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NOTE: Media Cleaner can open
QuickTime movies and AIFF files. It cannot currently
open VDOLive or RealMedia movies - these two formats are currently for output only. If
you wish to view a RealMedia or VDOLive file, we recommend you use the appropriate
player application, both of which are included on
the Media Cleaner 2.0 CD-ROM in the
"Multimedia Technologies" Folder. For VDOLive and
LiteVDO (Windows only), you must put your files on
a VDO server in order for the player to properly access them.
Clicking on the "More Info" toggle will
display more detailed information about the video
and audio characteristics of the source movie, such
as codec, data rate, sample rate of the audio, etc.
Clicking on the "More Info" toggle a second
time will close the extra information.
You can also double the display size of your source movie by pressing "Command - 2" or choosing the "Double Size" option in the Windows menu. This is often helpful for accurate cropping, or to see what your movie will look like if played at double size.
To display your movie at its normal size, press "Command - 1" or choose the "Normal Size" option in the Windows menu.
NOTE: The display size of the image has
no impact on the final size of your movie. For example, displaying a movie doubled by
pressing "Command - 2" will not make the final
output movie twice as large. To alter the size of the output movie, use the "Scale" option in the Video
tab.
You may turn off the display of the movie by clicking on the toggle next to the video. This will "close up" the video window, so that the image is no longer displayed. This feature is useful for small screens.
Minimizing the Preview will slightly improve
the processing time, and is often used with batch
processing.
If you push the slider all the way to the left, you will be seeing your final compressed movie; all the way to the right and you're looking at your source movie with the filters and adjustments applied.
The Before/After preview lets you see exactly what the selected codec and your compression/processing parameters are doing to the image quality of your movie in real-time, which is often quite helpful. Being able to compare the source to the final movie "on top" of each other is much easier than trying to look at two movies side by side.
It may take Media Cleaner a little while to respond when you first move the mouse, since it must finish compressing the current frame before giving you control. While you are moving the Before/After slider, Media Cleaner will temporarily pause compression. When you stop moving the mouse for a few seconds, it will start compressing again.
NOTE: The Before/After slider is only
available while you are actually compressing your movie.
Once you suspend or finish a compression, you will not be able to use the Before/After slider.