cdlu
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jokiin said:What we have on screen is what we felt was needed, beyond that can always be viewed on a PC, what we have is individually selectable as well, each item is selectable on or off, it's not all or nothing, there's some practicalities of having too much data on screen, think about where you're viewing the file, on a smaller display like a phone screen it's not so practical, if you need to use a larger screen like a computer then it negates the reason to have all the data overlaid anyway
I disagree with your premise. The point of having the data on the screen is so that it can be immediately accessed from any computer on any operating system at any time for any reason, not just the windows desktop you have at home with the specialised software that came with the camera. That's what standards are all about. I like your idea of doing it as closed captions/subtitles although I'm not sure the practical considerations of that.
And as the developer don't make decisions for me that don't need to be made. If I want to fill 40% of the screen with textual data, that is my prerogative. All the data that is available to the camera should be available to the user to be printed directly on the video by menu. The defaults don't have to have them on, but don't deprive me of the option because you wouldn't like it on your setup.
jokiin said:not sure what you mean about dancing values??
there's a couple of approaches to doing the data overlay and it's not easy to find something everyone likes, I agree it would be nicer if the font could be a bit smaller, some don't use an outline on the font which makes them smaller and neater but it also means the detail can get lost in the background at times, it also makes them near impossible to read on a small screen, these I can still read when played back on an iPhone
adding an outline and a high contrast colour like we have is for practical reasons, for this we needed function over asthetics
I also agree that the font in your screenshot is very ugly. It reminds me of a 1980s sci-fi's interpretation of how technology would look today. But the font isn't important, the information is. I think having a black band with a simple 6-point font across the bottom is all that's really needed. If I can use a unix shell with enough resolution to function on my blackberry's small screen there's really no excuse for not being able to fit huge amounts of data in a small amount of space in the image on a video. But even font size/colour/position/face can be a menu option.