preview doesn't scale
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Linux Stopmotion |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The preview windows shows the image in real size.
This is not a problem until your image resolution gets close to your screen resolution.
In that case the preview is cropped, only part of "canvas" is visible and it is impossible to prepare the frame to shoot.
Tested it on a laptop with a 1366x768 resolution screen and three input devices:
- Canon EOS 60D SLDR camera (1056x704 live view) - screenshot attached
- Logitech Quick Cam Pro 9000 webcam (1200x720)
- Manually imported pictures (5184 x 3456)
In the attached screenshot it is clearly visible that the captured image (4:3) is bigger than the previewed one (cropped to 16:9, like the screen). Pay attention to the white top/bottom borders: they are visible only in the captured image.
Changed in lsm: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
The other time this is a problem is when the capture resolution is small compared to the monitor resolution so your preview frame is too small to see properly. Eg when I use my usb capture device to get a 'live view' stream off my digital camera which is then previewed on a 1920 by 1200 monitor. My liveview stream is something like 640x320 px. The 1:1 preview becomes a thumbnail.
For this case the workarounds are to change the resolution of the monitor (of course this will lead to non-native resolution and mean the stopmotion widgets all get clunk and crammed in).
Another non-satisfactory workaround is to use a compositing window manager with a zoom program. There are a fair range of screen zoom options so perhaps one of them would be a good choice.