Browser Feature requests
1) I miss being able to see ALL recorded videos in the Browser - regardless of date. I wish you could browse multiple or "all" dates.
2) The new Browser timeline is not very useful for a bunch of short 1-2 min. videos. I wish you could zoom in on the time scale of the timeline. My main complaint is not being able to see how long videos are in the Browser. For example, someone moved out of the frame in a motion capture video. In the old version, I could see the video was only a few second or minute long, and move to the next video in the list. With this version, I can't tell if it's a longer video, and I should keep watching to see if more motion occurs. At least add the length of the selected video to the Browser window somewhere.
3) Bug - the Browser kept "playing" a video recorded from version 3 indefinitely -- even after the video ended it kept displaying the last frame and the time counter incremented indefinitely. Perhaps this is a new feature (play a string of videos continuously), but it should stop after the last one ends.
(Running latest version 4.0.3 on an iMac recording/playing iSight camera video.)
Thanks for a great program.
2) The new Browser timeline is not very useful for a bunch of short 1-2 min. videos. I wish you could zoom in on the time scale of the timeline. My main complaint is not being able to see how long videos are in the Browser. For example, someone moved out of the frame in a motion capture video. In the old version, I could see the video was only a few second or minute long, and move to the next video in the list. With this version, I can't tell if it's a longer video, and I should keep watching to see if more motion occurs. At least add the length of the selected video to the Browser window somewhere.
3) Bug - the Browser kept "playing" a video recorded from version 3 indefinitely -- even after the video ended it kept displaying the last frame and the time counter incremented indefinitely. Perhaps this is a new feature (play a string of videos continuously), but it should stop after the last one ends.
(Running latest version 4.0.3 on an iMac recording/playing iSight camera video.)
Thanks for a great program.
Comments
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Thanks for your feedback.
Searching and preparing files for playback is a time-consuming process, which is why the Browser shows files for one day only. This is especially the case with the new browser, which prepares all the files it finds into one 24-hour long movie that plays back synchronised with other cameras. I hope with the date controls it's relatively easy to navigate through different days, because really it's impractical with the new setup to display much more than this at the same time.
You can in fact zoom in and out of the timeline. Use the options in the Browser menu, or command-minus and command-plus on the keyboard.
The length of the clip is represented by the size of the corresponding object in the timeline. If you click on the clip, the object is highlighted. Do you not think this is an adequate way to tell at a glance how long a particular clip is?
After the last clip ends, you should see that it still continues to play (until you stop it), but you should see it say "NO VIDEO" - are you not seeing this?
