Bin Picker thumbnails

mark

The maximum size of the thumbnails is 64 x 48 pixels. The reasoning behind this is to save time when opening your patch: the thumbnails are saved with the patch. If you ask Isadora to generate all the thumbnails when you open the patch, it can take a long, long time if you have a lot of media because it must open each media file and generate the thumbnail. It's very problematic for VJs for instance, who have hundreds and hundreds 's of clips sometimes.

Now, the thumbnails are stored in an uncompressed format. So 64 x 48 x 4 = about 6K per item. E.g., 500 clips = 3 megabytes. That seemed like a reasonable trade off to me -- speed of loading vs. the size of the Isadora document.

Increasing the size of the thumbnails is something I can do. But it will mean increasing the size of the file significantly. For instance, a 256 x 192 image is 49K. 500 clips = 24 megabytes. I guess that's not too much in today's terms. Let me think about a good way to accomplish this and I'll see what I can do.

Best Wishes,

Mark

Skulpture

Maybe an option in the preferences?

Thumbnail size:

Small - 64 x 48

Medium - 192 x 144

Large - 320 x 240

Just a thought?

craigw

That works for me.

craigw

Hi Mark,

I was just revisiting this question because you had said you were going to think about it.

Is increasing the thumbnail resolution still an option? I desperately would love to increase them.

Thanks

Skulpture

I also think this a valid feature request. Could be handy for installations and touch screens?

craigw

Thant's how we use it, on a touch screen.

craigw

Being about to see the pictures or words in higher resolution would create a more impressive user interface look.

Thanks again.

craigw

Able not about.

Ops.

DusX

Has this been officially entered as a feature request?
http://troikatronix.com/support/isadora/

dbini

Did this ever get addressed? In Isadora 4 the Settings menu has an option to define Media Thumbnail resolution up to 640px, but changing this value does not have any effect on the size of the thumbnails, even after rebuilding, or restarting and importing new media.
I would love to have the option for slightly larger thumbnails for my animation patches.

DusX

@dbini said:

Media Thumbnail resolution up to 640px

This resolution is created (when you use file/Rebuild Media Thumbnails). If you are using the 'Bin Picker' control, you will see an immediate update to the thumbnails, since the default of 48px is less than the default thumbnail size of the bin picker (64px). Of course if you set the preference to 256 and the Bin Picker thumb size to 256, you have large clear images.