Device
Support
SmackTalk!
Holiday is a universal binary that
supports the following devices:
| Device Type |
Talk-back
Characters |
Video
Enabled |
| 2G |
YES |
NO |
2nd Gen
iPod Touch* |
YES |
NO |
| 3G |
YES |
NO |
3rd Gen
iPod Touch* |
YES |
YES if on iOS4.0
and
greater |
| 3GS |
YES |
YES if on iOS4.0
and
greater |
| 4G |
YES |
YES, HD |
4th
Gen
iPod Touch |
YES |
YES, HD |
| iPad |
YES |
YES, HD |
* 2nd & 3rd Generation iPod Touches require an external
microphone!
* SmackTalk! Holiday supports iOS 3.1.3 and 3.2, and greater.
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TalkBack
When SmackTalk! Holiday first starts up you are in "TalkBack" mode.
The
"Talk!/Videos" toggle in the upper left has "Talk!" highlighted.
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TalkBack Mode |
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Video Mode |
TalkBack
Mode:
- Say something
and SmackTalk! Holiday will repeat what you say in a munked voice.
Works
in every language!
- Tap
the screen to make the buttons fade away. The buttons are
still active.
- Tap
again to make the buttons fade up.
- Swipe
left or right to go to the next character.
- Tap
a Trigger to play it. It turns green.
- Record Over a
Trigger:
- Hold
a Trigger down.
- Wait
for the
beep to stop.
- Keep Holding down
to record over the trigger
(The Trigger turns red while recording).
- Release
to stop recording.
- Tap
to play.
- Tap
"Pitch" to make the Pitch slider come up.
Make your character's voice go from Freaky to Squeaky in real
time!
Tap
anywhere outside the
popover to make the slider go away.
- Tap
"Speed"
to make the Speed slider come up. Make him talk super slow,
or
super fast in real time. Tap
anywhere outside the popover to make the slider go away.
- Hold
"Record Now" to force SmackTalk! Holiday to record you. Let go to
stop recording.
- Tap
"Say Again" to play back the recording you made.
- Tap
"Settings" to bring up the Settings popover. In it you will
find
"Help", "Customization", "Audio", and "More by Marcus Satellite".
- Tap
"Action!"
to bring up Trigger actions.
- Tap
the
"Talk!/Videos" toggle to switch back and forth between TalkBack and
Video modes.
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Help
You can find the "Help" section in the Settings popover:
- Tap
"Instructions" to
read this help page.
- Tap
"SmackTalk! Holiday
Website" to quit the app and open the SmackTalk! Holiday Website in
Safari.
- Tap
"Email
Support!"
to bring up the Mail Composer. For the best support please
provide as much information as possible.
- Tap
anywhere
outside the Settings popover to dismiss it.
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Customization
You can find the Customization section in the Settings popover.
Here you can customize which features you want enabled.
- "Kid Mode"
is great for young children. It turns off most features,
leaving on only the triggers. This way they can use the
TalkBack and Trigger playback features without inadvertently recording
over the Triggers.
- "Say Again"
will enable/disable the "Say Again" button.
- "Record Now"
will enable/disable the "Record Now" button.
- "Pitch & Speed"
will enable/disable the Pitch and Speed sliders.
- "Sticky Pitch &
Speed" will keep your Pitch
and Speed settings for each character. If you disable this
feature then the character's pitch and speed settings are reset to the
defaults each time you swipe from character to character.
- "Triggers"
enables/disables the Triggers.
- "Trigger Recording"
enables/disables recording over Triggers. You can disable
recording for small children for example.
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More
By Marcus Satellite
Check this section for new apps and music by Marcus Satellite.
Please remember that every
app you purchase, and every great review you leave me, helps me create
totally awesome, original, groundbreaking apps.
Follow me on Twitter:
@marcussatellite
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Trigger
Actions
Tap on "Action!" to bring up the Trigger Action popover:
- Tap
a trigger to play it.
- Tap
"Reset" to erase your recording and reset the Trigger to the bundled
sound.
- Tap
"Make Video" to render this trigger with the current character and
current voice Pitch & Speed settings. Your rendered
video will be saved to your "Video Library".
- iPad users are
presented with a choice of resolutions
to render
video: "480 Medium", "640 Standard" Definition, or "1024 High
Definition". If you tap outside the render resolution popover
it
will cancel the render.
- While your video
is rendering you are presented with
a
status bar, a "Time Elapsed" counter, and an estimated "Time Remaining"
counter.
- Tap
"Cancel"
to
cancel rendering.
- When your video
is finished rendering you can Toggle
the "Talk!/Videos" button to
"Videos" to see your video.
- Tap
anywhere
outside the popover to dismiss it.
