Grass Valley Media Conversion - Manual (Page 33)

Media Conversion Software Animation Builder
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Note: Sequence files must be located in the same directory and must share
the same prefix.
As each frame is loaded it is displayed in the main window. The alpha
channel of each frame can be used to crop the frame to the minimum area
required. Areas where the alpha data is close to zero (black) are removed
from the borders of the image leaving a smaller active picture area for each
frame. This can be set from the Key Garbage level field on the Animation
Builder Preferences
screen (see Preferences in the Animation Builder Menus
section below for further details).
As well as selecting a single file from the file open window, it is possible to
select several files at once to form a sequence. Press and hold down the Shift
key or Ctrl key and then click on the appropriate files. Regardless of the
order of your selection, the images will be loaded in sequence-number order.
If a single still image file is selected (or the user selects No when asked if a
sequence of files is to be loaded), the file is loaded as a still image. The
Field/Frame loading
modes have no effect for single still images, as they are
always displayed and treated as frames. Still images can be then saved as
.OXT files for use with Imagestores.