Introduction
The dialog box Application settings
allow to define options of the application : This dialog box is
called with the
button of the toolbar.
It consists of following 4 tabs:
Application options
Application options
Remember
Windows size and positions |
- If this box is checked, the sizes and the positions
of all the windows and dialogue box of ffDiaporama
will be saved to be reused the next time which you
will use ffDiaporama.
|
Remember
last used folders |
- If this box is checked, the directories that you use
for the images, the videos, the projects, the musics
and the generations of movie will be saved to be
reused the next time which you will use ffDiaporama.
|
Preview options
Frame
rate
|
- Defined the number of images by seconds which will
be generated to show the preview.
Note: the more this number is raised and the more the
preview will be fluid, on the other hand, the more the
resources of the computer will be sought.
Reduce this number on slow computer or if the capacity of
the multimedia reader is frequently in the red.
|
Image
transformation (Apply to video during preview) |
- If this box is checked, The effects of
transformations will be applied to the images of
videos during the preview.
Note: certain effects are particularly long to calculate
and can return the particularly slow preview. To shoot
this box allows then to keep a fluid preview. |
Editor options
Coordinates unit
|
This option allows to
select the unit of the coordinates which will be used in
properties dialog box among:
- Percentage: Coordinates (X, Y, Width and Height) are
expressed in percentage
- Pixel: Coordinates (X, Y, Width and Height) are
expressed in pixel with regard to a screen in 1080p
mode
|
Object
position
|
This option allows to
adjust the position which occupy the new objects in the
timeline during the insertions.
- If this option is placed to Insert
after the current selected object, then the
new slides will be created after the current slide.
- If this option is placed to Append
to the end of the project, then the new
slides will be created at the end by the project.
|
Multiple
file insertion
|
This option allows to
adjust the way will be sorted out files when you select
several files in Add
file.
- If this box is checked, files will be sorted out by
the ending number :
Example: if you select IMG_0025, IMG_0032, MVI_0029 et
MVI_0040,
files will be inserted as follows : IMG_0025,
MVI_0029, IMG_0032 et MVI_0040
- If this box is unchecked, files are sorted out in
order alphabetical.
|
Object
deletion
|
If this box is checked, a
confirmation will display every time you remove an object:
- A slide from the main window
- A shot or bloc from the slide properties dialog box
|
Default
framing
|
Defined the framing to be
made during the file insertion:
Files will be reframed so that the totality of the
width of the image is shown
Files will be reframed so that the totality of the
height of the image is shown
Files will be reframed at best
|
Default
transition
|
Defined the transition to
be inserted between slides during the insertions :
Chosen randomly a transition in the library
No transition
Crossfade transition
|
Project options

|
New
project geometry
|
Select the geometry of
image to be used for the creation of the projects.
Three kind of geometry are available :
- 4/3 : Corresponds to the old TV with (almost )
ensconced screen
- 16/9 : Corresponds to the modern TV with rectangular
screen
- 2.35/1 : Corresponds to the Cinema format (on a TV,
this format will use black strips at the top and
below.)
Note: the geometry of a project is once defined for quite
during its creation. It is not possible any more to modify
it afterward.
|
Default
1st shot duration
|
Defined the default
duration of the first shot of slides during their
creation.
|
Next shot
duration
|
Defined the default
duration of next shots.
|
Speed
wave
|
Defined the curve of speed
to be used for the transitions and the animations:
- Linear : The speed of the transitions and the
animations is linear: the speed is constant.
- Sin quarter : The speed of the transitions and the
animations follows the first quarter of the curve of a
sine: concretely, transitions and animations start
slowly, then accelerate then end slowly.
|
Rendering options
Default device mode rendering
options
Smartphone
|
Select the type and the
model of equipment which will be proposed by default when
you will click the "Player and Smartphone" button
of the "Render movie" menu
|
Multimedia
system
|
Select
the type and the model of equipment which will be
proposed by default when you will click the "Multimedia
system" button
of
the "Render movie" menu |
For the
WEB
|
Select
the type and the model of equipment which will be
proposed by default when you will click the "For the
WEB" button
of
the "Render movie" menu |
Default advanced rendering options
File
format
|
Select the default file
type to use for the rendering among the proposed list.
|
Video
standard
|
Select the default video
standard to use, PAL or NTSC.
|
Format
|
Select the default image
format to use for the rendering among the proposed list. |
Video
codec
|
Select the default video
codec to use for the rendering among the proposed list. |
Bit rate
|
Select the default bit rate
to use for video during the rendering among the proposed
list. |
Audio
codec
|
Select the default audio
codec to use for the rendering among the proposed list. |
Bit rate
|
Select the default bit rate
to use for audio during the rendering among the proposed
list. |
Manage Device Database
This tab allows to modify the of the equipment profiles
database. The database is composed in reality by two bases:
- The default database (the one who is supplied with
ffDiaporama). This equipments are register in the global
ffDiaporama configuration file.
- The equipments which you modify or add. This equipments
are register in your personal configuration file.
The device type zone allows to select the type of equipment to
be shown in the list.
The list shows the categories and the type of equipments present
in the database.
Equipments preceded by
this icon are defined in the default database.
Equipments
preceded by this icon are the ones that you defined you or
those of the default database you modified.
The following buttons allow to act on the database:

Add device: Allows to
create a new equipment which comes to be added in the
database.
The creation of a new
equipment is made in 3 step:
1- You have to create at first an equipment
2- You define the various parameters
3- You click "Apply modifications" button to register the
parameters

Remove device:
Allows to delete an equipment.
Note that you can delete only
equipments which you created. Those shown with the

icon

Reset to default:
Allows to cancel the modifications that you made on an
equipment defined in the default ffDiaporama database
Device subtype: Allows to select the category in which is
classified the equipment
Device model : Enter here the name of the equipment (free text
field)
Then: all the parameters of rendering video associated to the
device profile (File format, video Standard, etc.)
See also
ffDiaporama 1.0 - July 2011