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Hi and thanks again for the bug report !

When the speed slider moves on its own, it means that the load on the program is too high...
The problem is when each frame takes more time to decode than the inter-frame delay...
To prevent a deadlock with images accumulating in the decoding queue, we drop frames and slow down the playback artificially.
If I recall correctly, each time we have to drop 12 frames in a row, the slider moves down 5%.

Seeing that your camcorder is HD 1080p (much more information to decode than with standard definition), I can understand the dropping... Now if it records at 60 fps it will be even harder to keep up the pace.

Right now I'm afraid I don't have a solution... And this is quite annoying since the HD formats will soon be everywhere...
What are the spec of your computer ? (CPU, Memory...)

If you select a very tiny portion of the video (around 3.5 seconds) you should enter the analysis mode and be able to scroll back and forth smoothly. (beware, it takes up a lot of RAM)
If you want to be able to use this mode on longer sequences, you can alter the settings in "Option > Preferences > Play/Analyze".

"13. A way to measure an angle"

For a single frame, you should be able to do that using the Angle tool.
Or are you referring to something else ?

Hmm... that's an ugly bug.

I experienced it once, but I couldn't reproduce it.
Can you write down:
- the image size of the video (right click + properties + summary tab)
- your screen resolution
- is the image filling the player screen or can you see black background all around ?
- what happens when you double click the image after you laid down the line (does it move by itself ? does saving works ?).

thanks

You can use VirtualDub to apply a deinterlacing filter to the video.
I think it may interest other people, so I just wrote a whole topic on one possible method to give it more exposure.

Hi Mike,

For the first problem, it sounds a lot like you are experiencing interlacing.
The video is being recorded interlaced, each frame has only half the scan lines: one frame will have even lines and next frame will have odd lines. Symptom : the motion seem to zigzag.

Interlacing is not a problem while the video doesn't have very fast motions and is played back at normal speed (the eye and the brain does the deinterlacing).
For sport in slow motion, it can quicly become a huge problem.

See if your camera has a progressive mode to record video. (all lines on each frame)
I'll also see how hard it would be to implement deinterlacing directly in the software. It is causing problem in a lot of scenarios and I believe it will be a must have.

The second problem, file not displayed in the explorer control, is probably simply caused by the file extension not registered here.
This is a 3 seconds fix, just tell me what the file extension is, I'll add it to the list.

The next update will probably be out in late october...

It will contains new drawing tools (Ok, ok, you can see an incredibly low quality demo video here for one of them )

I will send an update mail to anyone that has registered on the 'download' page.

As for future updates, there are plans and prioritization needs to be made.
To that end, I'll add a new topic like I did in the french forum, so you guys can express your top priorities.

Hopefully as the project gains momentum other developpers will eventually become interested in contributing and things will move faster.