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Mewa User's Guide/Footage node
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About
Footage node holds a sequence of images. Images are indexed from 0 to N, N being the number of images/frames.
Footage nodes are added to the node-graph from the file browser. To open the file browser click Image:OpenButton.png.
Imported footage from the file browser appears in the node-graph as a new node.
The node has the name of the imported file.
right|thumb|Footage node
Parameters Panel
right|thumb|Footage parameters
Frame Index
The footage node holds a sequence of images, indexed from 0 to N.
By default, when a footage node is created a new curve is created mapping the image index to the frame number, as shown.
center|frame|Default frame index curve
The default frame-index curve is a diagonal curve that goes from 0 to N, N being the number of images in the footage node.
To holding a frame we repeat a given image index for several time frames.
center|frame|Frame index curve with holding frames
Trimming erases images from the footage node.
center|frame|Frame index curve trimming the first 2 frames
Metadata
Tool tip
A status bar message is displayed while hovering the mouse cursor over a footage node. This status bar message shows the footage resolution, number of frames
and the footage file name.