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 Posted: 25/09/2008 20:07:21 Post subject: Videophile II - Working with .... |
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Videophile II - Working with ....
Videophile II Functionalities
| Quote: | An overview :
- Adding files to a library :
- Creating Segments
- Finding Files – Tags and Manual Searches
- Tagging Files
- Un-tagging files
- Linking Tags
- Creating and Saving Views
- Playlists - What is a .... / Working with ....
- Running External Applications
- Starting VideoPhile II from the Command Line
- TV Mode
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- Adding files to a library :
How to add files to a library ?
- Creating Segments
- Segments
Segments are small sections of a file and you can create as many as you want on any file. For example, and again using our football illustration, a video file of a match might have segments created that show only the goals from the game, or perhaps moments of particular player skill.
- Creating Segments
- Select the clip/movie from wich you want to make a segment from.
One way is to click  in the mini player.
- File details are updated and the minni player is ready to go.
Move your mouse cursor over the green dot. You notice the shape of the cursor is changed into a pair of cissors.
- Drag the slide bar to determine the beginning of the segment.
Press the green dot to confirm.
The beginning is set.
- You can change the beginning by clicking the right or left pointed arrow untill you are satisfied.
- Determine the end of the segment goes identical.
Drag the slide bar to determine the end of the segment.
Click the red dot to confirm.
The end is now set.
- You can change the ending by clicking the right or left pointed arrow untill you are satisfied.
- Save this new segment by clicking the
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- The segment is now listed.
For each clip in the library a list of segments (if there are any) is kept.
You can create as many segments as you want.
In stead of playing the whole clip/movie you can watch only the highlights from that clip/movie.
- Tagging Segments
There are two ways you can tag the segments you made.
- Via the file menu :
- From the File menu, select 'Show Segments in Files'.
Or click this  on the "Library Browser Toolbar".
- Only the segments are shown in the list.
Now drag and drop the icons to the tag as you normally would with the entire file.
- Via the "segments list" :
- Open the file wich contains/for wich you have created the segments.
The segments for that particular file are listed here :
- Select the segment, drag it and drop it on the tag you want to give it.
Finding Files – Tags and Manual Searches
There are essentially two ways to locate files. The first is to employ the Tags you have defined:
- Tag Searches
Finding Files
To locate all files that possess a particular Tag, locate that Tag in the Library Browser and drag and drop it onto the File Browser.
Appending Files
To locate all files that possess either Tag A or Tag B or Tag C, drag and drop those tags onto the File Browser, one after the other, whilst holding down the SHIFT key.
Filtering To Tags
To locate all files that possess Tag A AND Tag B, drag and drop Tag A onto the File Browser and then drag and drop Tag B whilst holding down the CTRL key.
Filtering Out Tags
To locate all files that possess Tag A but not Tag B, drag and drop Tag A onto the File Browser and then drag and drop Tag B whilst holding down the ALT key.
Summary
Through the correct sequence of dragging and dropping, it is very easy to quickly locate a very specific file, assuming that the contents of the Library have been diligently tagged.
Example:
Using our football example, you could drag and drop the Tag ‘Champions League Final’ to see all files relating to those matches. Next, if you dragged and dropped ‘Real Madrid’ whilst holding CTRL, you would have filtered the set of results to Finals involving Real Madrid. Finally, you could drag and drop the Country ‘Germany’ whilst holding down ALT to see all Champions League Finals where Real Madrid played non-German opposition.
- Manual Searches
Tagging Files
Drag and Drop from the File Browser to the required Tag in the Library Browser. If an unselected file is dropped, only that file will be tagged. If a selected file is dropped, it and all others that are selected will be tagged, hence it is possible to tag many files in one operation.
Un-tagging files
Drag and Drop from the File Browser to the required Tag in the Library Browser, whilst holding down the CTRL key.
Linking Tags
Depending on the Tags you choose to describe the contents of a Library, you may find it useful to ‘tag’ a Tag. This is achieved by linking one Tag to another and can be very useful. Consider the following:
You have a Library of footage relating to football and one of the Tag Categories you wish to establish relates to team names. You might well have values in this Category for AC Milan, Arsenal, Manchester United, Real Madrid, etc. and accordingly tag a bunch of files with one or more of those values. These are referred to as Explicit Tags.
Now, let’s assume that you have another Category called Country, whose purpose is to identify the country from which a team hails. You could locate all files tagged with Real Madrid and additionally tag those files, explicitly, with ‘Spanish’ but there is a better way and that is to link the Tag ‘Real Madrid’ to the Tag ‘Spanish’. The Tag ‘Spanish’ is referred to as an Implicit Tag, in this instance, since the files themselves are only tagged ‘Real Madrid’: It is the fact that ‘Real Madrid’ is itself tagged ‘Spanish’ that makes the ‘Spanish’ Tag Implicit.
