UI: New Skin
The Paint skin has been updated to provide a better user experience.
Clip creation
A new clip is created after the definition of in and out points. You can do that both in Live and Recorder mode. Then assign the clip to a button (are blinking at this moment). Unused buttons are in green. Red buttons are already assigned. Reassignment causes the original clip to be lost and its footage might become unlocked.
The In/Out points of the clip can be redefined, just press and hold the In/Out buttons until it blinks (~2 seconds).
Each clip remembers the camera which was selected at the time of clip creation. To redefine the camera, which is selected automatically with the clip, press and hold the camera button until it blinks (~2 seconds).
Clip playback
You can play clip to play at several playback rates. You have buttons for playback with nominal speed and slow speed. Other rates can be reached using Jog/Shuttle wheel or you can assign any rate to the Jog/Shuttle buttons (See Config Editor, Jog/Shuttle button assignment).
During playback you can change between cameras (if they have been recorded).
Clip slow playback rate presets
You can hange the playback rate of the button with slow speed with predefined playback rates. You can choose one of these speeds from the popup menu attached to this slow play button.
These playback rate presets are defined in the configuration file Default playback rates mapping:
<PlayRatePreset>
<PlayRate>25</PlayRate>
<PlayRate>33</PlayRate>
<PlayRate>33</PlayRate>
<PlayRate>50</PlayRate>
<PlayRate>66</PlayRate>
<PlayRate>75</PlayRate>
<PlayRatePreset>
Clip tools menu
The clip menu is available from the Tools button next to the clip buttons. Most of the menu items are also accessible from the popup menu invoked by right-clicking on a Clip button.
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Edit chromakey: This is a global feature. See Chromakey section. |
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| Rename*: Specify a name for each clip, which is shown on the clip button below bank identifier. Press the clip Tools button and choose the Rename action, limited to 15 characters. | |
| Delete: Removes the selected clip and might unlock footage. | |
| Copy: Duplicated the selected clip. As when you define new clip, the clip buttons begins to blink. Define the button for the new clip. | |
| Swap: Changes the button for the selected clip. The clip buttons begin to blink. Select one. If the button is already assigned to any clip, these two clips swap their buttons. Otherwise, the clip is simply moved to the new position. | |
| Exit clip: Deselects the current clip. Currently playing footage remains the same. Helps define a new clip near an existing one, without having to jog back from the very end of the footage. | |
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Take Snapshot: Available when a clip is selected. Takes snapshot of current frame of the clip, including all graphics, and saves it to a file located in the Documents folder. |
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*Footnote: Rename The rename dialog supports two modes:
With keyboard Without virtual keyboard The rename dialog mode is controlled by element VirtualKeyboardEnabled in config.xml file. <Window> If you want to rename more clips, there is no need to close this dialog. Just select another clip by pressing the clip button and update its name. |
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User Time
User time is an optional timecode generated in your computer. There is a simple control tool to set and adjust the time. For example, the user timecode can be used as a match time for football games. The current time is based on your computer time, which is recorded together with video.
Set up time adjustments
Press + or – to increment or decrement the time. Holding the button longer makes the adjusting faster.
Predefined values, like 00:00 reset the time to this value and starts counting. The preset values can be defined in configuration file.
You can Start/Stop counting the time.
Configuration
User Time settings can be configured at Config Editor’s User Interface page. Following options are available:
- Enabled - enables or disables user time
- Auto Start - when enabled, user time starts automatically on application start. When disabled, user has to start the time manually.
- Time Value - time value when started automatically. Can be 0:0 or current system time.
The preset values are user configurable at Advanced page of the Config Editor. Locate the UserTime element:
<UserTime>
<Enabled value="1"/>
<PresetTime>00:00</PresetTime>
<PresetTime>45:00</PresetTime>
<PresetTime>90:00</PresetTime>
<PresetTime>daytime</PresetTime>
</UserTime>
Each element <PresetTime> is one preset value.
The time format is hh:mm:ss, mm:ss or "daytime" for current time.
