3D Gugle
User's Guide

(Movie Utility)

INDEX

< Presentation
< List other movie LABs of 3D Gugle
< Start of Movie Utility LAB

< Functions
    < Add/Change sound
    < Recompress AVI
    < Convert movie to AVI
    < Convert AVI to movie
    < Convert PCM to MP3
    < Join AVI clips
 
< How to install and to use K-Lite Codec Pack

"Presentation"

This LAB was designed, in particular, to gather together video clips after having made the conversion to 3D.
Usually before converting a movie into 3D, it is best to divide the movie into a series of clips. The division provides a more rational work plan and avoids the use of large spaces on the hard disk.

To extract the clips from a movie use the LAB of "Frames from AVI". "Frames from AVI" has an extremely precise visual Video-Editor with Audio/Video preview.
You can use the preview in two ways. By double clicking on the program line you have a preview only for the segment determined by that line. By pressing the button "Play" you have a preview for all lines starting from the selected line to the end of the program.

Typically a clip is saved in two files: one with the video and the other with the audio.
From the video clip you extract the frames to convert into 3D and later, having completed the conversion, you re-add the audio file to reconstruct the original clip. These operations you do in the LAB  "AVI from Frames".

After completing the conversion for all the clips that belong to the original film in this LAB, you join the various clips to re-create the movie in 3D.
To join the clips the function "Join AVI clips" is used.

The function "Join AVI clips" is designed to be extremely flexible and has unique features which you can use for various non- 3D movie applications. For example it is possible to combine films with completely different layers. Suppose you want to bring together into one film a series of films that have between them different sizes, different type of compression, different speed and different audio.
With "Join AVI clips" this operation it is not only possible but is also extremely easy to perform.

The LAB "Movies Utility" can also import or export movies in different formats.
The function to import from different formats is: "Convert movie to AVI" while to export the function "Convert AVI to movie" is used.

The export formats made available allow the sharing of films with the Internet and the Apple system.
The formats are:
    "mpg" universal
    "mp4" high-quality universal
    "mov" Mac standard format 
    "flv" standard format used by Adobe Flash Player especially for the Internet

For the importation formats the most common were selected for use but it is appropriate to mention that the conversion to AVI is not always successful.
Films may derive from innumerable software programs which, while working with the same format, introduce differences are not always discoverable or manageable.

For the best possible way to solve the conversion function, "Convert AVI movie to" operates on two levels. The first level implements a conversion in accordance with international standards using an internal decompressor and then, in the second level a selected compressor for audio and video is used. To select a video compressor use the button "Compressor". If the button is not visible the selection is automatically selected by 3D Gugle.

Notes
1) To take the maximum advantage of the capabilities of this laboratory, we recommend installing the best known encoder/decoder in your computer, especially one related to the compressor MPEG4-V2 which is compatible with the AVI format.
One solution would be to install a pack type  "K-Lite Codec Pack",

The test we performed was successful but we can not guarantee this software.
For more information about the setting of "K-Lite Codec Pack" see the  footnotes.

2) This laboratory does not work correctly if you use the decoder/encoder "XviD".

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Other laboratories of 3D Gugle to work with movies:

Frame Utility         
Resize, crop, insert logo/text, insert frames

AVI from frames    
AVI Editor (Moviola) to create AVI movie from frames

Frames from AVI    
AVI Editor (Moviola) to extract frames, video/audio clips from AVI movies,

Frames converter   
Bidirectional conversion: 3D Gugle Frames <> Frames by external video editors

Capture Video/Audio
Capture Movie from web and capture activities from the screen

Animated GIF
To create or modify an Animated GIF

3D frame moviola              
AVI Editor (Moviola) to assemble the left and right frames into anaglyphs or stereo side by side

2D to 3D Movie conversion             
To convert an ordinary film to stereo pairs or anaglyph

Save/Resize Batch             
Batch resize a folder of images using none, bilinear or high-quality bicubic interpolation, convert a series of BMP images into frames which can be used in Movie LAB, save a series of frames in inverted order to allow continuous-cycling. Encrypt/Decrypt images and files, etc.