To link one tag to another, drag and drop the Explicit tag to the Implicit tag whilst holding down the CTRL key. A new entry will appear in the Library tree, representing the link from the Explicit tag to the Implicit one.
Creating and Saving Views
A View is essentially an automated sequence of drag-and-drop operations from the Library Browser to the File Browser. Views are automatically generated whilst you work: the sequence of drag-and-drops you perform are Stored in the Browser History drop-down list on the File Browser’s toolbar. You can save this History by selecting ‘Save this View’ from the drop down menu adjacent to the Refresh button.; a new item is created in the Saved Views folder, where you can give the View a name of your choice.
Example:
- Open ‘Manchester United’ (via drag and drop)
- Filter to ‘Premiership’
- Filter to ‘Wayne Rooney’ (drag and drop whilst pressing CTRL)
- Save this View as ‘Wayne Rooney’s Premiership Goals’
Note :
By default, the most recent action is selected in the drop-down list (in this case ‘Filter to Wayne Rooney’) but it is possible to select any of the previous actions and create a view based upon the actions up to that point.
Playlists - What is a .... / Working with ....
- Overview
By default, the Playlist automatically comprises all files found as a result of dragging and dropping to the File Browser. However, by making Selections, it is possible to restrict the Playlist to just those items that are selected.
The order in which the files will play is determined by the status of the Shuffle setting. If set to ‘off’, they will play in the order in which they appear in the File Browser. If set to ‘on’, the files will playback randomly, with no repetition of any file until the end of the Playlist has been reached.
Once any given file has finished playing, the next file is automatically played unless the user is in the process of setting A-B start- and end-points. In this case the current file will repeat until the user manually advances to the next Playlist entry, through the DOWN ARROW. This behaviour is intentional.
- Running a Playlist
To Run a playlist, either
- Select ‘Run Playlist’ from the Tools menu
- press CTRL-S on the keyboard
- click the button on the File Browser toolbar
- Playlist Keyboard Controls
See here : Videphile II - Shortcuts you can use in .... for a complete overview of short cut keys to use in Videophile II.
Running External Applications
Videophile can be configured to use external applications to process a file. The following freeware applications are currently supported:
- Media Info (for getting detailed file format information)
- VirtualDub (for processing AVI files)
- MPGTX (for automatically trimming MPEG files)
- DIVFIX++ (for repairing broken AVI files)
- Digital Video Repair (for repairing broken AVI files)
- ASFBin (for automatically trimming WMV files)
- AVI Demux (for processing and converting multiple file formats)
- GraphEdit
- GSPot (for codec identification)
- FLVTool (for trimming FLV files)
Note:
- The visibility or otherwise of these applications on context menus is determined by the extension of the File that is right-clicked on. For instance, the menu item ‘Cut with ASFBin’ only ever appears in the case of WMV file extensions.
- At the moment it is not possible to configure the paths to the external apps so if you want to use these features the applications have to exist in these paths:
| Quote: | Media Info
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\MediaInfo\MediaInfo.exe
VirtualDub
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\VirtualDub\ VirtualDub.exe
MPGTX
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\Movica\mpgtx.exe
DIVFIX++
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\DivFix++\DivFix++.exe
Digital Video Repair
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\Digital Video Repair\DVR.exe
ASFBin
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\ASFBin\asfbin.exe
AVIDemux
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\avi demux\avidemux2_gtk.exe
GraphEdit
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\GraphEdit
FLVTool (for trimming FLV files)
C:\Program Files\Multimedia\FLVTool
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Starting VideoPhile II from the Command Line
See here : Videophile II - Command line options for .... for a complete description of this feature.
TV Mode
A mode where the interface’s appearance changes slightly to suit situations where the program interface is viewed on a TV set and where program interaction will most likely be performed via a remote control device.
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| Posted: 26/09/2008 20:12:56 Post subject: Videophile II - Working with .... |
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Creating and Saving Views
A View is essentially an automated sequence of drag-and-drop operations from the Library Browser to the File Browser. Views are automatically generated whilst you work: the sequence of drag-and-drops you perform are Stored in the Browser History drop-down list on the File Browser’s toolbar. You can save this History by selecting ‘Save this View’ from the drop down menu adjacent to the Refresh button.; a new item is created in the Saved Views folder, where you can give the View a name of your choice.
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should say:
"are Stored in the Current View drop-down list on the File Browser’s toolbar. You can save this sequence by selecting "Save This View" ;-)
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Videophile can be configured to use external applications to process a file. The following freeware applications are currently supported:
* Media Info (for getting detailed file format information)
* VirtualDub (for processing AVI files)
* MPGTX (for automatically trimming MPEG files)
* DIVFIX++ (for repairing broken AVI files)
* Digital Video Repair (for repairing broken AVI files)
* ASFBin (for automatically trimming WMV files)
* AVI Demux (for processing and converting multiple file formats)
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Edit required for new entries:
GSpot (for codec identification)
FLVTool (for trimming FLV files)
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