MaxSea Operator Manual version 12.6 - Furuno USA

When you choose to display this window, it permanently appears in the chart window.
Choosing the Active Tidal Current Data Layer
Tides and Tidal Currents
Tidal Currents Data are produced by different publishers such as Mapmedia or NOAA US Tidal
Currents. Other type of Tidal current data can be contained in files of weather forecasts. You may
choose which Tidal Current data you will use in your navigation calculations. According to your
navigation, choose the type of the currents of tide which you wish to integrate into your calculations of
follow-up of navigation. When you wish to calculate a routing for example, the route is calculated
according to the Tidal Current Data layer you have chosen before.
To activate the Tidal Current Data Layer :
1. Click on the Tides & Current drop-down arrow in the Chart Toolbar,
2. Point to Active Current Data
3. Check which type of Current data layer you wish to activate
Next all calculations that need tides and currents data, will be added in your planning route.
Making and Opening Movies
You can make time-lapse movies of weather and tidal current stream under the software from the selected chart window.
This movie includes chart current arrows.
To make a movie file under the software, first choose the Tidal current time at which you wish the movie to begin.
Next, from the [Edit] menu, select [Create a movie] and choose the time between each image.
• Day number (00d)
• Hour number (01h)
• Minute number (00mn)
• Second number (00s)
Note: one hour is the interval of time between two sequences of animation.
IMPORTANT - Generation of many image sequences requires enough free space on the hard disk. It is strongly
advised to reduce the size of the window chart before generating movies.
1. Then, select the folder and the file name for which you want to save the movie as (easier to find later for
playing).
2. Finally, select a type of compression format and click on OK (uncompressed format is selected by default). If
you have chosen a compression format, you can adjust the quality or/and customize the video display.
The software automatically makes a movie ( in the "My documents" folder by default. This movie is defined on a period of
24 hour period, date and time are displayed in the right lower corner of the window movie.
Playing and controlling movies is easy. To play the movie, go to Windows Explorer and click on the Movie file (*.AVI).
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