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Batch Output
Batch is the most requested feature that is present
in Green Screen Wizard Pro 4.0. Unlike a normal batch process
where a file is merged or processed, Green Screen Wizard Pro
4.0 allows you to take two sets of files, a foreground set and
a background set, and multiply the two together. For example
if I had five backgrounds and three different foregrounds then
I would have 15 images when the process was done.
Green Screen Wizard Pro 4.0 now stores all of the
settings that created a file in the file itself. Refer to the
explanation of GSW files earlier. The batch process can use these
files in three ways. It can take the current image and just change
the settings. It can take the current image and replace the settings
and the background, or it can take the current image and replace
the foreground and replace the settings.
Lets try a few examples:
The simplest example is to take the current image
and replace the foreground image in the file. You would do this,
for example, if you took photos of a baseball team and wanted
to use the same background with each photo. To do this we specify
the directory that has a foreground image as we’d like to
merge. Then we specify the output directory where we would like
them to go, and then we start the batch. The process will continue
until every file in the batch folder has been merged.
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 This dialog shows
the last file processed:
Here is the output from the batch run.
Next let’s take our current image and replace
the background with all of the backgrounds found in a given directory.
We do this by selecting the background directory and running
the background process.
If we specify both a foreground directory and a background
directory, then for every foreground an image is created with
every background.
Now let’s see what would happen if we specify
a directory that has GSW files in it.
We choose to let the GSW file override the background
by checking the “Use GSW Background”.
Here’s what the GSW files looked like.
Here is the output from the GSW batch. Note
how the foreground image is scaled and shifted by the GSW files.
Also text and overlays can be added. With this ability you can
create your best “looks,” and then create output for
each look.
The batch system can produce low resolution thumbnail
output, but by default it creates high resolution normal output.
This is controlled by the output low resolution checkbox.
You may also select to renumber your output and select
the type of output.
By default the batch process creates an HTML file
that allows the user to view all of the files processed simultaneously.
This can be switched off by unchecking the Create HTML check
box.
Once a batch process has created all of its files,
the process terminates. If you check the box that says “Keep
Checking for New Files,” after the last file is process
the batch system will sleep for 1 second, and then it will look
to see if there are any new files in any of the specified folders.
If it finds one or more it will process them and then display
the last result in the last result box. This is a handy feature
if you’re doing tethered shooting. Every time the camera
stores a new file in a watched directory that file will be processed
and displayed.
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