241 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Cameras and hardware)

Yeah between the camera constantly filming and the app constantly streaming via WiFi they tend to heat up. I have had the same experience using this setup. I don't think it's the app per se, mobile phones don't have great heat dissipation.

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242 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

For jump to time one tricky aspect is the time format that changes based on preferences. Note that you can jump forward/backward by large amounts using the Page down/Page up keyboard shortcuts. If you already know the target point you could also add a key image there and then you can just click it or use CTRL+arrow to jump there.

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243 Reply by joan

(13 replies, posted in General)

Hi, yes it's still possible. Instead of creating the point and right clicking it, you can directly right click on the video image itself and do "Track path" menu. This will create a trajectory object with the path as before.

Explanation: in the older version the individual objects like points, lines, angles, etc. were not trackable themselves so when you right clicked on the point it had a special function to create the trajectory object for you and hide the point. I intend to have an option to show the path of the points of trackable objects in the future.

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244 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in Bug reports)

Hi, yes this has been fixed for the next version.
This .xml format was an old Excel format that was simpler to create at the time, now I've rewritten the exporter using a library that emit .xlsx natively.

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245 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Hi, I'm not sure what you mean by "track pad". Like a track / trajectory? It should export similarly to other drawings. There are a few things that are not exported like the magnifier.

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246 Reply by joan

(4 replies, posted in General)

Yes the markers should be as light as possible so they don't "swim" around when the person moves. Simple stickers should work fine. (I have even seen people use body paint style markers on exposed skin).
They should be circular.

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247 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in General)

It will be possible in the next version but it's not possible in 0.9.5 and earlier.

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248 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in General)

You need to calibrate the plane of motion somehow. Check this page: https://www.kinovea.org/help/en/measure … ation.html

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249 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in General)

You did nothing wrong, it has been like this for a while, I'm looking at fixing this for the next version.

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250 Reply by joan

(3 replies, posted in General)

This tool leaves a lot to be desired in my opinion, if we could gather a bunch of suggestions it would help pack them together.

I have this in my list a the moment
- ability to change the color of the circle.
- ability to change visibility/opacity.
- a new "highlighter" tool that would work similarly to the spotlight but instead of a circle it's a free-hand pencil marker.

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251 Reply by joan

(3 replies, posted in General)

Well, this is an oversight, it doesn't support the visibility options at the moment so there is no way to do this. I'll note that down for the next version, thanks for reporting.

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252 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Français)

Oui en allant dans Préférences > Dessins > Général et décocher "Activer le filtrage des coordonnées", ça devrait le faire.

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253 Topic by joan

(1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

Right now it's not possible to export the comments added to key images. This is a pretty severe limitation that needs to be addressed.

It's the third or fourth time that I look into this. In an older version there was a function to export to PDF but this doesn't work, we want full flexibility in the output for the user to further edit the content, add their own logo and formatting, etc. So it should export to a Word or Writer document. The problem is that there is no lightweight library to export to these formats.

But this really needs fixing so I'm going to try a different approach. I will export to Markdown, a simple text-based format, and then I'll use Pandoc which is a separate open source software that can convert between Markdown and Word, Writer, PDF, etc.

The Pandoc binary itself is several times larger than Kinovea so I can't justify adding this directly into the program. I can see two approaches:

1. The user installs a Kinovea "plugin" that contains Pandoc and the code to call it.
2. The user installs Pandoc themselves separately and Kinovea figures out where it's installed and the code to call it is builtin.

Both require the user to install a separate thing so I might as well simplify things and just tap into an existing installation instead of wrapping a third party program into a plugin.

I haven't tried any of this yet but I'm pretty convinced the Markdown + converter makes the most sense at this point. I'm hoping this will allow the use of templates so we can generate nice reports directly.

Any thoughts or comment about this are more than welcomed.

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254 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

Hi, there is a shortcut that will toggle between the delayed display and live display. In Preferences > Keyboard > CaptureScreen > ToggleDelayedDisplay. It's currently bound to ALT+Home but you can remap it to something more direct if needed.

This only changes what is shown on screen, all the mechanics for recording are kept the same, so you still use the delay amount to mean how much action from *before* the trigger will end up in the final video.

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255 Reply by joan

(5 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

OK, I made some more tests and I like this banner thing.
Going to use it as a general visual feedback of the state of the capture screen.

Here is the current color scheme:
- audio trigger disarmed = blue (neutral state).
- audio trigger armed = green.
- during quiet period after recording = blue (+reverse progress bar until auto-rearm).
- recording = red. (+ reverse progress bar if stop after duration is enabled).
- camera grabbing on pause = violet.

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