VideoFOCUS 4.0 Release Notes

Digital Audio Corporation 2013

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VF 4.0 Installation

This page provides you with information on downloading and installing VideoFOCUS 4.0 and provides a review of the new features.

Downloading VF 4.0

The latest version of VideoFOCUS 4.0 installer can be downloaded at the following link videofocuspro40.exe. Save the download executable to a convenient location on your computer and when the download is complete run the executable to unpack the installer and automatically start the install process.

Activating VF 4.0 with a Dongle

VideoFOCUS dongles can only store one product activation at a time. For those users with a dongle and without an Internet connection on your computer please contact Salient Stills for further information about upgrading. For those users with an Internet connection the dongle will be upgraded to a 4.0 code the first time 4.0 is run.

Activating VF 4.0 with a Software Key

Running VideoFOCUS 4.0 requires an activation update from our license server and you will be prompted for your Installation ID when VideoFOCUS 4.0 is first run. Please use the Installation ID that you have been using for your VideoFOCUS 3.1 (this can be found under the Help->About menu of 3.1). If you wish to try VideoFOCUS 4.0 on a different computer please contact us.

Running VF 3.1 and VF 4.0

If your machine has an Internet connection you should be able to install VF 4.0 alongside VF 3.1 and run either but not simultaneously (ie close 4.0 before opening 3.1). Note that you can open your existing 3.1 work as a 4.0 case but if you do you may not be able to use it in 3.1 again afterwards.

New Features in VF 4.0

Cases

VideoFOCUS 4.0 introduces the concept of cases to allow for better organization and management of separate work efforts. Each case is displayed as a tab of the main window and the contents of each tab are the familiar 'Sessions' and 'Stills' windows of previous versions of VideoFOCUS.

The following case related actions can be found under the 'File' menu.

• New Case Creates a new empty case at the chosen location. The default directory for the case dialog when it opens can be changed by changing the in the directory specified in the preferences dialog ('Edit'->'Preferences'). Existing cases are identified in the dialog by a VideoFOCUS icon and can be opened using the Open Case file menu option.
• Open Case Opens an existing case directory. Cases are identified in the open dialog by a VideoFOCUS icon. When a case is opened a tab will be added in the main window containing the case contents.
• Archive Case Creates a complete zip archive of the entire contents of the case. The zip archive contains can be un-zipped at a later date and then opened using the 'Open Case' action.
• Close Case Closes the tab associated with the case. This does not delete any of the case data. The case can be re-opened using the Open Case action.

Notes on Case Media

Video and image data may be freely copied between cases (using copy and paste). When pasting into a different project VideoFOCUS will create a copy of the media. This ensures that the data will be still be available in the destination project if the source project is deleted or relocated.

The same applies for imported media. VideoFOCUS 4.0 will create its own internal copy of imported images and video and will not require access to the source material after a successful import.

Titles in Edit

The session editor introduces new title facilities to allow for the addition and editing of titles in any movie in VideoFOCUS. (Editing can be started by a right click 'Edit' on an existing session or through the 'File'->'New Session' menu action.)

The following titling menu actions are available in player window when editing a session

• New Creates a new blank title at the current playhead position.
• Edit Edits an existing title (if a title is at the playhead position
• Delete Deletes an existing title (if a title is at the playhead position
• Go Positions the playhead to the location of existing titles within the session

The 'New' and 'Edit' actions bring up a title editor. Just as in editing with a typical text editor title text can be entered directly into the editor and will appear at the cursor location. The following elements control the title's appearance.

• Justify Controls whether the text will appear on the left,center or right
• Size Controls the size of the text
• Duration The number of seconds the title will appear in the session

To adjust existing text the text must be first selected (in the typical way for a document editor) before the 'Justify' or 'Size' values are changed.

Images

Images can now be imported into VideoFOCUS. Images are imported using the 'File'->'Import Image' action and will appear in the 'Session Stills and Frames' panel. Once imported the image is treated just like any other still and can be processed as such.

Other Features

A rotation option has been added to the modify panel ('Processing'->'Modify'). This allows for the arbitrary rotation of both images and video by a specified number of degrees.

An invert option has been added to the blur filter. ('Processing'->'Filter'->'Blur') which makes all areas other than the mask areas blurred. This can be used in conjunction with mask tracking to highlight individual objects within a moving sequence.

The WAV file type option has been added to movie export. This will be available if the session being exported (or any session in the case of a batch export) contains audio. It will produce a WAV format audio file.

The screen capture source selection dialog can now be resized to allow for more precise selection of the capture window area.

Change Log

This list will be updated with information on fixes as new versions of VideoFOCUS 4.0 are made available for download.