Table of Contents
- What does the value "Skip n frames" do?
- How does the discard functionality work?
- What does the Save Output Images do? Why would I not do that?
- What does the Display Playback toggle do?
- What's the ROI settings?
- How do I know if there are any new versions available?
- Where is my output folder?
- What files are supported?
What does the value "Skip n frames" do?
This value represents the number of frames the program should skip. Setting this to eg. 100, means it will process frame 0, 100, 200, and so on, and ignore the rest.
How does the discard functionality work?
The discard functionality calculates the average contrast across the entire cropped image. If the resulting contrast is too low (ie. the brightest and darkest pixel values from the average are too close), it will filter this image out. Higher values mean more images will be discarded, and vice versa. Setting the Discard Threshold to 0 will effectively disable the contrast filtering.
What does the Save Output Images do? Why would I not do that?
Disabling the saving of the cropped images allow you to fine-tune your parameters before actually processing your files. This was done because, depending on your settings, you can end up with thousands of cropped images.
What does the Display Playback toggle do?
This tells Video2Crops that it should not display the video playback and the cropped images preview. This can be useful on weaker devices with not a lot of processing capabilities. Beware: disabling this will result in you effectively getting no meaningful feedback indicating the processing is done.
What's the ROI settings?
The Region Of Interest (ROI) indicated the crop zone you would like to use. From the underlying settings, you can set the vertical and horizontal placement of the ROI bounding box in addition to its size.
Note that there are no limits or checks on the ROI size; setting this value to anything higher than the lowest dimension of your video will lead to unexpected output.
How do I know if there are any new versions available?
Check out the "Info" tab; There's built-in version checking and self-updating functionality that you can find there.
Where is my output folder?
Your output folder can be located by going to "Info" -> "Project Folder". This will be the same folder Video2Crops is installed in/executed from.
User-defined output paths are on the TODO.
What files are supported?
Currently, only .mp4, .mov and .avi are supported, with no foreseeable plans of supporting additional formats