| Digital Media Converter: Applying Effects |
Applying Effects
Digital Media Converter provides a range of color balance and transform effects that you can apply to a file before conversion. You can also increase the audio volume. Using this feature, you can convert your videos and improve the quality in a single step. The effects are applied to all the files that you convert in a single session. This way you don't have to specify the effects for every single file. If you have many files selected for conversion and you don't want to apply the effects to all the files, you would have to uncheck some of the files and convert them separately.
Understanding Effect Settings
Video Effects
The first 3 effects can be used to alter the brightness or contrast of the videos scheduled for conversion. These effects can be used to correct dark or dull videos, videos that are too bright or videos with incorrect composition. The supported settings are:
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Brightness: Brightness is the overall light level of the video or image. The brightness slider can be used to alter the brightness of the video. The value ranges from 0% to 200%. A value of 100% represents the brightness level of the original video. Any value below this would darken the video, while values above 100 would brighten it.
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Contrast: The contrast defines the difference between the light and dark regions of an image. The value ranges from 0% to 200%. A value below 100 would reduce the contrast of the image and a value above 100 would increase the contrast.
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Gamma: The Gamma values can be changed by using the slider. They range from 1% to 200%.
You can also manipulate your videos before converting them by using the following effects:
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Gray Scale: The Gray Scale effect converts the colors in an image to shades of gray. This can be used effectively to convert colored videos to black and white videos.
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Flip Horizontally: This effect turns an image upside down. This can be used to correct captured videos from a camera that was held upside-down, and videos converted from the YUV color space to RGB color space that sometime turn out upside down.
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Mirror Image: This produces a mirror image (right and left reversed) of the video or picture you intend to convert.
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Invert Colors: This transform converts a video image to its negative by inverting all its colors. For example, if you have the color blue in your image then it will be converted to yellow.
To apply video effects to all files in the main screen:
- On the Tools menu, click on Video Effects.
- In the Effect Settings window, specify the Video Effects that you want to apply to the files you intend to convert.
- Click on OK.
Audio Levels
The volume in the converted file can be increased by using this option. The volume increase will be applied to all the converted files. To increase the volume:
- On the Tools menu, click on Video Effects.
- Check the option Change volume.
- Drag the slider to the desired audio volume level. The range is from 100% to 400%.
- Click on OK.
By default, the audio volume level is at 100% i.e. the audio volume of the original file.
If you want to undo the changes you have done in the Effect Settings window, then click on Clear All Effects. To restore the default effect settings, click on Restore Defaults.
To preview the difference in a file after an effect is applied, select the file from the Preview Files dropdown. Then check the Preview with Effects box.
NOTE:
The Preview with effects option will not function for DVR-MS and MOV files. However, effects will be applied to these files if they are present in the batch being converted.
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