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.
271 2023-06-11 10:42:46
Re: Exporting in excel gives .xml instead of .xlsx (2 replies, posted in Bug reports)
272 2023-05-25 20:47:39
Re: Exporting video with track pad (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.
273 2023-05-17 11:49:55
Re: Where do I buy Motion Capture Markers? (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.
274 2023-05-06 10:04:18
Re: Stack videos (1 replies, posted in General)
It will be possible in the next version but it's not possible in 0.9.5 and earlier.
275 2023-05-02 23:52:46
Re: How do I change Linear Graph units (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
276 2023-04-23 00:37:35
Re: Dual screen recording resolution (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.
277 2023-04-13 20:28:09
Re: Spotlight appears before video is paused (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.
278 2023-04-13 19:57:09
Re: Spotlight appears before video is paused (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.
279 2023-04-07 16:06:03
Re: Export de données ssuivi de trajectoire non filtrée (1 replies, posted in Français)
Oui en allant dans Préférences > Dessins > Général et décocher "Activer le filtrage des coordonnées", ça devrait le faire.
280 2023-04-05 14:09:00
Topic: Generating report documents from annotations and comments (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.
281 2023-03-29 09:46:32
Re: Video Delay in Live Mode (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.
282 2023-03-25 14:29:07
Re: countdown after automatic start with audio trigger (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.
283 2023-03-25 13:41:10
Re: Increase max delay time (1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)
This hasn't really changed but the delay at the right end of the slider depends on the memory settings in the preferences and the size and framerate of captured images. Presumably you are using a camera with higher resolution or higher framerate, hence less images fit in the allocated memory.
284 2023-03-25 11:59:14
Re: countdown after automatic start with audio trigger (5 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)
Looking into this right now.
First testing with a big red banner at the top to indicate that we are in fact recording. I think this needs to be super prominent because one of the use case of capture is hands free recording where you may be several meters away from the computer screen.
Now having added that, I'm wondering if this banner at the top could act as a reverse progress bar when the recording duration is pre-configured.
Do you actually need the exact countdown in seconds or just a visual indication of the time left? Ideally I would like to just have the time since recording started written inside the banner, an the banner act as a reverse progress bar in case of countdown-based stop.
285 2023-03-24 11:34:39
Re: Minimal UI Mode (1 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)
Yeah there is a lower limit that is enforced at the moment, it was based on having enough room for the drawing toolbars when using side-by-side comparison without the explorer panel.
As part of a future "presentation mode" I'm looking into ways to have keyboard interaction be sufficient for switching between tools and between the current tool and the hand tool. When this is implemented having the toolbar visible won't be such an important requirement to operate the program, it will be more reasonable to have a true chrome-less window at this point. I know you probably don't care about using tools at all for this use-case but I think there is a convergence between the two ideas so it will be more efficient to work on them at the same time. This won't go into the next release though, there is already too many things.