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Video
Browse Mode
When the "Talk!/Videos" toggle has "Videos" highlighted you are in
Video Browse Mode. In this mode you can play all your saved
videos and share them with your friends.
- Tap
the VCR
controls on the bottom of the screen to Play, Scrub, and play
Fullscreen.
- Note the Title,
Duration, and Size in MB information
displayed in the upper left. This information is not embedded
in
your video--it's just displayed for your convenience.
- Tap
"Library"
to bring up a table of your Video Library.
- Tap
the left
and right arrows to browse through the videos in your library.
- Tap
"Action!"
to bring up a sheet of actions you can perform on your Videos.
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Video
Library
While in Video Browse Mode Tap
on the "Library" button. A table of all your videos appears.
This is the "Video
Library":
- Select
a
video to see
it.
- Tap
anywhere
outside the popover to dismiss it.
- Videos can be
large
files. The header "Video Library Size" will tell you how much
space you are using. In this example the video library is
using 3.0 MB of space on the device.
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Video
Browse Actions
While in "Video Browse Mode" Tap
the "Action!" button to bring up a sheet of actions you can perform on
the current video:
- Tap
"Rename"
to rename
the current video.
- Tap
"Copy To
Media
Library" to copy the current video to your Media Library.
- Tap
"Upload
To
Facebook" to bring up the Facebook dialog.
- Tap
"Upload
to
YouTube" to bring up the YouTube dialog.
- Tap
"Share by
Email"
to export your video to our servers and email a link to the video to
your friends.
- Tap
"Delete"
to delete
the video.
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Facebook
Upload
When you are logged out of Facebook you can press the "Connect" button
to log into Facebook:
Log in to give SmackTalk! Holiday permission to upload videos to your
Facebook
account. This web view is provided by Facebook--it could look
different in the future:
When you are succesfully logged in you will see:
- Of course,
instead of
"Marcus" your own name will appear.
- When you are
successfully logged in you can Tap "Upload!" to upload your video to
Facebook.
- Videos are large
files. Uploading can take quite a bit of time depending on
your internet connection. WiFi is best, 3G is okay, and Edge
is very slow. If you get an error uploading, check your
connection and try again later. Another option is to email
yourself your video and upload from your desktop computer.
- Tap
"Cancel"
at
anytime to go back to the Video Browse View.
- For your
convenience SmackTalk! Holiday keeps you logged in by default. Tap
"Logout" to
log out and remove your login information.
- SmackTalk! Holiday does
not
modify your Facebook privacy settings in anyway--your default privacy
settings are in effect. If you want to change your privacy
settings for this video you must log into Facebook with your web
browser to do so.
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YouTube
Upload
- Enter
your
username
and password to log in to YouTube. You must fill out each
field to submit your video to YouTube. When you tap in a
field a keyboard will appear. Tap
"Return" on the keyboard to
dismiss it.
- For your
convenience SmackTalk! Holiday will keep your login information as
defaults. You
can Tap
"Logout" to completely
remove this information from the app.
- Tap
"Cancel"
to cancel
the upload.
- Tap
"Upload!"
to begin
the upload.
- Videos are large
files. Uploading can take quite a bit of time
depending on your internet connection. WiFi is best, 3G is
okay, and
Edge is very slow. If you get an error uploading, check your
connection and try again later. Another option is to email
yourself
your video and upload from your desktop computer.
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Share
By Email
When you select the "Share By Email" video action the video, a
thumbnail of the video, and the email html form are first uploaded to
our servers. Then an email composition form is presented to
you. You can edit this form. For example, you might
want to type in a message to your friends, or modify the title.
Just tap anywhere inside the form to edit it.
NOTE: SmackTalk! Holiday videos are encoded for high quality.
They are not encoded for internet streaming. If
your
playback stutters you should download the file to your desktop computer
and then play it. If you want to encode the video for
streaming you have these options:
- Save the video
to your
Media Library, and then share it by email. It will be first
be compressed using Apple's technology. You can also trim the
video.
- Upload the video
to
YouTube.
- Upload the video
to
Facebook.
NOTE: If you have a 4th generation iPod Touch, an iPhone 4, or an iPad
and you render any resolution besides 480 your friends with 2G, 3G,
3GS, and 2nd and 3rd generation iPod Touches will not be able to play
the video in the email form. If your friends tell you they
can't
play the video in your email form consider sharing it with them using
YouTube or Facebook.
NOTE: Videos are large files. Uploading can take quite a bit
of
time
depending on your internet connection. WiFi is best, 3G is
okay, and
Edge is very slow. If you get an error uploading, check your
connection and try again later. Another option is to email
yourself
your video and upload from your desktop computer.
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