My notes on learning version 2021 - Update Gamma-Brightness

[John T Smith]

This is a plain text file so you will need to copy-paste any links into your web browser

Lots of Adobe and YouTube tutorial links, and a GREAT book to buy at Amazon

http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith/PrE2021.txt

[Steve Grisetti]

Thanks for recommending my book, John! Glad you found it helpful!

[John T Smith]

As I say in my Step 5, it is going to take time (and lots more reading) to be ready to assemble the vacation videos I hope to take next May into a coherent movie

If it happens I will go on a cruise to Alaska... right now waiting on the CDC to open US cruise ports, plus Canada to open ports to cruises since there is a stop at Vancouver BC... so, plenty of time to read/learn

[John T Smith]

I have updated my Step 5 with the following

I use VLC http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html as my video player
-both for video files on my computer drive, and for a movie disc

While testing STOP MARKERS mentioned on pages 250-251 of the book, I discovered 2 things
1 - the preview function in the program STOPS at the marker, it does not return to the menu
2 - the return to menu from the stop marker works when playing a disc with VLC
HOWEVER
- the movie also returns to the menu at the stop marker point when trying to play the entire movie
- so anything after the stop marker is ignored when trying to play the entire movie
- this behavior MAY be different with an actual DVD played to a TV, but for now I am not
- going to use any stop markers... unless I want "added scenes" AFTER the end of my movie

[Steve Grisetti]

It is highly recommend that you do NOT use Stop Markers except to separate two videos, as when you are adding bonus features after you main video.

Adding a Stop Marker to the end of a timeline can cause the program to bug up during rendering.

[John T Smith]

I've printed myself a reminder note to tape to the book page

A Stop Marker also returns a 'Play Movie from the beginning'
operation to the main menu.

So, to have added/bonus scenes, put a Stop Marker at the end
of the main movie, and then put the added/bonus scenes after
the end of the main movie. Then each of the added/bonus scenes
may end with a Stop Marker, to make each added/bonus scene
individual and separate, to return to the main menu when done.

[John T Smith]

File updated 12-6-20 with my notes on GPU Acceleration (bottom of the file)

[John T Smith]

Step 5 in file updated 12-7-2020 to discuss Gamma/Brightness Adjustment