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Chapter 14 - Overview of Settings Tabs


The Settings window allows you to easily configure all your compression and processing parameters. This window is where much of your work with Media Cleaner will take place.

The Settings window dynamically adjusts to only show you tabs and choices that are meaningful. This helps you avoid adjusting parameters that are not applicable to the architecture or codec that you have selected, saving you time and frustration.

Below are brief descriptions of each tab - the following chapters go into details for each tab. To understand how to save settings groups, rename them, etc., please see Chapter 9.


Output

This tab allows you to specify the architecture (format) of the final file to: QuickTime, RealMedia, VDO, AIFF, or RealAudio. It also allows you to specify format specific details, such as "fast start" for QuickTime, "Perfect Play" for RealMedia, movie information, copyright, etc. Naming suffixes are controlled with the Output tab, as well as HTML generation.


Tracks

This tab allows you to specify which tracks from your source movie are contained in your output movie. If you have QuickTime tracks such as sprites or text, this is where you specify how they are included in the final movie. This tab also allows you to include an audio or video track from the source movie without recompressing it.


Video

This tab allows you to specify the cropping, scaling, and noise reduction filters that affect your image. Changes you make in this tab are visible in the Dynamic Preview window as you change the settings.


Adjust

This tabs allows you to adjust the image's brightness, contrast, gamma, hue, saturation, black restore, and white restore. Changes you make in this tab are visible in the Dynamic Preview window.


Compress

This tab allows you to specify your video compression parameters including codecs, keyframes, quality settings, data rate controls, etc. This tab replaces the standard QuickTime dialog, and has much greater functionality. Plus, it dynamically adjusts to only show you features that are applicable to the current architecture/format and codec.


Audio

This tab allows you to specify the audio codec, frequency, bit depth and volume adjustment.


Begin/End

You may specify video and audio fades, high quality first/last frames, and frame holds with the Begin/End tab.


Summary

This tab shows a text summary of all your settings for your reference. You can click on the text to jump immediately to the tab that controls the summarized settings. Pressing the Enter key (on the numeric keypad) will always bring you to this tab.