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- Instructions to Create a Morphing-Sequence
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- Prerequisites:
- - Installed Version of QuickSilver ReTouch 2.00.
- - Installed Runtime Version of Video for Windows
- (VfW) to view the created AVI-file.
- (Obtainable through CompuServe "Go CIS:MSL" or
- through InterNet "microsoft.com")
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- 1) Start ReTouch and open the image files 'bmwl.jpg'
- and 'bmwt.jpg' (via dialog |File|Open|).
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- 2) Make sure that the Morphing module is visible
- (checkmark in the menu entry |View|Morphing|).
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- 3) With the checkboxes 'Source Image' and 'Destination
- Image' you first select 'bmwl.jpg' with the mouse
- as Source and then 'bmwt.jpg' as Destination of the
- Morphing sequence.
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- 4) Now with the Load button of the Control Points group
- (right near 'Insert') you load the list of control
- points 'bmw.con'. Control points consist as pairs of
- point coordinates, which are projected from Source
- to Destination image and hereby cause the contortion
- of Morphing and Warping.
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- 5) In the edit box 'Frames', you can set the number of
- intermediate pictures (e.g. 7). Supplementary in the
- 'Morph Settings' (the button right near 'Frames'),
- the checkboxes 'Apply Interpolation' and 'Apply Image
- Filter' should be marked. Although this setting
- significantly increases computation time, it visibly
- enhances the morphing result.
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- 6) In the ToolBox Window, select the image filter 'Enhance
- Detail'. You can also select this type in the dialog
- |Image|Filter| (You can abort the filter process or
- erase the filtered image, it depends only on the active
- filter.
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- 7) To record the Morphing process, you mark the checkbox
- 'Rec' and choose an AVI file name in the appertaining
- dialog.
- - Now you can start the Morph sequence with a click on
- the 'Morph' checkbox -
- The calculation can take some time depending on the
- computer equipment; in order to work further, the
- calculation runs therefore in a window in the background.
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- 8) After completion of the first sequence, you can now reverse
- the time direction by choosing the image 'bmwt.jpg' as
- Source Image and start the calculation again.
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- 9) To view the completed video clip, the still open recording
- file must be closed (with a second click on the 'Rec' field)!
- - Thereafter you can run the Media Player and select
- |Device|Video for Windows| in order to start the
- 'bmw.avi' clip.
- (If you mark the radio button 'Auto Repeat' in the
- |Edit|Options|, you can view [Play] a cyclical video).
- - You can also playback the clip directly in ReTouch
- (in dialog |File|Open| or with Drag&Drop from the
- file manager).
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