Graphic operation on the frames
Contrast, brightness, Daylight, Greyscale, Gamma, Sharpen, Add colour, Saturation or deghost to a single frame or group of frames

Security Media Player 
High-speed and quality playback of movies with 'software-only' method that does not compromise your privacy or security

Direct Layers LAB            
To extract and manage the Layers

Algorithms to Layers         
To automatically create new intermediate frames with many algorithms of transformation

Layers Assembly               
To assemble and manage the Layers to create animations and lenticular effects

Stereo Analysis                
To check the quality of the stereo images, to automatically create the intermediate frames and dinamic effects by interpolation method
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Run Movie Utility

To start the lab, from the menu "Movie", select "Movies Utility".
To select the function to perform, click on the specific selector.
See the red lines.

Currently there are six possible functions:

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"Add/Change sound"

This function changes or adds a new sound to an existing AVI movie.

The sound can be loaded from another AVI movie or from a "Wav" file.

To compress a sound file and then add it to the same movie, you must first extract the audio with " Comnvert PCM to MP3" and then you use this section to replace the uncompressed (PCM) audio.

To extract the audio in a planned and discontinuous mode you must use the menu File "Save Audio Clip (Wav)" of the LAB "Frames from AVI ".  Please note also that, with 3D Gugle you can record sound directly from the computer using the LAB of "Capture Video/Audio".

Caution
In the resulting video, the video/audio compression formats remain unchanged. In other words, the new film will have the same video compression as the original video and the same audio as the original audio. Accordingly to use this feature, you must have installed on your computer the audio/video decoder/encoder with which the original movies have been compressed.
For example, if a video is compressed with DivX, in order to change the sound you will need to have the DivX encoder / decoder installed.

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"Recompress AVI"

This function changes the video compression of an AVI, preserving the same audio.

To change the compression parameters or to use another compressor, press the "Compressor" button.

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"Convert movie to AVI"

This function converts the format of an existing movie into AVI format.
The AVI format is the only format that is compatible with all laboratories of 3D Gugle movie.
To choose the new video compressor, use the button "Compressor".



Currently you can convert into AVI the following formats:
*.mpg; *.mpeg; *.mp4; *.mov; *.asf; *.flv; *.swf; *.wmv; *.vob

The audio of the resultant AVI is always in the uncompressed format Microsoft "PCM".
To reduce the file size you can change some parameters of the audio by clicking on the drop-down menu shown below.
After the conversion, however, you can convert the audio PCM into MP3 (MPEG Layer-3) with the function "Convert PCM to MP3".

Note
If it is necessary to stop the compression process, close the system window that is active during the conversion

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"Convert AVI to movie"

In this section you can convert an AVI file into another format.



Possible formats are:
"*.mpg", "*.mp4", "*.mov", "*.flv".

To select the format of the new video, click on the drop-down menu in the save dialogue shown in the figure below.
 

For the "*.mpg" format the conversion is possible only if the original film has the speed in frames/sec greater than or equal to 20 frames/s

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"Convert PCM to MP3"

With this function you can compress an uncompressed file "*. wav" (PCM) into MPEG Layer-3 (MP3).

The conversion process generates an independent file "*.wav" so the function can be used to extract an audio file from an existing AVI movie.
To do this operation you simply load the movie from which you want to take the sound, using the button "Load PCM".
To add the extracted audio to another film or to the same film use the function "Add/Change sound".

The MP3 compression dramatically reduces the size of the audio files but, of course, the audio quality is also reduced.

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"Join AVI clips"

This function will join AVI clips into a single AVI movie.

The "Join AVI clips" is extremely powerful and has taken
months for his development.

The features of this function allows to join AVI movies with completely different layers.

