Figure 1: ImageMixer screenshot
Figure 2: ImageMixer screenshot with product enhancements
Introduction
This document covers product design enhancements to the Canon ImageMixer video editing software. It describes the idea behind the addition of new design features that will improve the users’ experience.
Product Description
Canon ImageMixer is video editing software used for processing videos shot using digital camcorders. The software is capable of post processing the video input in H.264 format and creating output video in H.264, mpeg or DVD formats. While there are many features that the product offers, the design of the user interface has significant scope for improvement. The rest of the document attempts to enhance the product through the addition of better and useful product design features.
Current user interface
This document covers product design enhancements to the Canon ImageMixer video editing software. It describes the idea behind the addition of new design features that will improve the users’ experience.
Product Description
Canon ImageMixer is video editing software used for processing videos shot using digital camcorders. The software is capable of post processing the video input in H.264 format and creating output video in H.264, mpeg or DVD formats. While there are many features that the product offers, the design of the user interface has significant scope for improvement. The rest of the document attempts to enhance the product through the addition of better and useful product design features.
Current user interface
Figure 1 represents a screenshot of the user interface. On the left is the library that allows the user to create multiple video albums from several video captures. On the right is a preview screen for the videos and below that is the graphical timeline of the video. It is evident from the picture that a lot of features expected from a video editing tool are missing from the organization and layout of this product.
Enhanced user interface
Figure 2 represents a screenshot of the user interface with new buttons and modifications.
The additional features and enhancements are described below.
1. Button to select additional videos to include in this movie
2. Tab to increase the width of the preview screen
3. Choose transition schemes from one clip to the next. Special effects button is used to add other effects to the video.
Figure 2 represents a screenshot of the user interface with new buttons and modifications.
The additional features and enhancements are described below.
1. Button to select additional videos to include in this movie
2. Tab to increase the width of the preview screen
3. Choose transition schemes from one clip to the next. Special effects button is used to add other effects to the video.
The following features are related to the preview/edit video screen on the right in order to make it easy for the user to perform these functions. It is expected that a user will perform these tasks on the video very often.
4. Add color effects to the video
5. Adjust brightness and contrast to the video clip
6. Incorporate external audio input into the file
7. Preview the edited video file
8. Button to create the final movie
9. Cut portions of the video that are not needed
10. Add captions to the video at specified times
11. Button to add credits to the video file
12. With so much video content on websites and blogs, this button makes it easy to upload the current video to any webpage.
13. Preview the video on external monitor display output
14. Repeat the preview in continuous loop
The following additions are made to the graphical timeline of the video.
15. View time markers on the previewed video
16. Zoom timescale
17. Display frame information of the video to help user analyze the video frame by frame
18. Keep clip from current marker to end of video
19. Keep from beginning of clip to current marker
15. View time markers on the previewed video
16. Zoom timescale
17. Display frame information of the video to help user analyze the video frame by frame
18. Keep clip from current marker to end of video
19. Keep from beginning of clip to current marker
Summary
This document details simple product design enhancements to the ImageMixer software tool. These additional features will help the user perform often repeated tasks with the click of buttons that are readily available and easily accessible. These will greatly enhance the user experience by making things very intuitive in their minds through the use of appropriate icons and thus promote product penetration in the market.
This document details simple product design enhancements to the ImageMixer software tool. These additional features will help the user perform often repeated tasks with the click of buttons that are readily available and easily accessible. These will greatly enhance the user experience by making things very intuitive in their minds through the use of appropriate icons and thus promote product penetration in the market.
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