1,531 Topic by joan

(0 replies, posted in General)

This is an experimental version : it needs your feedback to improve itself.

The installer is available here: [s]Kinovea.Setup.0.8.9.exe[/s] Kinovea.0.8.10 thread is up.

I think there is many exciting stuff in this release, the most important being :

Dual Export
When in "Two Players" view, you can export combined snapshots and combined videos (synchronized). Use the export buttons on the lower right.
Now go post them on YouTube big_smile

Capture screen
Incubating for a long time, it's time for the capture screen to make its debut.
It's far from feature complete, but this is on purpose. Your feedback will drive the additions / improvements tongue

What you should be able to do: snapshot, recording to file, drawings, (including grids and the new observational references).
What you can't do yet: delay live, browse recent frames.

Only tested with a basic DV camcorder and a half broken webcam. So please report success / failures here.
(for ideas and suggestions -> in this thread.)

Rich text in comments
Bold, Highlight color, etc. for the comments, as seen in this thread.

Icons all over the place in the menus
I feared it would be distracting, but in the end I think it's a nice improvement. Most icons are coming from the popular Silk set or were derived from them.

Fixed bugs : m207, m210.

Snapshot: the new comment box.
http://www.kinovea.org/screencaps/0.8.x/commentbox.png

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1,532 Reply by joan

(10 replies, posted in Français)

desdi wrote:

De la même manière quand on exporte sous format texte il y a un décalage des colonnes (à cause des dizaines) qui le rend un peu difficile à exploiter si on veux exporter dans un tableur moins "classique" ( Regressi par exemple... ).

Je ne suis pas trop sûr de comprendre le coup des colonnes… (?) Est-ce que cela concerne les formats numériques également ?
L'export texte est dans un format compatible sans modifications avec gnuplot, mais le but de cet export est justement de permettre l'utilisation dans d'autres logiciels…

desdi wrote:

Enfin bon c'était juste des petites remarques/suggestions je ne veux pas faire le lourd...

Pas du tout big_smile
Étant donné que je n'utilise pas moi-même toutes les fonctions constamment, il est assez difficile de savoir quand ça cloche, ou de découvrir les bugs subtils (ou pas).
Donc tout retour est constructif, dans le pire des cas la priorité de traitement n'est pas très élevée et c'est tout. Mais au moins il y a une trace.

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1,533 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Bug reports)

Hi,
The option was missing from the routine reading back the preferences file.
Opened and closed bug m210.

Thanks for the bug report.

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1,534 Reply by joan

(45 replies, posted in Ideas and feature requests)

Joop wrote:

Hi Joan,

I remember your working on a capture option within Kinovea. Maybey its possible to make it so that you can capture 2 devices at the same time (like Dartfish). Nou in Kinovea you can compare two movies. (We make movies from behind en below of the foot).

Greetings.

The Capture screen will make its debut in the next experimental version (0.8.9). It will be relatively simple feature-wise, as I'd like to have it integrated now, and then add missing features based on feedback, instead of trying to do everything in the dark.

You'll be able to have 2 capture screens at once, (or 1 capture screen and one player screen), I haven't tested simultaneous recording yet tongue

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1,535 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in General)

Joop wrote:

Hi Joan,
I remember your working on a capture option within Kinovea.

Yes, the main thread is [Capture] - How should it work ?.
I think we should follow the discussion there, I'll copy the end of the message there.

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1,536 Reply by joan

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Well yes, this has been raised in the past aswell… It has went from arrow, cross, hand, and finally the semi-transparent hand with the little cross in the middle to help targetting.
The center of the little cross is the actual pixel position of the pointer.

I guess this would mean an option in the preferences pages. I'll add it to the suggestion list. It may be added later when there are other modifications needed to the preferences pages.

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1,537 Reply by joan

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desdi wrote:

Par contre je rencontre le même regret du coup que l'utilisateur plus haut: à l'export en tableau on a le nombre d'image mais pas le temps ce qui est très regrettable quand on souhaite tracer des graphiques: par exemple l'évolution de la position ou de la vitesse en fonction du temps!

