DepthFlow UX Helper

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Input Image

This will open a window where you can browse to the image you would like to make into an animated video.

Acceptable input file types are:
.jpg
.jpeg
.png
.tif
.tiff
.bmp
.webp
Any other file types will not show up in the pop up window.

Presets and Samples

The presets are pre-coded animations that will be applied to your image
click the 'sample' text above each one to view a sample of the animation

Choices and samples are:

Siders

With each preset animation, certain sliders and input boxes are available.
You can use the slider to change the amount,
or type in the amount desired into the box, without using the slider.
The slider position does not matter. The number in the box is what that the program uses

DURATION - Controls the duration (length) of the animation.
                  The animation will be as long or short as you want to set it.
                  The longer the duration, the slower the animation.
                  You can also use decimals. example 8 or 9.75 or 12.36

INTENSITY - Controls the intensity of the movement in the animation.
                  The higher the intensity,
                  The more movement in the animations

PHASE - Controls the shift of the wave the animation uses
             The animations use waves such as Sine, Cosine, and Triangle

STATIC - Controls the camera movement displacement depth.
             The higher this value, the more (background) movement

DEPTH - Controls the focal depth of this animation
             The higher this value, the more background movement and less foreground movement
             The lower this value, the more foreground movement and less background movement

BIAS - Controls the bias of the animation.
          If your output video has streaks between
          some of the near and far objects,
          change this setting.
          It may take a few trys to get it right for the input image

Video Size

You can choose the output size of the video.
Type in a size and choose 'width' or 'height'
We will not stretch your image.

If you choose width,
we will figure out the height by getting info from the input image.

If you choose height,
we will figure out the width by getting info from the input image.

FPS

Frames Per Second
How many frames per second you want.
You can type in any number, default is 30
but the common ones are

60 = Better (crisper, but larger file size due to twice as many frames)
30 = most common - web videos, live tv, sports, soap operas
24 = cinema - tv and film

anything below 24 can be noticably choppy.

Loop

This controls if the animation loops or not

Some types, such as Orbital, do not have this option.

With Zoom, for example, with a looped animation,
the video will zoom in and then out, to make a perfect loop.
Un-checking loop will just zoom in for the total length of the video.

Unlooped animations are half the speed of looped animations,
but the same length.

Play After Processing

If this is checked,
The output video will play automatically
when processing is finished.

When unchecked, nothing will happen when the processing window closes.

You can always click the button to play the output video
click the button to view the input image
click the button to open the folder of the input or output

Rotate

Some Images from older phones used in landscape mode,
get flipped into portrait mode during processing.

If your output video is sideways and you want to rotate it,
click the button
To open a pop up screen, where you can rotate the video clockwise or counter clockwise.

Save Custom

If you tweak a preset, and want to save where all the sliders are set
so you can use the same settings anytime
Use this button
It only save one custom setting, so clicking again will overwrite any old custom saves.

Load Custom

If you saved a custom preset, clicking this will load all the settings

Expert Mode

If you want to type in your own codes to send to DepthFlow (python)
see Expert Mode

Expert Mode

Command Line Box

Type in your code(s) in the box provided
This will send the -m DepthFlow command to python with your code(s) after.
So ... Do not include Python or -m DepthFlow in the beginning
Escape special characters with \
Input and output locations should be in " " (quotes)

example... dav2 --model small zoom --loop input -i "C:\Users\blah\blah\pic.jpg" main -o "C:\Users\foo\bar\pic_zoom.mp4" -w 800 --fps 30 --time 9.0

We (try) to find your output video from this box and play it automatically when finished processing.

All CMD window are shown (not minimized) so you can see what's going on.
If there is an error in your code, it will not be processed and the CMD will quickly close.

Rotate Output Video

When processing is finished, a rotate button will become available on the bottom right, if you need to rotate the output video.

Post Process Dolly Glitch

While we automatically fix a glitch in the 'dolly' preset that shows 2 flashes during the video (sometimes),
In expert mode, if you use the dolly preset, and end up with 2 flashes in the output video
You'll have to click the 'Post Process Dolly Glitch' button on the bottom left.
A window will pop up, where we try to fix the flashes
You can also pick the 2 frames to remove, if our auto-fix doesn't get it right.

History

The last 5 codes sent to DepthFlow are saves here
If you click the 'reload' button, that coresponding line will be re-loaded into the command line box.

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