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VCS

Homepage: http://p.outlyer.net/vcs/

Last release is 1.0.100a.
Next release will be 1.11 1), around the first week of march 2010.

VCS (Video Contact Sheet *NIX) is a script meant to generate contact sheets from videos, i.e. it creates an image composed of snapshots from the video.

It was written to run on Linux, and can run on other UNIX-like operating systems.

Two design decisions define the output: flexibility and quality preview. The contact sheet is configurable in many ways, even crazy ones in recent versions (flexibility); but it is also meant to provide as much information and represent the actual video quality as much as possible (quality preview), e.g. unlike most other video previewing software, the default snapshot size is not a thumbnail but the full video dimensions.

This is a one man project, a pretty big, complex, script written in bash so it's bound to be buggy in one way or another, you're encouraged to submit any bug reports before ditching the script completely. I'm no native English speaker either so typos are also bound to appear in this docs ;)

FIXME Note this documentation is a work in progress I've just started ;-)

Throughout this documentation VCS will most often be referred to as vcs. Options are referred often, usually in their short form, e.g. “use -i 30” means “include -i 30 in the command line, as in $ vcs -i 30 file”. A full list of command-line options is available, with links to the appropriate sections.

Capture and snapshot refer to the same thing: the individual images captured from the video.

The usual UNIX documentation conventions apply: # command means run command as root user, while $ vcs means run vcs as any user.

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