Show/Hide Toolbars

Karaoke Video Creator

Navigation: Getting results > Images

Displaying images in the middle of the song

Scroll Prev Top Next More

To display image in the middle of the song place cursor position in the place that image should appear, click Insert CD+G Event button on the toolbar (toolbar-insertevent), and then select Display Image event type.

 

Display Image event allows to display the image on the screen. Before the image is displayed the screen is cleared.

 

The image will be displayed immediately after the last word before it is highlighted.

 

 

event-displayimage

 

File

You need to select the file containing the image. The following formats are supported:

 

BMP (Windows bitmaps)

JPG

PNG

 

To invoke the file selection dialog box select Browse button.

 

Link to file and Insert contents options

By default Karaoke Video Creator leaves the images on the hard disk and reads them when needed (Link to file option selected). This behaviour reduces the size of PK2 files and allows making changes to the images using image editors (you do not have to visit event again -- just edit the image and re-create video file). However if you delete the image file from disk, it will not be available.

 

If you would like to share your PK2 files select Insert contents option. It will cause Karaoke Video Creator to include the image in PK2 file, so you may send it over to a friend or delete image files. Note that if image source file is deleted you will not be able to edit it any more.

 

Keep on screen for N seconds

This setting controls how long will the image be visible before it is erased. Note that painting time (up to 10 seconds for a full screen sized picture) and erasing is not included, so the total time that the picture takes equals to the sum of painting time, display time, and erase time.

 

Selecting 0 will cause the image to become erased immediately after it is fully painted.

 

Border color

Choose the color that will surround the image. Note that it is different than Borders color setting in Colors event, as it refers to the area not taken by the image, and not only to the border of the screen.

 

Display mode and Erase mode

These settings control the way image is painted and erased. By default images are painted and erased immediately. You may change it by selecting any of the display effects.

 

Alignment

You may select the position of the picture if it is not full screen sized. Simply select the appropriate rectangle. By default images are centered.

 

Force scaling

This option will force the image to be scaled to the size defined in Width and Height boxes. This size cannot be larger than the full screen.

 

Dithering

If the number of colors in the image is larger than 16, Karaoke Video Creator will reduce it. You may select the algorithm that is used to make the image look as good as possible with the lower number of colors. Selecting none will disable any dithering. The simples way to see how each of the algorithms works is to select it and then to click the Preview button.

 

Resizing

This setting controls the way image is scaled if its size is different from video resolution.

 

Fit will cause the image to be scaled up or down to take as much screen as possible.

Fit if larger (default setting) will scale the image only if it is too large, it will not stretch it.

Crop will not scale the image and will display as much of it as possible.

 

All resizing modes retain aspect ratio of the image.

 

Preview

Click this button to see how the picture will look.