Isadora Manual v1.3 - TroikaTronix

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Integer Counter This actor was renamed to “Counter” in v1.3. Please refer to the documentation for that actor. Interlacer Interlaces two video images by alternating copying rows from the two incoming video streams. Example input and output, with height and spacing parameters set to 5% Isadora Manual video 1 output video 2 290
Example output, with no input connected to video 2, height set to 1.1 and spacing set to 0.8 Isadora Manual output Input Properties • video 1: A video stream to be interlaced with the stream arriving at the 'video 2' input. If no vide stream is linked to 'video 2', this stream will be interlaced with black. • video 2: A video stream to be interlaced with the stream arriving at the 'video 1' input.. If this input is left disconnected, black is used for the background. • height: The height of each row copied from the 'video 1' input, expressed as a percentage of the stream's height. • spacing: The space between each row copied from the 'video 1' input, expressed as a percentage of the stream's height. This space is filled with the image appearing at the 'video 2' input, or black if no input is specified. • bypass: When turned off, this effect functions normally. When turned on, the effect is disabled and the video input is passed directly to the video output. Output Properties • output: The interlaced video output stream. 291
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ISADORA ® Isadora Manual User’s
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Initializing Property Values.......
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Compositing with the Projector (v1.
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3D Stage Orientation (v1.1)........
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Envelope Generator ................
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Min Value Hold ....................
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Send Control ......................
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Threshold (v1.1) ..................
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Isadora - Overview What is Isadora?
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have a complicated video patch and
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Follow these steps to register your
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Click “OK” to continue. • Cho
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Fire Wire output, or a analog video
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• Under the heading Stage 2, Stag
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• Choose Scenes > Insert Scene. A
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• Click on the module named “Mo
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Tutorial 2: Changing Actor Settings
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Isadora Manual movie back and forth
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Isadora Manual properties. Move the
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capture device is securely attached
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• Difference - Compares the brigh
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hear a short loop of the sound. In
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Player actors - both are set to 1.
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• Click to the right of the only
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You can easily find out the type of
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to a specific value when its Scene
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Now you see a silhouette of the dan
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ecause it does not yet have any inp
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In this case, we don’t need to ch
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Creating a New Instance Sometimes y
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• Choose Windows > Show Media to
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Experiment with these three setting
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The standard drives included with m
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DV NTSC or DV PAL For standard DV r
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6) Set the slider under “Quality
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TIFF (.tif) Graphics Interchange Fo
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To select an multiple bins • Clic
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To force standard-quality playback
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• Choose Scenes > Insert Scene. A
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outside world is changing the way i
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• Click on the main body of the a
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To segment Links for better visual
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To get help for an actor’s proper
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Ctl Link, Init, Scale Min. and Scal
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actors - if this is the case, you c
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• To adjust the color input of an
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When you close a User Actor editor
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To edit a User Actor: • To open a
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• Click on an input or an output
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Choosing a Folder to Hold Your Glob
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If you take more Snapshots after th
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Using Control Panels Overview Isado
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Isadora Manual Select Scene Four an
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To Edit Control Panels: • Choose
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• Ensure that Controls > Show Act
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IMPORTANT NOTE: If you choose the T
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Setting the font, font style and fo
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• Control-click (MacOS) or right-
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• Type the password for this file
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Isadora Preferences Isadora’s Pre
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Thumbnails You can choose whether o
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• Faster - Double Buffer: This is
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First, if the display associated wi
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MIDI/Net Preferences MIDI Scene Con
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Warnings To help new users avoid co
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the Preferences. If the patch is co
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Cue Sheets Isadora has an integrate
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Using the Cue Sheet Once the cue sh
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Video & Audio Output Compositing wi
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• Click on the dot to the left of
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about FreeFrame plug-ins, see page
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• Set the rendering speed by ente
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Recording Isadoraʼs Output To reco
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• TIP: If you can’t find all of
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• If your computer has multiple v
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To use this feature, you must have
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Using Multi-Channel Sound with Movi
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With this setup, sound files played
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6) You can then use the popup menu
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of the sound in three dimensions -
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Live Video & Audio Input To bring l
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• Enable/Disable the Force 4:3 As
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Controlling Video Capture Performan
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Forcing a 4:3 Aspect Ratio There is
