CinePlex v3 Manual - Plexon Inc

then load a neural data file that contains neural firing timestamps. However, other
modes of operation may be used:
• When using the New Project Wizard, leave either the video-file filename or
the neural-data filename blank, but not both. In effect, this allows CinePlex
Editor to be used to annotate video data without the presence of neural data,
and vice versa.
• If the video data file is blank, the CinePlex Editor Activity window may still
be used. If the neural data file contains VideoTracker coordinates that are
based the Plexon VideoTracker protocol, CinePlex Editor still interprets them
as Coordinates marker occurrences and displays them against a blank background
in the video window. However, it requires an extra step in this case to
generate Frame markers artificially. The New Project Wizard detects when
this needs to be done, and it automatically prompts.
• If the neural data filename is blank, CinePlex Editor still functions; the video
can be viewed in the normal way: advance frame by frame, animate, etc.
Note:
In both of the previous cases, new markers can still be entered and defined. It
is still possible to export the markers to any of the supported output-file formats.
• CinePlex Editor supports the use of AVI files recorded without the CinePlex
Studio system, which therefore does not contain embedded timestamps. To
use these files, Frame markers must be generated before using CinePlex Editor.
• CinePlex Editor can also read certain other AVI files, but those AVI files must
use the Motion JPEG method for encoding and storing the video frames.
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