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.