DRAGRI User Manual

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Editing Procedure

Create the content using DRAGRI and publish the content in a web home page as follows:

(1)Prepare materials.

Prepare the materials to be used for the content.

Although the basic material is a video, you can also overlay it with images and add speech data to it. You can also prepare images frame by frame like a strip cartoon.
The frames can be read in place of a video.

(2)Edit with DRAGRI.

Edit the content with DRAGRI based on the prepared materials.

After editing is completed, the content is output in a format which can be viewed with an ordinary Web browser, without the need for plug-ins.

(3)Publish.

When the created content is uploaded to a Web server, it can be published via a network.

You can also attach the content to the e-mail you send to friends or record it on CD-ROM or a floppy disk for distribution.

The following describes a simple example of editing using video material.




1. Inserting a video

Prepare a video. Clicking the video insertion button()displays the dialog for selecting the type of video to be used. Select one of the following items:

  • Video file: The video file created with a digital camera can be used.
  • New capture: If a video capture card and a camera are available, a video can be captured.
  • Series of images: A series of pictures (JPEG, PNG, and GIF) can be used if your digital camera cannot take a video.



2. Drawing a drag path

Step 1: Set IN Point

(1) By dragging the double red vertical lines (the current frame marker) right and left, you can specify the starting frame to be played.

(2)Examine the movement of an object to select the starting point of the object and click the IN Point button (). In the above example, the frame where a girl starts to move her hand is specified as the IN Point.

The left-hand semicircular marker () moves on the timeline to indicate that the IN Point has been set.


Step 2: Set OUT Point

In a similar manner, operate the timeline to specify the frame where the movement of the object ends.

Click the OUT Point button ().
The right-hand semicircular marker () moves to the OUT Point on the timeline.


Step 3: Draw a drag path

Press the Polygonal Line button () and draw a polygonal line along the line of movement of the object in a video.

If the polygonal line is drawn in an opposite direction, pressinginverts the direction of the polygonal line.

If you drag your mouse near the drawn drag path, you can see the movement.




3. Outputting and publishing the content

After you have edited the content, use the [Save as Web Content] menu to save the Web page (content).

The content is broken down into HTML files for the Web pages, a Java applet program for playing, and image files. These files are all put in the destination directory that you enter in the Save configuration dialog.

Clicking [...] displays the file selection dialog. Select the directory in which the content is to be saved. To create a new directory, use the keyboard to enter "€directory-name" at the end of the pathname.

Ticking [View page after saving] and clicking the [OK] button saves the content, and then starts the browser to play the content.

The saved pages can be played using ordinary Web browsers that support Java, such as Internet Explorer and Netscape.

When the save directory is uploaded to a Web server, the content can be published on the Internet. (Be sure to upload the content in "binary mode.")

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