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This button will take you to preferences for the general behavior of the app, preferences for exporting, recording and cloud services.
General
Drawing style: Choose a style for the drawing tool: Calligraphy - quick strokes will become thicker. Ink - the smooth, default style.
Divide PDF/PPT/KEY into pages: Turning this option off for the listed file types enables you to import a multi-page document as a single, very long page. This
allows you to keep the entire presentation on one slide, and you can simply scroll up and down the document.
Adonit Jot: Slide to ON to pair with your Adonit Jot Bluetooth stylus.
Pogo Connect: Slide to ON to pair with your Pogo Connect Bluetooth stylus.
Cregle iPen / Smart Pen: If you have one of these styli for your iPad 1, 2 or 3, you can use this switch to activate the calibration screen.
Use wrist guard with iPen: When using the Cregle iPen or a Smart Pen, this will lock all the objects during drawing. Therefore a PDF document will not move
under your hand when using the draw tool. To move objects again, please switch to the Hand tool.
Classic PDF import: Turning this option to ON will use the legacy Explain Everything PDF import engine (that you might like for some reason as one of our
early users). You can use this when importing a large PDF file on a single slide to make it load slightly faster during recording or when opening older projects
to solve compatibility issues with PDF files. Otherwise Explain Everything (with this option set to OFF) will use the default PDF import engine which ensures
the integrity of the imported PDF and correct page division.
Toolbar/Control bar: Set bars to appear on the left/right side and top/bottom of the screen.
Wrist guard (control bar on the top only): When you are writing and need to rest your hand on the screen, this will prevent accidental drawing on the part
covered with the Wrist guard layer. Note: It will set the control bar to the top position.
Objects Fade In/Out: Inserting and deleting objects from the stage will display a fade in/fade out animation on them. You can choose to display the animation
always, only while playing or recording, or disable it completely.
Backup folder retention: Explain Everything will automatically save backups of your projects to the backup folder when working in background. Here you can
turn off backups, and control how often this folder will be cleaned. You can also do it manually by tapping Clean now button.
Parental Gate On/Off: This is an option for restricting children under 13 the access to external sources (eg. cloud services). When this is set to "ON", a user
will have to confirm his/her age before logging into external sources and solve a small riddle.
Export
Video export settings
Resolution: This allows you to change the size of the movie that is exported (the default is 1024 x 768).
Show 1920x1080 guides: Turns ON or OFF two horizontal guides in the stage indicating the space that will be exported as 16:9 movie when exporting in
1920x1080 resolution.
Quality: This setting allows you to reduce the file size and speed up compression, but will make the exported movie blurry.
Compress movies as: You can choose whether to save exported movies in the MOV or MP4 format.
Export slides without recordings: In Explain Everything you can export slides without recording. This option adds 5, 10, or 15 seconds of empty recording
time while exporting so that slides that didn't have a recording will be present in your video. You can also disable it by setting added time to 0 seconds.
Fast Compressing: You can turn on this option to reduce compression time. This gives the best effects on iOS 7 and higher.
Optimize for Network: This setting exports the movie in a format that is optimized for streaming video. Note: This setting is not necessary for YouTube
exports as YouTube will independently optimize the video for streaming when it is uploaded.
Audio Export: When set to OFF, the app will export a silent MP4 movie.
Optimize Identical Frames: Compression will be much faster if you have mostly non-moving objects and voiceover.
PDF export settings
Quality: Set the quality in which the PDF presentation will saved when using the Export to PDF option in the export menu.
Record
Front and Rear camera resolution: Sets the resolution of video recorded by the iPad camera. Lower resolutions will result in a lower quality video, but
presentations will compress much faster during export.
Audio Fade In for external mics: When set to ON this option will mute the very beginning of each audio recording so that any "pops" caused by some
external microphones are edited out.
Compress sound in XPL: This option will help keep the file size down and is turned on by default. Turning it off will result in recording Apple Lossless audio
format in your presentations - useful for post-production.
Show MIC MUTE button: Turning this on will reveal a small microphone button to the right of the time counter which will let you control when the iPad
microphone is active during recording.
Mute mic while playing inserted video: When recording while an inserted video is playing, the iPad microphone picks up the sound from the video creating an
echo effect. This option when set to ON mutes the iPad microphone while a video is playing, though it also means that audio narration can't happen at the
same time. When this setting is OFF, you can reduce the echo effect by using headphones while recording - or turn down the volume of the iPad speakers