Film Strip

The film strip can be turned on or off. It keeps a smaller sized copy of each frame as it is created by the morph. It can also animate this sequence of frames by showing each frame in rapid succession. The film strip controls will be familiar to users of other Windows video products; they imitate your VCR.

Help	Access the online reference help on filmstrip controls.
Play	Play the film strip as an animation.
Stop	Stop the animation.
Beginning	Rewind to the first frame.
Rewind	Rewind 8 frames.
Forward	Move forward 8 frames.
Seek to End	Move to the last frame.
Eject	Eject the film strip contents. An Eject Confirmation is asked prior to ejecting the filmstrip.
Left One Frame	Rewind just 1 frame.
Right One Frame	Forward just 1 frame.
Frame Position	Manually adjust frame position.
Animation Speed	Control animation playback speed. This does not alter the animation's actual frame rate, but instead alters the playback speed of the filmstrip. There are also readouts for the current position.
Film Frame + Film Time	The first readout shows the current position as a frame number (3 in this case) and the total number of frames in the film strip (7). The second shows the time from the start of this animation in minutes : seconds . and milliseconds.
Eject Film	A dialog will be displayed when the film strip Eject button is pressed. It allows you to confirm your action before discarding the film strip contents. If you hit OK the film strip contents will be lost unless they have been previously saved. Pressing Save will present file requester for saving film strip. Then if the film strip is saved, it will be removed from the film strip window. Pressing Cancel in the file requester will also cancel the eject Pressing Cancel will return to the program without ejecting the film strip contents.

Film strip files can be stored on disk and shared and displayed on different computers. Other controls for the film strip window are in the Filmstrip Menu Options. Animation speed depends on the film strip window size, the type of computer and the type of display adapter used. If you have an unaccelerated display device, animation cannot run very fast. Using a high speed display card, a 100 pixel by 100 pixel film strip animation should be able to run at 40 frames per second or faster. Animating film strips with frame resolutions greater than 320 x 200 require massive amounts of computer power. We therefore suggest that film strip pixel resolutions be kept reasonably small. Remember: Film strips are not meant to be the final animation; individual frames are saved from the Sequence Controls dialog for that purpose.

WinImages F/x Manual Version 7, Revision 5, Level B