UPDATE
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The list below will not be updated anymore.
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(Last update: 24 May 2011)
Keys
: Will be supported in a future version
: Being evaluated
: Will not be supported
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Playback
- Image rotation by 90°, 180°, 270°.
- Arbitrary image rotation
- Full screen mode with only playback and drawing controls
- Being able to fastforward more than 200% when using high-speed camera footage, to go back to normal speed.
- Being able to specify a different playback speed between key images
- Display key image markers in working zone bar in addition to navigation bar
Key images
- Display of the drawings, chronos, path, within the key images thumbnails
- Textual list of key images
- Keyboard shortcuts to insert key images with predefined titles
Drawings
- Keyboard shortcut to select a drawing tool
- Pencil tool : Snap to straight line with Shift key modifier
- Line tool : Snap to horizontal / vertical lines with Shift key modifier
- Circle tool and rectangle tool
- Spotlight tool
- Handling pen pressure for graphic tablets
- Snap image tool to borders
- Wireframe character / biomechanical model placed over the image (19 points system or other models)
- A Preference to tell the line tool to stay alive when changing frames
- Snap image tool to borders
- Drawings that are visible from a given image until the end of the video
- Visual indication when the mouse is over a drawing
- Cursor options other than the hand
- Copy and paste drawings from one frame to another
- Change cursor when on top of magnifier area
- Being able to specify the font family for angles and labels
- Measuring a line that would span over several images
- Font size picker for angle tool
- Text color picker for angle
- Text color picker for labels and stopwatches
- Triangle tool
Stopwatches
- Cadence tool to track the evolution of tempo in cyclic performances (running, swimming, cycling, etc.)
- Indicator on the stopwatch graphic when passing a key image
- Stopwatch that can be reused for measuring multiple times
- Split times / lap times (Covered by Cadence tool)
Tracking paths
- 3 point tracking (angle)
- Being able to use another track as the origin of coordinates.
- Autotracking spotlight tool
- Autotracking magnifier
- 2 point tracking (line)
- More options in the line style picker
Grids
- Being able to measure length and angles on grids
- A thumbnail displaying the aspect of the video under the perspective grid as if it were seen from above
- Being able to tie the grid position with key images, and morph between them
- Being able to tie the perspective grid with the classic grid
Image filters
- Edges only
- Color Invert
- Grayscale
Special effects
- Motion extraction (athlete agaist blank background)
- Chronophotography (kinogram merged into a common reconstructed background)
- Superposition (merging two videos into a common reconstructed background)
- Wide angle (athlete integrated back onto all background information available)
- Image stabilization
- Anonymizer (detect faces and apply a blur on them).
- Smooth slow motion
Data visualization
- Table display
Notational analysis
- Match sheet or description form with customizable and movable fields / controls
- A system to index small sequences inside long videos
Synchronisation
- Create a video insert of one video on top of the other, retaining sync and navigation control. Possibly hide the original screen.
- Support vertical alignement in dual export
- Send several images from one video to a single frame of the other video as observational references.
- A button to lock tools while synchronising. Actions on one video are reported on the other
- Compensate for differing frame rates even during frame by frame operation
- When blending is enabled, Dual Export to only create a single, blended video / image
- Dual Sequence export
Capture
- Various saving modes ( all manual, predefined time, using a buffer, etc)
- In dual capture, a common controls bar to start recording simultaneously
- Pre-roll recording
- Encoding profile picker
- Having more than 2 capture sources simultaneously
File import
- DPA files (Dartfish Mediabook)
- Files from podiatrics platforms
- Display data files in their own screen, so they can be time browsed, synchronized, overlaid on video
- Mixing several .kva files
- Audio support as input
- Possibility to load an image sequence as a video
- storyboard / dartclip Dartfish files
Streaming data import
- Accelerometers data from smartphones
- Heart rate monitors
- Live import and superposition of data on current video
Saving
- Managing audio comments
- Concept of projects
Export for publishing
- Export to ODF presentation or ODF text document
- Being able to choose between several templates
- Export to Microsoft Word or PowerPoint formats
Export for Multimedia
- Flash player with video and key images
- CD / DVD burning
- Silverlight player
- Flash player with the ability to edit drawings and comments
Workspace organization
- Being able to minimize screens without closing them
- Support for 4 playback screens
- Explorer tab with tagging system and categories of videos
- Explorer tab with file shortcuts (in addition to folders shortcuts)
- Explorer tab with integrated file search
General
- Mono Version (Linux + Mac OS X)
- Portable version (Usable from a USB drive)
- Support for remote controls
- (Explorer) New tab with shortcuts folders.
- (Explorateur) Nouvel onglet avec dossiers favoris.
- (Général) Pouvoir lancer le programme en ligne de commande avec des switches.