The "Join AVI clips" is extremely powerful and has taken
months of development.
The features of this function allow the joining of AVI movies with completely different layers.

For instance you can create a new movie using clips that have these differences between them:
    1) dimensions
    2) video compression
    3) audio compression
    4) clips with audio clips
    5) speed (frame/sec)

When you start the procedure all the parameters are recalculated and normalized to obtain a homogeneous film with the same characteristics.

The audio of the new film, regardless of the format which is present in the various clips, will be in uncompressed PCM or MP3 when this is checked in the box. "MP3".

When you use the button "Add Clips" to load the films to join, you can load multiple files at once.
The rules of the multiple selection files are the same used in Windows.
To arrange the clips, clone or delete, use the appropriate
little buttons to the right of the list of clips.
The clips files will be added to the new movie in sequence starting from the first film at the top of the list.

To change the video compression parameters use the button "Compressor".

Selecting "Only movie" will create a video that does not contain audio.

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Using the settings "Force frame rate" and "Force frame size".

"Force frame rate" is used when the clips have different speeds or if you want to force the speed to a specified value.

To know the speed or the attributes of the loaded clips press the
button "Info".

On pressing the "Info" button a new window appears with a list of movie properties, and "Frame/s" (frames per second) indicates the projection speed.

To set the settings click on the check button "Force frame rate".
Pressing the button will make available three options:

"Default" is used when all the loaded clips have the same frame rate (Frame rate = speed projection).
If you select this option and the Clips have different frame rate the resultant audio will not sync with the video.

"Auto" is used when the loaded clips have different frame rates. On selecting "Auto" the first clip in the list will be considered as a reference and all clips’ frame rates following will use the same value as the first clip.

"Set" forces the same frame rate for all the clips.
When you select "Set" a spin becomes visible with which determine the new frame rate.

To close the Options section of the frame rate and store the new settings, press "Save" or "Annul" to not change the existing settings.

"Force frame size" is used when you want to determine the
frame size in pixels of the new video that will be created.
On pressing "Force Frame size" a window appears with two options.



On selecting "Auto" the first clip in the list will be considered as a reference and all following clips will be converted in size to the same values of the first clip.

"Set" forces all the clips to have the same size that is manually entered.
When you select "Set" two spins will become visible with which
to determine the new size in pixels.
The values manually entered by the spins represent a rectangle which will be drawn in proportion to the image of the frame.
The area larger and unused in the rectangle will result in a black colour.



To close the Options section of the frame size and save the new settings, press "Save" or "Annul" to not change the existing parameters.

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Note to install and use "K-Lite Codec Pack"

Download K-Lite Codec Pack

After installation you should restart your computer.

"K-Lite" installs a container which is very flexible and fully compatible with the AVI format and MS-Media Player.
The container is called "ffdshow Video Codec" which is abbreviated "ffds" see also  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ffdshow.

To access the settings of "K-Lite" select the function "Recompress AVI" and then press the button "Compressor".

In the window that appears which contains the list of compressors present in your computer, select "ffdshow Video Codec".

Press the "Configure" button.
On pressing "Configure", in many cases, a window with the invitation to make a donation appears. In this case close the window and try again.
The correct window (without extra messages) is the same as the one shown in the image below.

Now all that remains is to choose the compressor to be used and to determine the quality.

In our opinion, the best conditions are those that use the FFDS container with the MPEG4-v2 video compressor.

To set this compressor in the drop-down menu "Encoder" select MS-MPEG4 v2 if it exists or MPEG4-v2.

In the drop-down menu "FOURCC" select "MPG2".

To determine the quality of the video use the scroll bar "Bitrate (kbps)". For an average quality (but adequate) set the value to 5000. The higher values improve the quality but, of course, increase the size of the resultant file.

To store settings press "Apply" then "OK" and a new "OK" in the first window that displays a list of compressors.
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