I’m wondering if Fotomagico can play one slideshow in full screen per display? I’d like to create different slideshows and present them on different displays from the same Mac.
Assume I’m using an Intel or Apple Silicon Mac with multiple display support, of course.
I couldn’t find this in the documentation or feature information on the current version of Fotomagico. It talks about how to display a slideshow, but is not specific if there is any option for presenting more than one slideshow at a time.
If this is possible, it would be helpful to know if there are requirements, restrictions, or limitations on support for multiple simultaneous presentations.
Thanks!
As a long-time user of FM, I have never tried to do that because I never had the need to.
I’m assuming that you tried, but couldn’t get it to work. There is no menu option to achieve this, but when you want to play a show in full screen mode, you get a pop-up window that shows your screens, and allows you to pick which one you want to use.
I did try something just now, which was to open two files at the same time. So far, so good. And I could get BOTH presentations going at the same time as well (NOT in full screen, but just on my 27" monitor). I then realized I have my laptop (which is off to the side and closed) and display settings set up in mirroring mode (what’s on my laptop shows on my 27"). I turned mirroring off, and now when I went to play full screen I picked the 27" monitor for one show, and it started playing. Then I went to my laptop, chose the other FM window which contained the other show, and tried to play that back in full screen. I got the pop-up, chose the laptop this time, but that’s when I ran into trouble. It came up with a “Preparing” notice and a progress bar, but hung up about a quarter of the way through. I tried this a couple of times and got the same result (I sign of being crazy!)
So, basically I couldn’t get it to work. I would also guess (probably correctly) that both presentations MUST BE HANDS-OFF. You can’t have anything in either show that depends on a keypress to continue. And I also don’t know how you could get them both running at the exact same time (if that’s what you need).
So, yeah – that’s as far as I could get. I would think if you had TWO external monitors hooked up to a laptop or desktop, you could just turn off mirroring, and then choose one or the other of the external monitors and get them both to work at the same time, one show on one, one on the other.
Sorry if that doesn’t help – that’s the best I can come up with my system configuration.
I am looking to make multiple “hands off” presentations run at the same time. I have a Mac that supports multiple displays.
Trying to create a series of slideshows for graduation, but don’t want the same slideshow to run on each connected display. I’m trying to spread the slideshows out a bit because of the space/layout of the graduation party venue. I’m thinking several different slideshows could encourage people to move along and not clump in one place.
I haven’t tried this because I haven’t used Fotomagico in a long time, and haven’t updated to the subscription version yet. With that version, I couldn’t seem to use it without signing in.
Without a subscription, I found I was able to download and play the demo slideshows.
I could not play one of the demo files on the external monitor connected to an MacBook Pro M1 Max, and another on the internal display. I could set each file to play a slideshow and choose a monitor, but the second slideshow didn’t play, at least not until the first one had finished.
I attached a second external monitor, just in case the internal display was the issue. I could play a demo slideshow on one external monitor and tell the second one to play on the other external display. However, as with the previous experiment, the second slideshow did not run. I also didn’t see the second slideshow start when the first was done, but I wasn’t that patient in trying this out.
Looks like this won’t work.
Yeah, maybe the guys at Boinx will look into this. As I had stated, I could get TWO shows running at the same time on one monitor at the same time, but I couldnt’t share the shows across two monitors (i.e., in my case, one external, one laptop). And particularly not in full screen mode. I can think of one reason why the app doesn’t offer that easily – trying to push too much data at the same time and thus degrading BOTH shows at the same time (stutter, lag times, etc.). I’m not really an expert on that.
wofür braucht man das? Ich wüsste keine Verwendung dafür.