Bonjour,
On peut avoir du temps, mais quand on choisi le format « 0:00:00:000 » c'est du texte.
Quand on passe en nombre d'images, c'est également des temps finalement. L'unité correspond à l'intervalle entre les images.

Il y a également les autres formats numériques comme « centième de minute » qui peuvent permettre de faire une courbe d'évolution.

Sinon, il est également envisageable d'avoir un format qui reprendrait le total des secondes (ou le total des millisecondes). Cela devrait être assez simple à ajouter je pense.

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1,538 Reply by joan

(4 replies, posted in Bug reports)

If possible please do the following :
1. Open Kinovea, then open the logs folder by menu Help > Open log folder…
2. Get to the point where you think the crash is imminent, save the .KVA file somewhere.
3. Provoque the crash.
4. Without restarting Kinovea, go to the logs folder you opened in 1. Copy the file "log.txt" and "Unhandled Crash - XXX.txt" somewhere else.
(you may have several Unhandled crash files, the most recent should be sufficient, you can delete the others).

Attach the .Kva and all log files to the bug issue, or send them by mail (joan at kinovea dot org).
Thanks.

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1,539 Reply by joan

(1 replies, posted in Bug reports)

Hi,
Yes, issues have been reported with AVCHD files and hi-res videos.
What you may try until the performances issues are being investigated and worked on, is to restrict the working zone to as little time as possible. The goal would be to trigger the Analysis mode, where the images will be cached to RAM. This way the decoding time will be nil, which should increase performances.

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1,540 Reply by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

Well, it really bugged me, so I went ahead and added some formatting options smile

Please welcome the new comment box:

http://www.kinovea.org/screencaps/0.8.x/commentbox.png

Also, while I was at it, I tackled an old item of the todo-list : the ugly floating color picker.
The new color picker is very much inspired from the one you can find in Greenshot. Greenshot is an awesome open source screenshot application for Windows.
The new picker has more colors, and a list of recently used ones.

http://www.kinovea.org/screencaps/0.8.x/colorpicker.png

This will be up in 0.8.9, feedback welcome big_smile

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1,541 Topic by joan

(2 replies, posted in General)

While testing for the bug m208 (Crash after about 60 comments – that I can't repro right now), it occurred to me that the comment box is really really basic.

A title line + an area to input unformatted text… You can hardly make it more minimal.

Bold, italic, underline, highlight color ? These seem pretty standard on every text box around, even on web pages.

Thoughts ?

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1,542 Reply by joan

(6 replies, posted in General)

In the french section of the forum, someone seems to be using it a lot in Tennis.
I'm not sure exactly how though.

The coordinate system menu and dialog is currently only used to set the right coordinates of points when exporting to spreadsheet formats or text.

There is also a subproject to add a more convenient measuring interface.
It is described in the coordinate axis wiki page.
(Will be started when/if sufficient interest is expressed)

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1,543 Reply by joan

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Someone has expressed interest in this function by mail.
The idea is still to minimize the number of menus to simplify the interface, so before reinstating this more feedback will be needed.
(Ah, if someone wants to implement a plug-in system for these video filters it would solve the problem smile)

For those new to Kinovea or that never tried it before and can't now since the menu has disappeared, here is a snapshot:

http://www.kinovea.org/screencaps/0.8.x/edgesonly.jpg
Right: Normal video, Left: Through "Edges Only" menu.

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1,544 Reply by joan

(19 replies, posted in General)

I have just addressed this. Now the sub directories structure under "guides" will be mapped to menus and sub menus (unless a given directory doesn't have any .svg file).
I don't know if Kinovea will have several directories by default, but the possibility is there for the user as a start.

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1,545 Reply by joan

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Yes you're right, good idea smile
It will allow the user to better organize by grouping related shapes together.
Sharing several shapes will also be more convenient if you can group them under a single folder and just copy that folder.

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