Here are the most common questions that you may ask yourself about the 3WDOC Studio. If you are looking for more visual explanations, please have a look to our tutorials in the Support section.
A French and Spanish version of these FAQs and Tutorials section will be ready soon.
3WDOC Studio allows you to create new type of contents: rich media linked in a story.
A sequence includes your edited work. It is composed of one track or an unlimited number of tracks. Your story, or a part of your story, can be told in a sequence. By analogy, a sequence could be the equivalent of a chapter in a book where lines would be tracks!
A track is each element added in the sequence. Tracks can be medias (photos, audios, videos), articles and buttons. Each track will be placed on time and space.
The 3WDOC Editor is the workspace of each sequence. You will build your story by selecting the different items (medias, articles and buttons), editing them, giving them a duration and placing them on space (the screen).
A WDOC is the final production composed of different sequences in order to tell a complete story.
A WDOC could be the equivalent of a book.
You can use images with these extensions: .jpg, .png, .gif.
The maximum filesize is 50Mo.
For each video file you will have to create 2 files, one in .mp4 extension and the second one in .ogg extension.
3WDOC STUDIO needs these 2 formats to ensure the video will be interpreted by all modern browsers.
The maximum filesize is 50Mo.
For each audio file you will have to create 2 files, the first one in .mp3 extension and the second one in .ogg extension.
3WDOC STUDIO needs these 2 formats to ensure the audio will be interpreted by all modern browsers.
The maximum filesize is 50Mo.
The free hosting offered by 3WDOC is limited to 1Gb per user
The maximum size of a media is limited to 50 Mb
A small initiation of what are the requirements to start on the good foot.
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Go to 3WDOC STUDIO: Add a video track, and copy paste the link in the inspector. Be careful, you have to withdraw the extension from the filename; and do not forget to upload two files, one in .mp4 and the other in .ogg in order to be cross-browser.
Sequence > Create: Sequence Edit window:
There are 3 fields filled by defaut:
These parameters will allow you to display the sequence in 4:3 full screen.
Don't forget to enter the Label (the name).
You can also fill other fields: Description, Tags, ...
> Close the window. You are in the 3WDOC STUDIO of the created sequence. You can start editing.
To optimize your sequence in the browser, go to Sequence Edit and enter these parameters:
For a video with a 16:9 aspect ratio
For a video with a 4:3 aspect ratio
If you wish a full screen size for your WDOC, go to Sequence Edit and enter these parameters:
Save button on the main menu of the sequence). Preview button on the main Menu). Publish button. And that's it!Click on Home button in the main Menu of 3WDOC Studio, to access to My Stories. All your published sequences and WDOCs are here.
You will be able to access to each one directly, and to share them on Facebook and Twitter.
WDOC > CREATE.
In the Sequence List, select each sequence to assign to this WDOC: in Sequence Edit select the Webdocument_id of this WDOC.
A way to start editing.
Add track Select the element you want to add (audio, video, article, image or button) click on Add track.
The track will be automatically created and visible on the Timeline. Each track can also be visible on the Positioner.
Each new track will be placed at the end of the Timeline.
It allows you to show and edit all the tracks on time.
Just click on the track to change its duration or to move it on time.
You can duplicate your track easily.
On the Timeline, select the track you want to copy and click on the "double sheet" icon.
In the Timeline, we have attributed different colors to help you to recognize each type of track.
- Blue corresponds to a button.
- Green corresponds to an image.
- Red corresponds to a video.
- Yellow corresponds to a sound.
- Pink corresponds to an article.
You can move the track with your mouse and place it where you want. You can also change its size.
At any moment, you can decide wich track will be shown on the Positionner by the check-box on the Timeline.
It allows you to edit each track, by these tabs: Informations, Properties, Effects, Actions and Style.
TcLink, TcGoto, TcOverlayed, Native action, ...
Yes it can! Go to the Inspector > Action.
