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Tutorial Two

Advanced Settings

In this tutorial, you will learn how to work with custom settings in the Advanced Settings
window. This tutorial also demonstrates how to use the Dynamic Preview window.
The file you need for this tutorial is in the Tutorials folder on the Cleaner 5 CD-ROM. This
tutorials source movie is provided courtesy of Vertical Online, www.verticalonline.com.
NOTE: For the purpose of this tutorial, we will work on a QuickTime setting. However, the
instructions provided here also generally apply to other formats such as RealSystem,Windows
Media and MPEG.

1. Starting the Tutorial

If you have already used Cleaner, the files from the most recent batch you worked on are listed in
the Batch window.

Select File > New Batch and create a new batch called Tutorial 2 Batch.
The Batch window is now empty.

Drag the Tutorial2.mov onto the Batch window to

add it to the batch list.

Double-click on the Setting entry next to the file.

If the Settings Wizard appears, press the Advanced
Settings button at the bottom of the window. Or,
choose Windows > Advanced Settings.

Double-click on the Setting column

to open the Advanced Settings window.

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2. Understanding Settings
All of the processing parameters and options
that you configure with the Advanced Settings
window (or the Settings Wizard) are together
called a setting. Cleaner saves each setting as a
separate file in the Cleaner Settings folder. You
can organize your settings within this folder and
move them between computers. You can create
new settings, as well as modify, rename and
delete existing settings.
The Advanced Settings window is organized into
two parts. The left side is the settings list that
displays all the settings available, as well as
several buttons that allow you to create new
settings, save settings, etc. Selecting a setting
from the setting list displays the details of that
setting on the right side of the Advanced Settings
window, which is organized into several setting
tabs. These tabs contain the various processing
options and parameters.

Windows

Mac OS

The setting lists under Windows and Mac OS.

Only the tabs that are appropriate to the format youve selected
in the Output tab are displayed. If a feature has a checkbox next
to it, checking this option activates that feature.
Once a feature is active, its parameters and controls appear in
the tab. To turn off a feature, simply uncheck the option.
Normally when configuring a setting, you start at the Output
tab and work your way down the tabs until you reach the
Summary tab.
For more details on the Advanced Settings window, see the
Working with Settings chapter in the Cleaner 5 User Manual.
The setting tabs display
the parameters of a setting.

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3. Modifying Settings
Open the QuickTime CD-ROM & Misc. setting
group in the list on the left side of the window and
choose the QT CD-ROM Sorenson setting.
Notice how the tabs on the right side of the window
now display the parameters for the
QT CD-ROM Sorenson setting.

The tabs on the right show the parameters

of the selected setting.

Click the Adjust tab, check the Contrast option

and adjust the slider to +30. Also, check the
Gamma option and increase it to +30.
Change the Contrast and Gamma to +30.

4. Using the Dynamic Preview

The Dynamic Preview allows you to see the results of your setting parameters as you change
them. Well use this feature to see how the contrast and gamma changes affect the file.

Choose Windows > Dynamic Preview or press Ctrl+D / "+D.

Underneath the image in the Dynamic Preview window is the A/B slider, which is similar to the
Before/After Preview slider. You can move this slider back and forth to see what any part of your
image looks like with processing and/or encoding applied to it.

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The image displayed in the Dynamic Preview is the

current frame in the Project window. To change frames,
move the controller in the Project window to the desired
point in the movie. You can generate a new preview by
pressing the Update button (Ctrl+D / "+D) to update the
preview. Make sure that the left side of the Dynamic
Preview has no boxes checked and the right side has
Process checked, but Encode unchecked.

Move the slider back and forth to see the effect of

the contrast change. Adjust the contrast higher or
lower and press the Update button to see the results.
The Dynamic Preview shows
your setting results.

To see how the encoding affects your final image, check

both the Process and Encode options on the right side.
Generate a new preview and compare the unprocessed,
unencoded original on the left side to the processed and
encoded image on the right. This gives you a good
indication of what your final video will look like
compared to the source material.
For more information on this feature, see the Choosing &
Previewing Encoding Parameters chapter in the
Cleaner 5 User Manual.

The Encode option shows how

the file will look when it is encoded.

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5. Saving and Assigning the Setting

When you finish experimenting with the contrast, close the Dynamic Preview window.

