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General editor settings

Settings cog​

The settings cog of the AD Editor can be found in the top-left corner of the screen and can be toggled open and closed by clicking on the cog icon.

Within the menu there are six different categories of settings:

  1. Preferences
  2. Appearance & Behaviour
  3. Hotkeys
  4. Microphone
  5. Sound
  6. Video

Preferences​

Should you wish to share your editor settings such as your hotkeys and appearance preferences, you can click on 'Export'.

You will then be able to share the exported preference file with someone else and they can 'Import' it in order to implement the same preferences as yours.

You can click on the 'Restore default' button to restore the Zille default settings.

Appearance & Behaviour​

In 'Appearance & Behaviour' you can manage the following settings:

Keep latest events open

  • Toggling this setting to 'on' will make the latest event you have viewed stay open even after you have navigated outside of the event's timecodes.

Continuous recording

  • Continuous recording can be toggled 'on' or 'off'.
  • Enabling auto stop will make your recordings stop automatically at the end-time of all events.
  • Enabling auto skip will ensure you automatically skip to the next event during continuous recording, rather than let the video play through the time between events.
  • Enforcing minimum countdown will ensure that you always have your personalised minimum countdown in place even if the next recording follows on immmediately from the previous one.

Timeline

You can use the 'Tick boxes' provided to show or hide the following features on the timeline:

  • Event text: this will show the contents of each event
  • Scene markers: this will show the frames where there is a scene change
  • Video waveform: this will show the audio waveform of the video
  • Video subtitles: this will show the subtitles of the video

Hotkeys​

The Zille AD Editor has a variety of hotkeys available to allow people to work effectively. An overview of the available hotkeys can be found in the menu.

The default hotkeys can be changed to suit your preferences and keyboards. Once a hotkey has been changed, the Zille AD Editor will remember your settings for the next time you're working on an assignment.

To change your hotkeys:

  1. Click on the current hotkey
  2. Enter your preferred hotkey
  3. Click on 'Save'
  4. Cancel a hotkey change by clicking on 'Cancel'

Tip: You can also make a hotkey 'override default', which will make the hotkey behaviour work over the natural behaviour of that key. For example: If you have set a hotkey with the 'forwards' or 'backwards' arrows on your keyboard, then those keys will respond to your chosen hotkey rather than navigating you backwards and forwards in the video, which is the natural behaviour of those keys.

Microphone settings​

In 'Microphone settings' you can make quick changes to the way in which you record your audio.

Selecting the microphone you want to use for recording.

  • There is a drop down menu in which you can select your preferred microphone and settings for recording.

Input volume

  • Here you can use the sliding bar to increase (sliding right) and decrease (sliding left) the volume you want to record in.

Microphone meter

  • You can show or hide the microphone meter whilst recording, this can help with spotting potential microphone issues during recording. Green, yellow, orange and red are used to signal sound volume.

Advanced settings

There are settings available for turning on or off the following funtionalities:

  • Noise suppression: This is a feature which automatically filters the audio to remove background noise .
  • Auto gain control: This is a feature in which a sound source automatically manages changes in the volume of its source media to maintain a steady overall volume level.
  • Echo cancellation: This is a feature which attemots to prevent echo effects on a two-way audio connection by attempting to reduce or eliminate crosstalk between the user's output device and their input device.

Sound​

The following settings are available for sound:

  • Volume: The first volume bar allows you to adjust the overall volume of the AD Editor.
  • Audio skimming: Enabling audio skimming will make a quick preview of the audio play as you navigate backwards and forwards in the video with the backwards and forwards arrows on your keyboard.

Program sound:

  • Volume: The volume control within the program sound box allows you to control the volume of the video which is playing specifically.
  • Volume during recording: You can choose the video volume you prefer whilst recording. This means that during your recordings, the video volume will play at a higher or lower level than when you normally play the video.

Video​

The following information and settings are available for video:

  • Duration: the lenght of the video is displayed
  • Frame rate: the frames per second in the video are displayed
  • Start frame: the frame which the audio output will start at can be edited by project managers