Movie Capture
Introduction
Movie Capture captures movies of the Viewer from within Proto. You can record movies of interactive reports or data visualizations to send to clients or show during presentations. The movies created are in Windows Media (WMV) format and can be viewed on any Windows computer. The Movie Capture can also take still images of the screen.
Property Panel:
Movie Capture Settings
- Output File
- Specifies the file location where a recorded movie is saved. If the file location is blank, then the movie is written to a temporary file location.
- Preview Movie After Capture
- Toggles whether or not Windows Media Player should open and preview a Movie immediately after it is recorded
- Stop Capture Automatically
- Specifies the number of seconds after which to stop recording the Movie.
Capture Method
- Capture Entire Viewer
- Selecting this option sets the captured area to the dimensions of the Viewer.
- Capture Screen Selection
- Selecting this option allows the user to select a square area on the screen to capture. Press the "Select Area" button to use the cursor to make the selection or specify the coordinates of the capture area in the fields labeled "Manually Edit". The "Move with Viewer" check box specifies whether the selected capture area should stay in the same place in relation to the viewer menu.
Input Menu:
Movie Capture Connectors → Do Start Capture
Begins recording a movie of the specified Viewer area. Starting a movie capture twice will restart the recording, overwriting the previous movie file.
Accepted Datatypes:
- True/false
Movie Capture Connectors → Do Stop Capture
Ends the movie recording and saves it in the specified "Output File Location".
Accepted Datatypes:
- True/false
Movie Capture Connectors → Do Pause Capture
Pauses the movie recording until the Movie Recorder receives a message to start again and resume the capture or receives a message to stop.
Accepted Datatypes:
- True/false
Still Capture Connectors → Do Capture (to Clipboard)
Captures a still image of the specified Viewer area and copies it to the clipboard.
Accepted Datatypes:
- True/false
Property Connectors → Set Output File Location
Sets the file location where the recorded movies are saved. If the file location is blank, then the movie is written to a temporary file location.
Accepted Datatypes:
- Text
Triggered Outputs:
- Output Message:
- Get Output File Location
Property Connectors → Do Select Region To Capture
Turns the cursor into a selection tool which allows the user to draw a rectangular box to select the area of the Viewer to be captured.
Accepted Datatypes:
- True/false
Output Menu:
Get Output File Location
Gets the file path where the movies are being saved.
Output Datatype:
- Text
Triggered By:
- Input Message:
- Set Output File Location
- Action:
- Fire-On-Connect