The Title & Image Tab

# Videoporama interface
The Title & Image Tab

### The Title & Image tab

The tab "Title & image" is use to define the sequence plan :
The Zoom and travel tab is made by 3 parts :

- The upper part is use to manage the image of the sequence.
- The midle part is use to manage shots of the sequence and is made by 2 sub-parts :

- The left part is use to manage the list of plan. The selected plan is showed with a blue bord around.

- The right part is use to define the specific options applied to the selected plan.

- The bottom part display informations about image of the sequence.

#### The part of managing image of the sequence

| Allow to rotate image of a quarter to the left.
| Allow to rotate image of a quarter to the right.
| Allow to open image in an external image editor (depend on image editor you have define in configuration dialog box).
... | Allow to open Open image file dialog box to replace current image by one other.
| Allow to refresh image (reload from disk). It's useful if you make modification using an external image editor.

#### The part of managing list of plans

The plans works in two parts, first a mobile part (from previous plan to current plan, fixe part) and then the fixe part (For the first plan of the sequence, the mobile part is always set to 0 second).
The plans are display vertically from top to bottom. Each plan (with the mobile and fixe part) is shown by a picture of the fixe part.
The managing of plans is realised by the two icons of the small tool bar located just over the plan list :
To add a new plan in the sequence.
To remove the selected plan in the list.
The plan order can be change by using the arrow :
To move up the selected plan of one position.
To move down the selected plan of one position..

#### The configuration part of selected plan

The configuration part of selected plan is composed by to sub-part :

- The cropping part
- The animation part

##### The Cropping part

The cropping of plan is use to select a sub part of full image to define it as plan.
The cropping is defined by 3 properties :

- The zoom level : Is the zoom factor in percent to apply
- The X position : Define the start position from the left board of source image to use
- The Y position : Define the start position from the top board of source image to use

It's possible to define those three value directly or by using the button. In this case, The zoom & crop dialog box appear.

Notice : The zoom, X position and Y position can be shown in percent or in pixel. This is define in the Configuration box

##### The Animation part

Animation settings :

- Moving time till next fixe plan : Duration of the animation in second
- Display Time of fixe plan : Duration of the static part in second

This button is use to create texts which will be displayed only during the fixe plan. A click on this button open the Texts definition dialog box

#### The part display informations about image

The information on the image are read from the EXIF metadata of the photo. That is why, if it's about an image produced with an image editor, it is likely that no information is shown.
Informations display are :

Original date/time | The date and time where the photo was taken. This information is valid only if date and time parameters was correcty set on the camera.
Description | The description field of the image as it was define by Windows exploreur of EXIF editors on Linux.
Camera | Mark and model of the camera.
Artist / Copyright | Fusion of both fields Artist and Copyright. According to cameras, often the only one of both fields is informed.
Image size | The image size in pixel.
ISO Speed | The ISO value used by the camera during the recording.
Focal aperture | The opening of focal value of the objective used by the camera during the recording.
Exposure time | The duration of opening of focal of the objective used by the camera during the recording.

### Using Shots in Videoporama

- Title and Images sequences are managed with the timeline bar
- The zoom & crop dialog box

### See also

- Sequences in Videoporama
- Shots in Videoporama
- Sound in Videoporama

Videoporama 0.8.1 - January 2011 - Available translation :