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Changing the import settings</A 0078 ></H1 0079 ><P 0080 > If the video importing doesn't work or if you want other settings you 0081 can change the way video is imported in Stopmotion. 0082 </P 0083 ><P 0084 > This is done through the configure menu 0085 (<SPAN 0086 CLASS="guimenu" 0087 ><SPAN 0088 CLASS="accel" 0089 >S</SPAN 0090 >ettings</SPAN 0091 >-><SPAN 0092 CLASS="guimenuitem" 0093 ><SPAN 0094 CLASS="accel" 0095 >C</SPAN 0096 >onfigure Stopmotion</SPAN 0097 > (<B 0098 CLASS="shortcut" 0099 ><B 0100 CLASS="keycap" 0101 >Ctrl</B 0102 >-<B 0103 CLASS="keycap" 0104 >P</B 0105 ></B 0106 >)) 0107 and you can either choose from one of the predefined settings 0108 or create your own. 0109 <DIV 0110 CLASS="figure" 0111 ><A 0112 NAME="AEN190" 0113 ></A 0114 ><P 0115 ><B 0116 >Figure 8. 0117 The Video Import config menu 0118 </B 0119 ></P 0120 ><P 0121 ><IMG 0122 SRC="screenshots/config_menu_import.png"></P 0123 ></DIV 0124 > 0125 </P 0126 ><P 0127 > Image importing in Stopmotion works by continuously asking an external program 0128 to grab a picture from the camera and place it in the .stopmotion directory. 0129 Stopmotion then displays this picture, and when this is done continuously you 0130 get live video. 0131 </P 0132 ><P 0133 > If you want to add a new import program you can do this by pressing the 0134 <SPAN 0135 CLASS="guimenu" 0136 ><SPAN 0137 CLASS="accel" 0138 >A</SPAN 0139 >dd</SPAN 0140 > 0141 button. A new row appears in the table and you can fill in a name for your 0142 setting and a short description. 0143 </P 0144 ><P 0145 > You then have to specify the command line options to import pictures. These 0146 can be set by selecting your setting and pressing the 0147 <SPAN 0148 CLASS="guimenu" 0149 ><SPAN 0150 CLASS="accel" 0151 >E</SPAN 0152 >dit</SPAN 0153 > 0154 button. 0155 </P 0156 ><P 0157 > There are three things which can be specified here. The prepoll, start daemon 0158 and stop daemon fields. If the program for importing the images grabs one image 0159 and then exits you can leave the start and stop daemon fields blank. The contents 0160 of the prepoll field is a command which is run before importing a picture. If the 0161 import program is running in the foreground this will typically be the command line 0162 for grabbing the picture. Note that you have to write (DEFAULTPATH) in the command 0163 line on the place you otherwise would have specified the path to the file where 0164 the image should be stord. Stopmotion will replace this tag with the correct path 0165 and file name. 0166 </P 0167 ><P 0168 > If the program you use for importing the pictures is running as a background/daemon 0169 process you have to specify command lines for starting and stopping the daemon. 0170 Again you should use the $importpath tag instead of the path to the file (se above). 0171 Prepoll could still be used but is not required. One potential use for the prepoll 0172 command when the grab program is running as a daemon process is to specify a command 0173 line which performs a operation such as scaling or rotating the picture. 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