Save the modified setting by pressing the Save As button in

Specifying the setting folder...

the middle of the Advanced Settings window. Name the setting

QT CD-ROM+30 and choose the QuickTime CD-ROM & Misc
folder as the destination from the folder pop-up menu. Press
the OK button when you are finished.
This setting now appears in the setting list. For more information
on this topic, see the Working with Settings chapter in the
Cleaner 5 User Manual.

Mac OS

Windows

After you save the setting, press the Apply

button to assign the setting to Tutorial2.mov.
The setting is now listed next to the movie in the Batch
window.

The Setting column displays your

newly created setting.

6. Cropping the Movie

Cropping allows you to specify which part of the image you want to keep in your final file and is
useful for eliminating the black edges (overscan or edge blanking) of most captured video,
including the source for this tutorial. You can see the black edge on the left side if you move to a
part of the movie that has a light background.

Crop Tutorial2.mov by double-clicking on the movie in the Batch window to open the
Project window, then clicking and dragging on the image to specify the cropping rectangle.
Use the movie controller to scroll to a frame in the movie where the videos black edges are
visible. Click and drag on the image in the Project window to set a cropping rectangle.

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Corner handles appear on the cropping rectangle after

you click and drag on the Project window. Drag these
handles to resize the cropping rectangle, or move the
whole rectangle around by clicking and dragging inside
it. You can remove the rectangle by clicking outside of it.
Once youve set the cropping rectangle, Cleaner
automatically stores this information in the batch and
applies the cropping when you process the movie.
For more information on cropping, see the Preparing a
Project chapter in the Cleaner 5 User Manual.

Open the Project window, then click

and drag to crop.

7. Trimming the Movie

Cleaner makes it easy to trim off extra material from the
beginning or end of your files. To do this, set the In/Out
points. The files starting point is the In point and the
point where the file ends is the Out point.

Set the In point by using the movie controller in the

Project window to find the frame where you want to
begin processing and choose Edit > Set In Point
(Ctrl+[ (left bracket) / "+[).

Set the Out point by selecting Edit > Set Out Point
(Ctrl+] (right bracket) / "+])
For more details on In/Out points, see the Preparing a
Project chapter in the Cleaner 5 User Manual.

You can set the In/Out points

using the choices in the Edit menu
or with key commands.

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8. Starting and Pausing Processing

Press the Start button to begin processing the
movie. Choose the Tutorial Results folder you
created in Tutorial 1 as the destination for your file
when you are prompted.

After waiting for about half of the movie to

Press the Start button to process

your files.

encode, press the Pause button.

The Status of the movie changes from Encoding to
Paused. Pausing Cleaner essentially freezes it and lets
you do other tasks, such as check email, and then
resume encoding. The ability to resume encoding is
important if you need to encode a long movie but
cannot afford to have your computer completely
occupied for long periods of time.

The Pause button temporarily pauses

encoding so you can do other tasks,
such as check email.

NOTE: If you quit Cleaner or shut down your machine when Cleaner is paused, your encoding
will be lost and you will have to begin encoding from the beginning of the file.
Stopping Processing
Unlike the Pause button, using the Stop button returns you to the Batch window, allowing you to
modify settings or add new files to the batch, but it wont let you resume the encoding of the file.
If you press the Start button to resume encoding, Cleaner processes the file from the beginning.

9. Resuming Encoding
Press the Start button to continue encoding.
Notice how Cleaner resumes close to the point where
you originally paused, instead of starting over at the
beginning.
In order to prevent extra keyframes from being added at Press the Start button again to resume
the points at which you paused in the movie, Cleaner
encoding where you left off.
restarts encoding from the last keyframe encoded, not
the last delta frame. This may cause your encoding to resume a little before the point in the movie
where you suspended encoding.

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NOTE: If you are using an infrequent keyframe rate, such as is commonly used with Sorenson
Video, Cleaner may have to back up through a substantial portion of the movie to find the last
keyframe prior to resuming or even restart at the beginning of the file.
Allow Cleaner to finish processing the movie. Cleaner will chime when it is finished.
For more information on resuming encoding, see the Working with Batches chapter in the
Cleaner 5 User Manual.

10. Playing the Final Movie

Once the encoding is complete, the Before/After slider in
the Output window is replaced by the normal movie
controls.

Use the movie controls in the Output window to

play your encoded movie.