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H Slit
—In this mode, the Slit Start and Slit Width Sliders are active. The Slit
Start slider determines where the first transition between Foreground Video (left)
and the Background Video (right) occurs. The Slit Width determines how wide
the Background Video is shown before it transitions back to the Foreground
Video.
V Slit
—In this mode, the Slit Start and Slit Width Sliders are active. The Slit
Start slider determines where the first transition between Foreground Video (top)
and the Background Video (bottom) occurs. The Slit Width determines how
wide the Background Video becomes before it transitions back to the Foreground
Video.
Export
—click on the
Select File
button to choose a graphics file to export to each
channel’s current output frame. A file selection dialog will be displayed allowing
you to select any file the PC has access to locally or on an attached network.
Supported file types you can choose are bitmap, JPEG, TIFF, and Targa.). You
can use the “Select File” mechanism, or drag-and-drop a file onto the Control
Panel.
Using Xena With
Adobe Photoshop
Xena comes with several Adobe Photoshop plug-ins that allow you to import and export
still files from the card. There are several subdirectories in the Adobe Photoshop Plug-ins
folder; the Xena plug-ins will work if placed anywhere under the “Plug-Ins” directory. Once
placed in the plug-ins folder, you will be able to use the plug-ins in Adobe Photoshop from
the Photoshop File menu, under the Import and Export menu items.
Note:
The plug-ins also work with Adobe PhotoDeluxe.
Import Plug-in
The Import plug-in is responsible for importing stills from the Xena board into Photoshop.
The import function from photoshop is activated via the
File->Import->Xena Import
menu
selection. While the import dialog is displayed the video signal going into the Xena board
will be looped back out the output BNC. The Plug-in will import a still each time the
“
Import
” button is pressed. The “Done” button ends the dialog. The import dialog is shown
below.
Windows NT Xena Import Dialog
The photoshop import plug-in has a control called “Acquisition Mode.” This control selects
whether the entire
Frame
is imported or if
Field
1 is imported. If there is motion video on
the input then
Field
should be chosen.
Note:
If you want to control which field is imported, import the entire frame and choose
the Photoshop deinterlace function.
