[ibmcal]

I added Auto Motion to all pictures in a slide show I'm building using VideoWave. At first I like the effect, but now I think it's making me sea-sick (really!). Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any easy way for VideoWave to remove Pan & Zoom settings from an entire production and I was really dreading the tedious task of setting Pan & Zoom to None on 150+ pictures.

However, I was pleasantly surprised to see that VideoWave productions (*.dmsm files) are actually plain text files containing XML. With this knowledge it wasn't too hard to figure out that Pan & Zoom settings are contained within <PanZoomEffect> and </PanZoomEffect> tags.

Here's a quick way to remove all occurrences of those tags and everything contained within them using Microsoft Word.

• Close VideoWave.
  
• Make a copy of your production .dmsm file. I am not responsible if something goes terribly wrong.
  
• Start MS Word.
  
• Make sure "Confirm conversion at Open" is enabled by going to the Tools, Options, General tab.
  
• Open your production .dmsm file.
  
• On the Convert File dialog, select Encoded Text. Word will automatically select Unicode encoding.
  
• Select Edit, Replace and enter this string in the Find What:
  
  \<PanZoomEffect\>*\</PanZoomEffect\>
  
  FYI: * is a wildcard to match everything in between the start and end tags. The backslashes (\) are needed to tell Word not to treat < and > as wildcards.
  
• Click More and enable Use Wildcards.
  
• Click the Replace All button. Since we have not supplied any Replace With text, Word will simply remove all occurrences.
  
• Close the Find and Replace dialog.
  
• Save the file and click Yes to save in the Plain Text format.

When you open the production in VideoWave, all Pan & Zoom settings will be gone.

I hope you enjoy this tip -- it saved me a ton of time!!

[SFOAK1]

WOW! This works like a charm! The instructions took me through the process with no problem at all! I use EMC 9. Thanks for working this out!!!