CELL STILL WINDOWS

 

DOMAIN: TITLES (WITH AUDIO ONLY) AND MENUS (WITH AND W/O AUDIO)

 

PGC motion to still feature (available only in MENUS) automatically selects the frame to be used as still but, VobBlanker also allows to manually select the Frame, from the selected cell or from an external VOB or BMP.

 

Cell Still operation open a new window:

 

This window can be opened using the still button or the popup menu (mouse right click). in the Cells  area of Cells dlg window

 

MOTION2STILL Window

 

This window is an integration of DVD2AVIdg110 (DVDpreview class done by jeanl) in VobBlanker. In the upper part the preview controls are located and in the bottom part the original buttons of DVD2AVI can be shown.

 

 

MOTION2STILL control area

I-Frame selection is done from this area.

 

 

On the left side of this area there are some info fields and some playback controls.

- Slider: Allow the user to move across the selected Cell.

- Play/Stop: Starts/Stops playback of the cell.

- Info: Opens DVD2AVI info window

- Next/Prev: VobBlanker looks for the next/prev VOBU and displays it in preview area. This is useful to mark the selected frame in custom mode.

- Sector: absolute from the beginning of the VOB and relative (from the beginning of the cell)

- GOP type (closed, self-contained or open)

- Cell elapsed time

At the bottom of this area there are two additional controls

- Keep DAR on preview: Keeps DAR in preview area, if unchecked, the whole area is filled.

- Play at actual fps. Playback is done at the required speed.

On the right side of the dialog, the I-Frame selection controls are shown.

From the combobox, the following possibilities are offered:

 

    - Custom: Allows to manually select (using mark button) the desired I-Frame in the current cell

    - First: Use the first frame of the selected cell.

    - Middle: Use the middle frame of the selected cell.

    - Last: Use the last frame of the selected cell.

    - Auto: Automatically selects the largest (coded in MPEG-2) frame.

    - Default: Use the global default settings.

    - File: Selects the I-Frame from an external file (VOB or BMP)

 

Some words about File mode:

- If the selected file is a bmp one, MuxMan is used to encode the file in a VOB still, and has to be configured in  Tools configuration dialog. Temporary folder is required to store the still in VOB format. Note VobBlanker never cleans this folder.

- Drag & Drop a file (bmp or VOB) is allowed. VobBlanker will create inmediatly the VOB file (in the case of a bmp) and will open the file in the preview pane.

- The I-Frame selected in the VOB is always the first one.

 

At the bottom of the right side of the dialog, there are two additional controls

- BMP: Allows the extraction of a bmp file from the current frame.

- Keep audio: Selects if the still cell is going to have the same audio as the original or it is a silent cell. Note that in Titles domain, motion2still without audio is not supported.

DVD2AVI original controls area

 

This area contains the original DVDAVI controls. The slider marks in blue the position of the cell in the VOB. Using this slider the preview navigates through the whole VOB, but in an uncontrolled way.