Clip Control
Interface
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Clip. Press to select the clip. |
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(Red Square) Clip with saved drawings. The drawings will be loaded and replayed together with the clip. |
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(Pink Square) Clip imported from ChyronHego Virtual Placement that contains data from TRACAB system. Or clip with imported TRACAB data. Or with Automatic player tracking applied. |
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Selected clip. Press to rewind the clip. |
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The position is not occupied by any clip. |
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Free to assign new clip. |
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Occupied. Current clip may be overwritten. |
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Switch to live input. |
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Camera switch. Press and hold for a few seconds to redefine camera associated with a clip. |
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Missing Genlock warning indicator. |
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In point not used. Press to set In point. |
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The current time is after the In point. |
| In point. Mark the first frame of the clip | |
| Current time is before the In point. Press and hold for a few seconds to redefine the In point. | |
| Out point not used. Press to set Out point. | |
| The current time code is before the Out point. Press and hold for a few seconds to redefine the Out point. | |
| Out point. Mark the last frame of the clip | |
| Current time is after the Out point. Press and hold for a few seconds to redefine the Out point. | |
| Exit clip. Press to exit clip and return to record train. | |
| Play clip. Press to replay the clip if it was paused at the Out point. | |
| Slower playback. Press to replay the clip at a slower rate if it was paused at the Out point. | |
| Pause clip. | |
| Play backward clip. | |
| Fast Jog/Shuttle indicator. Press the leftmost Jog/Shuttle button to switch this option. It speeds up the shuttle up to 60x and jog 50x | |
| Clip tools. | |
| Actual timecode in format HH:MM::SS.Frame. It must be enabled in the config. |
Clip buttons with clip thumbnail
The skin allows you to assign thumbnail to clip buttons. Cue the desired video frame within the clip, invoke popup on the clip button and pick Grab Thumbnail menu item. The current frame is grabbed and a thumbnail is created. You can re-grab the thumbnail anytime later or clear it by picking Clear Thumbnail from the popup menu on the button.
Timebar
There is a timebar just above the video area. It visualizes clip playback progress together with important playback changes in the clip.
- Green bar: Visualizes the position in the clip. You can hover on this bar to expose the yellow handle.
- Yellow handle: You can drag through the clip to jump to a different part of video.
- Orange dashed pattern: Shows slow motion region.
- Red block (bright, wide): Shows paused clip.
- Red block (dark, thin): Shows a pause which requires a user input to resume the playback.
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Clip Name: Inherits the name that you have added to the currently selected clip |
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Shuttle Handle: Click and drag the handle left and right, in order to fast forward or backward through the selected clip. |
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| Show timeline: Opens the timeline. | |
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Keyframe (white diamonds) jumps to selected keyframe |
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Right click on a tool instance row and quickly delete it. |
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Click anywhere in the timeline header (where the numbers are) to jump to that frame in a clip |
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(Clip icon) Revert back to simple view. |
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(Keyframe diamond with strikethrough) Show/hide keyframes. |
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(Green bar) Click and drag on the start or end of a tool instance and drag it left or right, in order to extend or shorten the production length of the clip. |
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Zoom in and out of the timeline. |
Timeline
When you have added graphics to a clip, you can now view those graphics and their keyframes inside a new timeline.
To open the timeline:
- Press the timeline button.
- The timeline opens for the selected clip over the clip banks.
Each tool instance in the timeline allows you to select it, which will highlight it in the preview window, you can see in the example below, the column on the player is selected, whilst the other columns are dimmed down:
UI: Default skin
The default skins are primarily designed for presentation using large touchscreens, which exist in versions 7 of Paint.
Clips administration dialog
Open the Administration menu above Clear button and select Clips Administration menu item. The Clip administration dialog is shown next to the clip palette. Clips administration contains all existing clips.
Create a new clip
- Press the New button in the controls panel.
- Select the camera from which you'd like the clip to be created.
- The playback is stopped and you can browse through the recorded footage to select In/Out points of the new clip.
- You can define a thumbnail for any clip. Just browse to the desired video frame and press the “Grab Thumbnail” button. You can also change the clip name.
Change properties of an existing clip
Select the clip and change In/Out points, thumbnail, name.
Clip palette administration
Use Drag&Drop to move clips from Clips Administration to Clip palette and other way. Live camera inputs have their own icons. They can be presented in the Clip palette.
Remove all clips
Open the popup menu on the clip palette in the administration dialog and choose “Remove all clips” menu item. When the action is confirmed, all clips are removed and the disk space allocated for their footage is freed.
Changing the Skin
If you were provided with some other skins or you have your own, you can choose between them in the following two ways:
- Config Editor > General
- The skin will be applied next time Paint is launched. Restart app to relaunch.)
- Main menu > Change Skin…
- App restarts automatically as soon as you select another skin.