Grass Valley Media Conversion - Manual (Page 56)

Animation Builder Media Conversion Software
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Mark Thumbnail
The thumbnail frame is used by Miranda Technologies Ltd. Media
Distribution System and Imagestore’s Polyphoto display to produce a
thumbnail image representing the animation. The frame may be selected
either from the Animation Options window opened from the Edit menu, or
from the Markers menu. To select a frame from the Markers menu, use the
animation viewer controls to step through the animation frames until the
desired frame is displayed. Select Mark Thumbnail from Markers menu.
The currently displayed frame will be set as the thumbnail frame. After
Animation Builder loads an animation, it automatically positions the
animation to the chosen frame.
Help menu
About
Select About from the Help menu to display details about the software
version of Animation Builder. This box also contains a link to Miranda
Technologies Ltd. web site at
www.miranda.com
Command Line Options
Animation Builder provides some command line options that can be used to
create automated batch files that do not require user intervention. In order to
use these options, you must either open the command prompt within the
MCS tools directory or add the directory to your “PATH” environment
variable. The default installation directory is “C:\Program Files\Miranda
MCS”. The executable is called “anim_tester” and the following options are
currently supported:
For compatibility reasons, the first argument is not expected to provide an
option code, but is expected to be the file path of either an animation, an
EasyText template, a clock or the root of an image sequence. The root is the
path of the sequence that excludes the numbered part and extension (eg pass