Evening everyone.
hi
jorel..
thanks for the mention (and looking after me, in your own way)
thanks
Kwag.. for the mentioning of picSwitch. Somehow, I
thought that this page was enough, oh well. Thanks again.
I wanted to note a few things about it (if I may) ..to give you a
better idea what picSwitch is all about.
----- ---- --- -- - - purpose..
Those of you who D/L it and run it, may not actually notice much
going on. And, as such, would probably not benefit the apps'
actual capabilities. It's mainly geared for those who are debugging
their "filters" or tweaking their quality to the best they can.
What my app does is give you (the user) a different view not normally
seen the old triditional way, of displaying two pics, side by side,
and "bouncing" your eyes either up/down or left/right. Another more
advanced (though still combersome) a way, was to open two images in a
browser (my old way) and alt_crsr right/left to switch between images.
The problem w/ this method was that, a) the image flickered, and b)
this approach was costly (CPU and Memory) and just not appropriate.
In short, picSwitch does this easier, and w/ very little resources,
and not to mention, cleaner and No Flickering. In fact, it does this
so much better, that when you load in two (or more) images, and begin
to Switch between them, you almost don't notice anything different about
the images or pics. You actually have to look closely at the pics as
it alternate. That's why I have the "filename" display, so that you
at least, know something is going on.
As you will noticed, at the top of this page (page 1) you'll see that
there is an actual picSwitch (w/ two pics) in a *.gif format, displaying
but if you look closely, the images are different. In order to distort
(intentionally) one of the images, I used a filter from vdub to dirty up
one of the pics, so that you could see what was happening, and so that
you could get a better idea what picSwitch is all about.
Of course, the image above also serves as a teaser, to wet peoples
appetite to inquire about it.
Again, picSwitch is a tool for tweaking your "filtering". I am working
on an even better method for bringing in images to work with (test with)
so I hope you are willing to wait till I can furmutate it.
The goal is to utilize your "filter" technique(s) for any given movie
encode (prefereably a DVD rip) to gauge your "filter" level or values,
and the one (pic) that is smoothest or shows least amount of artifacts,
will be the one you will use via your "filter" values. Again, its a tool.
Every "filter" is different, and each value in a "filter" will determine
the final encode quality.
You use picSwitch prior to encoding. That is, during your script creation
or vdub filter manipulation. Take a snapshot of the particular filter
setting(s) of before and after, and open them up in picSwitch, and run
them through the Sequencer. You can alter the speed of Sequencer as well,
to suite your tast. Sometimes, I like a value of 5; other times, I like
it at 10; real slow, so that I can pay a little more attention to the detail
and STUDY how and why the image (pic) is coming out the way it is, via any
filter tweaking; and sometimes I like it at it's fastest, which is 1,
so that I can see real quickly, if the images are the same or not.
I guess you could say that picSwitch is actually a "filter" tweaker.
At the moment, though you may actually like picSwitch, sooner or later,
there may become a need to make it more user friendly, and more flexible
to use. I'm working on some ideas that came to mind a few days ago.
Please bare with me on this quest. And, as always, feel free to lend
a suggestion or too. This help to fuel me, and continue to go further
w/ picSwitch.
Well, all I can say is.. today, you may not feel a need for this app, but
sooner or later, you'll come to that bridge, and will become curious about
some of your encodes and/or "filter" tweakings.. and will want to know a
little bit more of what's going on in your filtering. picSwitch will be
there when you become ready. It's an advanced filter-tweaking-tool,
indirectly speaking he he..
Thank you for your inquiry of picSwitch.
-vhelp