Blind, Clip, Fade, Slide, Bounce, ...
Edit some sequence parameters.
You can copy a previously created sequence. It will enable you to have the same "screen", the same structure, and you will just have to change its medias.
You have to create a new sequence, with buttons that will link to different sequences.
Each button will have an action TCLink. Then click on Select to select the targeted sequence.
You can link 2 sequences between them with a TcLink action on a button.
Insert a button on your sequence, give it the action TcLink and click on SELECT to select the targeted sequence.
Click on Home button in the main Menu of 3WDOC Studio, to access to My Stories. All your published sequences are here.
No, you can only work on 1 sequence.
If you are editing one sequence and you decide to open a second one, the first one will be closed automatically.
In Sequence Edit check these parameters:
Native WindowRatio WindowIf you enter "0", the sequence will be shown in full screen.
If you enter "0.5", it will show half of the size of the sequence.
If you enter "2", it will double the size of the sequence.
It will enable you to create and apply different styles to your items.
Style > Create: You are in the Style Editor:
* See more on "How do I edit a Style?"
> Click on CONFIG icon
Don't forget to enter the Label. You can also enter the Description, the Tags, ...
Go to Style Editor and select the element you wish to style: Background, Player Position, Article, Button, Image, UI Botton and UI color.
Go to Sequence Edit: Skin_id, and select the Style you want to affect.
Go to the Style tab on the Inspector and select a style for the button.
* Videos and audios cannot have a style.
A proper way to organize your workflow.
It's a list of your uploaded medias.
You can manage your medias and upload new ones. Each media is represented by: ID, icon of your type of media, label, date of upload and tags.
Each media can be duplicated, deleted, visualized, and edited.
It's a list of the sequences you have created.
Each sequence is represented by: ID, icon, label, date of upload, and tags.
Each sequence can be duplicated, deleted, and edited. It also gives direct access to the 3WDOC Editor.
It's a list of your WDOCs. You can edit them and create new ones.
Each WDOC is represented by: ID, icon, label, date of upload, and tags.
Each WDOC can be duplicated, deleted, and edited.
Some clues …
The media don't have a temporality on overlay. You will have to create a button to be able to launch the video.
label. On its Properties, enter 0 in start and 0 in stop.TcOverlayed and define a value (like a keyword, for example "my-video").label. In Actions choose TcOverlay and enter the same value that you defined for the video ("my-video").You have to create a button with the Action Native action.
In Value you can choose between Ctime (to put up a stopwatch), Fwd (to forward on the timeline), Mute (put the sound off), Pause, Play (launch the sequence), Rwd , Screensize, Sndminus (lower the volume), Sndplus(increase the volume), Stop. In Type, select UI.
(These termes come from the JQuery feature)
HTML5 is a new language so there are some points to be aware of.
We recommend you to use the last version of each browser, although all these versions are compatible:
You will be able to watch a WDOC from an iPad. 3WDOC has, so far, some limits that you need to know:
The videos and audios placed on a timeline (having a duration), won't be displayed.
What is the alternative?
You will be able to watch videos and audios on overlay. This means that you will have to create a button to activate this action. (Go to "How to create a video on overlay?")
Some questions about your account.
For the moment there is no automatic procedure, you can only drop us a mail to info@3wdoc.com to ask to delete your account and it will be done.
What if (some troubleshootings)
There is limited connection time if you are not doing anything in the 3WDOC Studio. You will be disconnected after an average time of more or less 25 minutes.
Like for any webpage, we advise you to empty the cache of your browser for time to time. After a Save action before clicking on the Preview button, empty the cache in order to visualize the modifications.
If after this action you still don't preview any change, refresh the browser.
One thing to remember is that if you register for instance www.mydomain.com as your domain and install the 3WDOC Studio at www.mydomain.com/my-studio/, you will have to access it by this exact address.
If you try to access to it by mydomain.com/my-studio/ it will not work, because it is ANOTHER DOMAIN.
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