32...Using the Movie Screen
32...Basic Movie File Playback Operations
33...Controlling Movie Playback
34...Movie Screen Operations using CASSIOPEIA Buttons
34...Capturing a Still Image of Movie Screen Contents
35...Movie Screen Setup
36...Displaying the File Properties of a Movie
36...Changing to a Different Screen
37...Selecting Screen Backgrounds
38...Adjusting Slideshow and Movie Screen Brightness

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39...Albums
39...Creating an Album
40...Creating a New Album
43...Album Index Screen
43...Displaying the Album Index Screen
44...Displaying the Pages of an Album
45...Displaying the Album Page Screen
45...Jumping to a Specific Album Page
46...Displaying the Movie Screen or Snapshot Screen from the Album Page Screen
47...Editing the Album Index
47...Deleting an Album
48...Renaming and Moving an Album
50...Editing Album Pages
50...Adding an Album Page
50...Moving an Album Page
51...Deleting an Album Page
52...Pasting Snapshot and Movie Images onto an Album Page
53...Deleting an Image from an Album Page
54...Inserting and Editing Album Page Comment Text
55...Comment Text Input Dialog Formats
56...Command Bar Items (Menus and Buttons)
56...Index Screen Menus and Buttons
57...Playback Menus and Buttons (Snapshot / Movie / Slide Show Screens)
58...Copy Attachment Menus and Buttons
59...Send as Attachment Menus and Buttons
59...Album Index Screen Menus and Buttons
60...Album Page Screen Menus and Buttons

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Mobile Picture & Video Player
Introduction
Mobile Picture & Video Player is a program that lets you playback snapshots and
movies. It also includes a thumbnail viewer and other functions for easy management
of your movies and snapshots.
Features and Functions
Thumbnail viewer and data management (Page 6)
A thumbnail index shows thumbnails of snapshots and movies. You can use the
thumbnail index to edit file names, to move files between folders and storage
locations, to view properties, and perform other file operations. You can also
display individual snapshots, play movies, and start a slideshow from the thumb-
nail index.
Album generator (Page 39)
Generate an instant album of all the snapshots and movies contained in a particu-
lar folder. Then you can insert comments, add or delete pages, and paste and
remove images, just as you would with a real photo album. Easy operations let
you delete an album or move it to another memory location (main memory or
storage card).
Supported File Formats
Mobile Picture & Video Player supports display and playback of the following file
formats.
Snapshot files...JPEG files
Movie files .......CASIO's original CMF file format
The term “snapshot” as used in this manual refers to JPEG and JPG files, while
“movie” refers to CMF files.

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To start up Mobile Picture & Video Player
1. Turn on your CASSIOPEIA.
2. Tap , Programs, and then Picture & Video Player.
The movie index screen appears the first time you start up Mobile Picture &
Video Player.
Movie Index screen
•The screen you were using last (image display screen, album index screen)
appears the next time you start it up.

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Mobile Picture & Video Player
Playing Back Images
Mobile Picture & Video Player provides you with a number of different ways to view
JPEG and CMF format files.
To view: Use the:
All snapshots in a folder Snapshot index
All movies in a folder Movie index
A specific snapshot Snapshot screen
A series of snapshots Slideshow screen
A specific movie Movie screen
Thumbnail Index
The thumbnail index shows six thumbnails of snapshots or movies.
You can perform the following operations from the thumbnail index.
•Switch between the snapshot index and movie index
•Select a folder
•Display the snapshot screen (from the snapshot index)
•Display the slideshow screen (from the snapshot index)
•Display the movie screen (from the movie index)
•Delete files
A blue frame indicates
the currently selected
image. Its file name is
also highlighted. Use the
cursor keys or
ACTION control to
select another image.
Thumbnail
Shows the snapshot or
movie.
Folder box
The thumbnail index
shows all the snap-
shots or movies in the
currently selected
folder.
File name
indicates main
memory file,
indicates storage
card file.

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•View file properties and edit file data (file name, folder, storage location) on
Rename/Move screen
•Automatically generate thumbnails on the thumbnail index
•Move or delete all the files in a folder
•Generate albums
•Playback snapshots or movie files attached to e-mail
Each of these operations is described in detail in the following sections of this
manual.
Switching Between the Snapshot and Movie Index
•To switch to the movie index from the snapshot index, tap the View menu and
then Movie Screen.
•To switch to the snapshot index from the movie index, tap the View menu and
then Snapshot Screen.
///// Note /////
You cannot display snapshots and movies in the same thumbnail index.
Selecting the Thumbnail Index Folder
The thumbnail index shows all of the snapshots or movies in the currently se-
lected folder. To change to another folder, select the name of the folder you want
using the folder box at the bottom of the thumbnail index.
///// Note /////
•The thumbnail index automatically generates thumbnail files for the images it
displays.
•If there are folders with the same name in CASSIOPEIA main memory and on
the Storage card, selecting the folder name with the folder box shows the files
stored in both of the folders.

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Creating a New Folder
Use the following procedure to create a new folder.
To create a new folder
1. Tap the folder box and select "Add/Delete".
•This displays the Add/Delete Folders dialog box.
2. Tap the New button.
3. Input the name you want to assign to the folder and then tap OK.
•This creates the new folder and makes it the currently selected folder.

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Displaying a Specific Snapshot
You can select one of the thumbnails in the snapshot index and then display a
large-size image in the snapshot screen.
Snapshot Index Snapshot Screen
You can display the large-size image of a thumbnail using any of the following
methods.
•Tap the thumbnail of the image you want to display.
•Select the thumbnail of the image you want to display so its file name is high-
lighted, and then press the CASSIOPEIA's ACTION control.
To return to the snapshot index from the snapshot screen, tap the button.
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You can also use the snapshot screen to change the view of the image, to change
to another image, and perform other operations. See "Using the Snapshot
Screen" on page 27 for more information.

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Displaying the Slideshow Screen
The slideshow screen lets you automatically scroll through images one-by-one.
Note that you can display the slide show screen only from the snapshot index.
Snapshot Index Slideshow Screen
To display the slideshow screen, tap the snapshot index View menu and then tap
Slideshow.
•The image that is selected on the snapshot index is the one that appears first on
the slideshow screen.
•To start the slideshow, tap the button. Snapshots appear in the same
sequence that they appear on the snapshot index.
•To stop the slideshow, tap the button.
•To return to the snapshot index from the slideshow screen, tap the button.
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See "Using the Slideshow Screen" on page 30 for more information about
slideshow screen operations.