Videoporama interface
The Title & Image Tab

The Title & Image tab

The tab "Title & image" is use to define the sequence plan :

TabZoom

The Zoom and travel tab is made by 3 parts :

The part of managing image of the sequence

r1 Allow to rotate image of a quarter to the left.
r2 Allow to rotate image of a quarter to the right.
gimp Allow to open image in an external image editor (depend on image editor you have define in configuration dialog box).
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Allow to open Open image file dialog box to replace current image by one other.
refresh Allow to refresh image (reload from disk). It's useful if you make modification using an external image editor.

The part of managing list of plans

The plans works in two parts, first a mobile part (from previous plan to current plan, fixe part) and then the fixe part (For the first plan of the sequence, the mobile part is always set to 0 second).

The plans are display vertically from top to bottom. Each plan (with the mobile and fixe part) is shown by a picture of the fixe part.

The managing of plans is realised by the two icons of the small tool bar located just over the plan list :
addTo add a new plan in the sequence.
del To remove the selected plan in the list.

The plan order can be change by using the arrow :
left To move up the selected plan of one position.
rigth To move down the selected plan of one position..

The configuration part of selected plan

The configuration part of selected plan is composed by to sub-part :
The Cropping part
The cropping of plan is use to select a sub part of full image to define it as plan.
The cropping is defined by 3 properties :
It's possible to define those three value directly or by using the zoom button. In this case, The zoom & crop dialog box appear.
Notice : The zoom, X position and Y position can be shown in percent or in pixel. This is define in the Configuration box
The Animation part
Animation settings :
Text This button is use to create texts which will be displayed only during the fixe plan. A click on this button open the Texts definition dialog box

The part display informations about image

The information on the image are read from the EXIF metadata of the photo. That is why, if it's about an image produced with an image editor, it is likely that no information is shown.

Informations display are  :
Original date/time The date and time where the photo was taken.
This information is valid only if date and time parameters was correcty set on the camera.
Description
The description field of the image as it was define by Windows exploreur of EXIF editors on Linux.
Camera
Mark and model of the camera.
Artist / Copyright
Fusion of both fields Artist and Copyright. According to cameras, often the only one of both fields is informed.
Image size
The image size in pixel.
ISO Speed
The ISO value used by the camera during the recording.
Focal aperture
The opening of focal value of the objective used by the camera during the recording.
Exposure time
The duration of opening of focal of the objective used by the camera during the recording.

Using Shots in Videoporama

See also

Videoporama 0.8.2 - March 2011 - Available translation : img