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What Do You Like to See in a New Topaz Moment?

Hello Topaz Moment users,

We are going to re-design our Topaz Moment product, it will have a completely new User Interface among other things.

What do you like to see in the new Topaz Moment ?

Please send us your wish list, ideas, and suggestions. We appreciate and value your inputs greatly.

You can reply to this thread here or send emails to kevin.zou[at]topazlabs[dot]com.

Many Thanks,
Kevin
Product Development
Topaz Labs, LLC
 
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  • Ed
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    1. Add some control of .jpg compression and/or provide Help information about the default compression so users know what is being used.

    2. Add some information to Help about exactly what noise suppression, auto levels and auto color are doing to make choosing settings better informed. Even users who know a lot about these as I do, don't know just how Moment is doing these things, making setting choices arbitrary and hit or miss.

    3. When using the settings for capture and review in an image viewer (Image Sent To... setting), the image viewer window open directly on top of the Moment screen after each capture. The upper right corners overlap so the X of moment is just below the X of the viewer window.. When closing the viewer it is easy to make an error and also close Moment. Its not hard to re-start and re-find the place where you stopped making frame captures and resume from there. But on restart the capture counter goes back to 1 (as it should), so there is a new Filename_0001.jpg. If you forget about this, the next successive saves are added to the same folder where there are already files with those name/numbers. Without any warning, the new files replace old files with the same names. If you are far into a video making serial captures, you can loose hours of earlier work this way and have to start over. There needs to be the usual warning about about to overwrite existing files.

    4. Related to 3. On re-start with the same video, would it be possible for Moment to detect that the same video is loaded and have a setting for Start From Last Video Position, just as there is a Start From Current Position when doing Batch caps?

    5. Must the little "Enhancing Still Image" window open up exactly on top of the center of the player window? When making caps manually, I would like to see that I am capturing the right frame so I can cancel immediately if necessary. Allow it to be dragged to a position where it will open on the next capture.

    6. I've used Moment for years, like it and would not want to be without it. The current user interface works for me. But overall I'd love to see more image enhancing features and more control over them. sure, its greedy! more ! more!
     
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  • grostami
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    1. Support for higher bit depths (16 or 32 bits per channel)

    2. Mac support

    3. Single image capture and process, as well as multi image TAG and process later. This is used in "client over the shoulder" sessions where you quickly want to tag multiple photos for later processing.

    4. Print option in the user interface. So that you can print immediately a photo of the processed image on the screen.

    5. FIELD advance option (in contrast to FRAME advance). Topaz already has the BEST deinterlacer in the world, might as well take advantage of it. This allows the user to have 60 pics a second to choose from instead of 30.

    6. The ability to toggle between a processed and unprocessed photo (for demonstration purposes).

    7. And finally (Pipe Dream feature) Topaz Adjust capabilities within the UI as well as color correction tools for White Balancing the final photo.

    Thank you Eric, Kevin, and Dr. Yang . . . I'm very excited about the next release of Topaz Moments.

    Greg Rostami
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    Thank you, Greg, for your valuable input.

    Your No.7 is not a pipe dream, we plan to have Fusion Express function embedded in the Topaz Moment. :-)

    Kevin
     
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  • Ed
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    Greg has made some excellent suggestions. His individual frame use seems similar to mine and I also do batch captures.

    One of the important categories of screen capure use is ultilitarian... making batch captures to create thumbs sheets or serial image sets that mainly document what is in the video. The other is the kind of creative use Greg describes, searching through a video for those sharp frames that are great compositions photographically. That use is where the quality of built in enhancement capabilities is important for time eficency. The goal would be 'no transfer to a photo editor needed!'

    Please don't forget the suggestion of Des for what he called 'smart capturing" that could combine the two. Batch capturing offers quickness and efficency. If it were capable of "smart capture," it could quickly identify and capture the best frames on the basis of sharpness and clarity for later sorting through for frames worthy of further processing.

    A possible new market is the convergence of still and video capabilities in better quality cameras in a range of prices... video cameras with credible still capabilities and still cameras with credible video capabilities, example the Panasonic DMC-G1.

    http://getsatisfaction.com/topazlabs/...
     
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  • grostami
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    Here is another Pipe Dream feature request . . .

    Auto Capture slow moving segments of the video with open eye detection and smile detection.

    In an environment of Event/Wedding photography the videographer can ask people to pose for a second while he's recording video.

    When the video is pre processed in Topaz Moments, the program would automatically determine the parts of the video where both the background and the subjects are moving VERY slowly hence it would TAG those areas for capture.

    The program could then use open eye and smile detection to determine the best frame to snap an AUTO photo.

    With this feature a videographer would simply open a video (or many videos) and Topaz Moments would automatically generate stills from the best parts of the video.

    Didn't I say it's a PIPE DREAM ;-)
    Greg Rostami
     
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  • jhon
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    1. Can open youtube URL ́S

    I have a Topaz Moment v3.5 version and I can ́t open a link of a url, can you help me=?
    Thanks Kevin
     
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  • ts
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    Hi Kevin
    One feature Id really like to see if a stills preview strip taken at regular intervals, every frame,every 1/2 second ,every second thirty seconds and so on as shown below

    Also it would be very nice if topaz moment worked with dvr-ms files
     
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