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IPi Recorder User's Guide
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Common
iPi Recorder serves three main activities: video recording, video playback, and video conversion. To switch between these activities, three big labels at the top are used. Label of current activity is displayed in larger font size, and is underlined.
Menu tools at the top-right contains several auxiliary functions.
On-Screen Controls
Everewhere in the program when you see some screen displaying image from camera, whether in Recorder or Player, placing the mouse pointer over that screen brings it's on-screen controls. These controls provide basic functions for changing the display mode for this screen:
- Mirror image (flip horizontal)
- This may be especially useful for front-facing cameras during recording.
- For depth + RGB videos you can set the layout of two images
- Enter full screen mode
- In full screen mode, only 1 camera screen is displayed at once. You can switch between cameras using corresponding buttons or PageUp/PageDown keys. To exit full screen mode, pull off the full screen switch or press Esc key.
On-screen controls window can embed additional controls specific for the situation where screen is displayed.
Recorder
Recording process is organized in several sequential stages.
Cameras
This is initial stage of recording. You are presented with the list of cameras/depth sensors available on your system and supported by iPi Recorder.
Select (by clicking) the cameras you wish to use and press the SETUP button to continue. Selected cameras are highlighted with orange background. Program remembers your selection: next time you start iPi Recorder you don't have to bother with selection again, unless you've replugged cameras.
To refresh the camera list — for example, when you've just attached new camera — press the REFRESH button. The list refreshes automatically each time you're entering this stage. When new camera is detected, it is selected automatically.
In expander camera types support to the right you can find information how to enable support for different devices similar to that presented in the installation instructions.
Setup
Setup stage allows to adjust general and individual camera settings before recording. You can:
- Select working video mode
- Adjust number of cameras displayed in a row to optimize screen space usage
- Reorder cameras.
- To place camera to the specific position, drag it's screen to this position. You can also throw away unneeded camera if it was selected by mistake, simply by dragging away it's screen.
- Tip. For color cameras, it is recommended to place cameras in Recorder in the same order they go around capture area — either clockwise, or counter-clockwise. This will make calibration process in Studio much simpler.
- Set global properties for all cameras, if there are any.
- Example of such property is darkening for calibration for PS Eyes.
- Set properties of individual cameras.
- Examples of such properties include brightness and contrast for color cameras, and elevation angle for Kinects.
- To access individual camera properties, press the PROPERTIES button in the camera's on-screen controls.
