General presentation of Videoporama

# General presentation
Principle of Videoporama

### Introduction

Videoporama is an application of creation of videos sequences established by

- titles, fixed or livened up.
- images or by photos, fixed or livened up.
- movie clip

These sequences are assembled in slide show by means of transitions of sequence to produce complete videos
The following options are available:

- Refocused of images and photos
- Cutting of video clips
- Note (addition of text) for images, photos, sequences and animations
- Creation of animation by zoom or Ken Burns Effect on part of images or photos
- Transitions between sequence with definition of the transition type, sequence by sequence.
- Addition of a background sound (wav, mp3 or ogg). (The sound track is automatically adapted to the duration of the assembly with a fade out on exit.)
- Generation of usable videos by most of the current videos equipments (DVD player / smartphone, multimedia box, hard drive, etc.) but also publishable on the main video sharing Web sites (YouTube, Dailymotion, etc.)
- Video format from QVGA (320x240) to Full HD (1920x1080) By way of the VGA, SVGA, XGA, PAL, NTSC, HD 720, etc. formats.
- Image geometry (aspect ratio) : 4:3 ou 16:9
- Possible formats of rendering : raw dv (dv), avi, mpg, flv (Video flash), mp4, mkv

### General description of the interface of Videoporama

The main window of Videoporama is decomposed into 3 main zones. 1 at the top and 2 below.

- At the top: the time line and the tools box which contains:
  - The caption with the name of the current project possibly preceded by one * if the project was modified.
  - The menu bar with the menu of the program
  - The toolbar which contains buttons of fast access to the functions of the menu.
  - The timeline. It is in this zone that are shown the sequences of the project.
    The timeline and toolbar allows of:
    - Configure Videoporama : The configuration dialog box
    - Manage projects : Create/Save/Load/Exit
    - Manage sequences : Add/Remove/Define order of the sequences
    - Render video : Preview and render videos
- Below on the left: the zone of display which gives an outline of the current image for the current sequence.

- Below on the right: the zone of settings allows to make the parameter setting of the project. It contains the tab bar which gives access to 3 categories of available settings:
  - Adjust the options of the project : The Montage options tab
  - Adjust the options of the sequence : The sequence tab
  - Adjust the options of the shots of a sequence : The Title & Image Tab
  - Adjust options of video clip : The Movie Tab

### See also

- Sequences
- Transitions
- Shots
- Videos
- Sound
- Text
- Exernal software used by Videoporama

Videoporama 0.8.1 - January 2011 - Available translation :