Creating Segments

There are several ways to create Segments in VIAN, depending on your Use-Case you may choose one of the following:

  1. Time Slice Dragging allows you to define a start and an end-point of the new segment.

  2. Fast Segmentation will automatically create a new Segment from the last segments end, to your current time location.

  3. Interval Selection allows to define a start and an end-point with an infinite number of actions in between.

Time Slice Dragging

  1. In the Timeline, click on the name of the Segmentation you want to add a Segment to.

  2. The Segmentation should now be highlighted with a steel-blue color.

  3. On the Timeline-Scale, Right-Press and drag (while holding the the Right Button down) from the segment start to the Segment end and Release.

  4. In the appearing Context Menu, choose Add Segment.

Note

Options

  1. Name, how the template should appear in the “New Project Dialog”

  2. Include, which entities of your project should be exported.

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The Export Template Dialog

Fast Segmentation

  1. In the Timeline, click on the name of the Segmentation you want to add a Segment to.

  2. The Segmentation should now be highlighted with a steel-blue color.

  3. On the Timeline-Scale, Right-Click onto the end Position of your new Segment.

  4. In the appearing Context Menu, choose New Segment.

Note

Alternatively, one can create a new Segment using the Main Menu by triggering:

Create/Add Segment

Note

Forward vs. Backward Segmentation By default, VIAN uses a Backward Segmentation algorithm when fast-segmenting. This means, that the new segment is created from the last Segment’s end to the current time.

Alternatively, you may activate Forward Segmentation in the Timeline/Options Menu, this means, that the new segment is created from the current time to the next Segment’s start or the end of the movie, cutting the overlapping Segment if existing.

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Interval Selection

  1. In the Timeline, click on the name of the Segmentation you want to add a Segment to.

  2. The Segmentation should now be highlighted with a steel-blue color.

  3. Navigate to the start point of your segment.

  4. Press Ctrl + W to set a start-point. A new green line should appear.

  5. Navigate to the end-point of your Segment.

  6. Press Ctrl + E to finish up the new Segment

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