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Deleting Captured Media If you have
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Associating a Physical Input Port t
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3) Choose Communications > Midi Set
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Adding Custom Open Sound Control (O
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1) Check or uncheck the Enable chec
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• In the list in the middle of th
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3) Click the Sort List button to or
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Preparing a Port for Serial Communi
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until the some delimiter character
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[ character_set ] [[ character_set
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Data Input Elements: byte_set A byt
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linteger Isadora Manual integer. An
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Isadora Manual “hello” 0D 0A wo
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Actors Reference 2D Velocity (v1.1)
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• x/y/z rotation: Specifies the r
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3D Mosaic (v1.3) Creates a 3D Mosai
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• v mag pos 1/2/3/4: The vertical
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Creates a 3D Particle System. The i
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• mid size: Defines the middle si
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3D Player Renders a 3D object onto
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• x/y/z scale: Scales the object
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• visible: When turned on, the vi
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3D Quad Distort (v1.1) Renders a vi
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• x3/y3, Offsets the bottom left
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• attack time: Fade in time of th
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• x/y/z translation: Translates t
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3D Velocity (v1.3) Calculates the v
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When a valid scene has been specifi
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Input Properties • video: the vid
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image. Where it is black, you will
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Capture Frame 1 Input Properties
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Output Properties • tracking: Out
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What the store pointer does when th
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Calc Angle 3D (v1.3) Given a pair o
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Calc MBT Converts a measure, beat a
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Page 243 and 244: • horz ctr: In tandem with vert c
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Page 247 and 248: Properties • hue: The hue of the
Page 249 and 250: Comparator Compares two numbers. In
Page 251 and 252: Input Properties • video in: The
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Page 275 and 276: Eyes++ (v1.3) Tracks the position,
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Page 283 and 284: Get Media Count Returns the number
Page 285 and 286: HID Value Listener Receives values
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Page 301 and 302: Limit Resolution Scales the incomin
Page 303 and 304: Listener Receives a value from a Br
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• address: The OSC address to whi
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Output Properties • rgb out: The
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Performance Monitor Performance Mon
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• preload: When triggered, preloa
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Point Tracker (v1.1) Generates a ve
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Properties • trigger: When a trig
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Program Change Watcher Watches for
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• keep aspect: When turned on, th
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Random Generates random numbers. In
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• force 4:3: When this parameter
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Scaler (v1.1) Scales a video stream
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Selector Routes multiple inputs of
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Send HiRes Control Sends a MIDI Hig
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• cue list: The cue list for the
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norm: The parameter value ranges be
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Send Poly Pressure Sends a MIDI Pol
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• param 1, param 2, etc: variable
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You can insert up to nine variable
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• eom char: The character that si
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• rotation: When the shape input
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Slit Scan Scrolls one line or colum
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these parameters, the watcher will
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• right trig level: Whenever the
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total output range is 24 Khz (half
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method of playing long sounds is to
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• sound high: The last sound in a
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• volume: The volume of the voice
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Output Properties • video out: Th
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Stage Mouse Watcher (v1.3) Outputs
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String Formatter (v1.2) This actor
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TCP In Watcher - Binary Reads a fix
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TCP Send Data Formats and sends dat
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Text (v1.3) Outputs text of arbitra
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. descenders (like the letter “j
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Text/ure Superimposes text on a vid
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The Edge Performs “edge detection
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Timer Measures elapsed time. Input
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Input Properties • trig in: The i
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Update Snapshot Updates an existing
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Video Delay Delays a video stream.
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Video Inverter Inverts the color of
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Video Preload Preloads a video or r
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Input Properties • video in: The
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Zoomer Zooms in or out on source vi
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Controls Reference 2D Slider Displa
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Background Draws a solid background
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Bin Picker Picks media files groupe
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• Show Name: If this checkbox is
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• Show Value of Linked Properties
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• Horiz. Alignment: The horizonta
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• Color: Sets color of the dial.
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Monitor Provides monitoring of vide
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• Minimum Value: The minimum poss
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Settings Dialog Control Properties
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Stage Preview Displays a thumbnail
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Video Picker Allows the user to pic
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• Bold/Italic/Underline: When che
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