From cca2cd35ad7ef20ae7d124e06d05e896c4d8f9b6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Klaus Schmidinger Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2012 12:19:51 +0100 Subject: Improved editing TS recordings --- MANUAL | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'MANUAL') diff --git a/MANUAL b/MANUAL index fb28462b..272659cc 100644 --- a/MANUAL +++ b/MANUAL @@ -367,13 +367,13 @@ Version 1.6 - 7, 9 Jump back and forward between editing marks. Replay goes into still mode after jumping to a mark. - 8 Positions replay at a point 3 seconds before the current or next - "start" mark and starts replay. + "begin" mark and starts replay. - 2 Start the actual cutting process. Editing marks are represented by black, vertical lines in the progress display. - A small black triangle at the top of the mark means that this is a "start" + A small black triangle at the top of the mark means that this is a "begin" mark, and a triangle at the bottom means that this is an "end" mark. - The cutting process will save all video data between "start" and "end" marks + The cutting process will save all video data between "begin" and "end" marks into a new file (the original recording remains untouched). The new file will have the same name as the original recording, preceded with a '%' character (imagine the '%' somehow looking like a pair of scissors ;-). Red bars in the @@ -382,7 +382,7 @@ Version 1.6 The video sequences to be saved by the cutting process are determined by an "even/odd" algorithm. This means that every odd numbered editing mark (i.e. - 1, 3, 5,...) represents a "start" mark, while every even numbered mark (2, 4, + 1, 3, 5,...) represents a "begin" mark, while every even numbered mark (2, 4, 6,...) is an "end" mark. Inserting or toggling a mark on or off automatically adjusts the sequence to the right side of that mark. @@ -395,11 +395,13 @@ Version 1.6 version of the recording you can use the '8' key to jump to a point just before the next cut and have a look at the resulting sequence. - Currently editing marks can only be set at I-frames, which typically is - every 12th frame. So editing can be done with a resolution of roughly half - a second. A "start" mark marks the first frame of a resulting video - sequence, and an "end" mark marks the last frame of that sequence. - + Currently editing marks can only be set at I-frames, which typically appear + every half of a second to a second. A "begin" mark marks the first frame of + a resulting video sequence, and an "end" mark marks the last frame of that + sequence. Note that the actual frame indicated by the an "end" mark will + not be included in the edited version of the recording. That's because every + recording (and every sequence of an edited recording) begins with an I-frame + and ends right before the next I-frame. An edited recording (indicated by the '%' character) will never be deleted automatically in case the disk runs full (no matter what "lifetime" it has). -- cgit v1.2.3