How to translate Kid Pix Studio files to a web page is not exactly straightforward. One method is found here. This one is for the Apple MacIntosh version of Kid Pix. I used the PC version so it was all different and this did not work for me. However, it did provide the strategy and Apple QuickTime Pro (PC or Mac) does a good job of extracting the images and sounds from the AVI files that the program produces. You cannot easily produce a true representation of a Kid Pix slideshow on a web site without somehow saving it as a movie file. That is the only way to see the animated effects. The problem with these movie files is that they are very large and slow to download. The PC version lets you save it as an AVI file and the Mac versions saves it as a MOV file (QuickTime format.) I found that the show I wanted to use had AVI files in it, so I sould not save it as an AVI file. Kid Pix Studios (PC version) lets you save puppets, moopies and stampinator projects in AVI format to put them into a slideshow. The Kid Pix drawing files are saved in a BMP format. The odd thing is that the program somehow can associate a sound with the BMP file. QuickTime does a good job on the AVI files but it cannot extract any audio from a BMP file.
Assemble all of the AVI files you want to use in a folder.
Open each in QuickTime Pro. The free player will not work
for this.
Select File/Export and send the movie to a BMP file. It takes
a snapshot of it.
Select File/Export and send the sound to a WAV file.
You should change all of the BMP files to JPG image files. I did
this using the iMac Picture Viewer program. Whatever image editing
program you have should do it.
Insert the files into the templates. You may download the template
files here in either PC or Mac format. See the method above for more detailed instructions
on this part.
The streaming videos were produced using QuickTime Pro. The
KidPix AVI files may simply be exported to the streaming video
format.
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