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Using Cropping To Create Square Videos and Square Photos

28/5/2016

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Updated: Jan 2021
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We had a request from a RightBooth user asking if it was possible to capture photos at the size 1080x1080 pixels, in other words, capturing square photos.

When asking why they wanted to do this, they showed us their required printer layout with four square photos arranged in a 2x2 grid placed above text as shown opposite.

This involves the use of photo cropping.
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To Crop or Not To Crop?

If you look at the video and photo sizes listed in RightBooth Webcam Video and Photo Settings, you will see that your webcam can be set to provide a camera feed at one of a range of sizes, including 640x480, 800x600, 1280x720 and 1920x1080.
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When you choose one of the webcam sizes, then your video and photo files will also be captured at these sizes.  You will notice that with all the sizes available, none of them are square.  So how do you capture square photos?
Here we will focus on how to capture photos at the size 1080x1080 pixels.

Applying Crop

  • In RightBooth Settings, click on the Cameras tab, then select the  Webcam photo tab
  • Set the Photo size to 1920x1080  (this assumes your webcam offers this resolution, such as the Logitech C920)
  • Tick the Crop webcam photos checkbox
  • ​Set the W and H values to 1080​
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How Cropping Affects The Photo Capture

Without cropping turned on, your photo files will be captured at 1920x1080 pixels like this:
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Photo saved at 1920x1080
But if you enable cropping (as described above) your photos will be cropped to the area indicated by the red outline and will be saved as square photo files having the dimensions 1080x1080 pixels.
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Captured at 1920x1080
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Photo saved at 1080x1080
You can see that by enabling cropping RightBooth will discard some of the webcam image in order to create your required photo aspect ratio.

Points to note:
  • When you turn on cropping, the cropped area will always be centrally over the webcam image
  • The cropping width and height value cannot be bigger than the webcam image
  • The cropped area is all that will be shown to users during the event, and is also the size that will be used in the Event Designer and the Print Layout Designer

Cropping DSLR Camera photos
This is similar to cropping webcam photos.
  • In RightBooth Settings, go to the Cameras tab, then click the DSLR tab
  • Tick: 'Crop DSLR photos'
  • Set the W and H to 1080
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Altering The Maximum Video Recording Time With The Count Down Item

25/5/2016

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Last updated: Jan 2021

When you create a new event, the maximum video recording time is initially set to 20 seconds. This value is to be found in the Event type section of the Event Designer and can be changed as required.

If you are adding questions into your event that require video answers, this value is also used as the initial maximum recording time for each new question.
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Altering the Video Recording Time with the Count Down Item

If you visit the Record Video screen in the Screen Editor, you will see that the countdown item is shown counting down from the default value of 20 seconds.  You can alter this as follows:
  • Click on the animating Countdown item to select it.
  • On the Toolbox, click Properties to show the Countdown Properties Toolbox
  • Alter the starting value of the countdown, in the screen shot opposite we have changed this to 40 seconds.
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Note: If you alter this countdown value on the Record video screen, the change will also appear in the Event Type section mentioned previously.

Altering the Recording Time For Individual Video Answers

It is important to understand that changing the Maximum recording video time (mentioned above) will only change the recording time of RightBooth's standard video recording feature.  Changing this value does NOT affect the maximum recording time of any video answers included in your event.

If you need to modify the maximum recording time of a video answer, do the following:
  • In the Screen Editor, choose the Answer screen from the screen list
  • Use the Answer Up/Dow on the main Toolbox to show the video answer screen that requires a different recording time
  • Follow the steps above to alter the Countdown item to the required maximum video recording time.

In summary:
  • the video recording screen and the video answer screens each maintain their own independent maximum video recording times
  • use the countdown edit method described in this article to alter any of the maximum recording times for your event videos  or video answers.
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Using Question Branching in your Events

5/5/2016

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Updated: Jan 2021

Note: Before reading this article please familiarise yourself with creating Question and Answer events by reading these two articles:  Question and Answer Events  and  Multiple Choice Question and Answer Events
When creating question and answer events you will have noticed the Branch columns in the Question table of the RightBooth Event Designer, entitled:  Multi Branch and Branch.  

Branch values allow you to present different sub-sets of questions to users depending upon answers that they provide to multiple choice questions.  When a user selects a particular answer to a multi choice question, you can then specify the next question in the table that will be shown to the user.
Branch values can be any of the following:
  • Next - the user will be shown the next question in the Question table.  This is the default value for all branches.
  • Finished - the user will not be shown further questions from the Question table and the event will move on to the next logical screen in the Event.
  • Question ID - the user will be shown the question in the Question Table that has an ID number that matches the branch number.
Let's explain all this by way of a simple example.  In the following screen shot you can see an event containing 5 questions, the first being a multiple choice question which asks for the age of the user:
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You can see Question 1 contains 4 possible answers, and notice that each answer has also been given a Branch value in the 'Multi Branch' column.  Also notice that questions 2 to 5 have different 'Branch' values in the Branch column, for example Question 3 has the branch value 'Finished'.  The first point to remember here is that Multiple choice questions use the Multi Branch column and all other question types use the Branch column.

So let's explain what happens for each answer to Question 1

Under 14
For this user age range we only want to know what they are expecting for Christmas.
After selecting Under 14 to question 1, RightBooth will use the associated Multi Branch value for answer Under 14, which is Next.  The user will then be shown Question 2 asking about Christmas presents.  They then record a video answer and the Question 2 Branch value of Finished will prevent the user from being asked any further questions from the table.

15 to 18
For this user age range we only want to know what profession they are interested in after leaving school.
After selecting 15 to 18 to question 1, RightBooth will use the associated Multi Branch value for answer 15 to 18, which is 3.  The user will then be shown Question 3,  asking about leaving school.  They then record a video answer and the Question 3 Branch value of Finished will prevent the user from being asked any further questions.

19 to 40
For this user age range we want to ask the user two questions, one about ambitions and the other about hobbies.
After selecting 19 to 40 to question 1, RightBooth will use the associated Multi Branch value for answer 19 to 40, which is 4.  The user will then be shown Question 4 asking about ambitions.  They then record a video answer and the Question 4 Branch value of Next will then show Question 5 about hobbies. After typing their text answer for Hobbies, the user will not be asked any further questions because there are no more remaining in the table after Question 5.

41+
For this age range we only want to know about their hobbies.
After selecting 41+ to question 1, RightBooth will use the associated Multi Branch value for answer 41+, which is 5. 
The user will then be shown Question 5 asking about hobbies.  Again they will not be asked any further questions.

This very simple example shows how it is possible to change the type and number of questions asked to each user depending upon answers given to other questions.  You are free to add as many multiple choice questions and branch conditions as you need.  You can also branch back to previous questions if required.

Here is another example:
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This Question Table uses multi choice questions with branching to create 4 different paths through the remaining questions.
  • A younger male will be asked about career ambitions
  • An older male will be asked about career reflections
  • A younger female will be asked how having children might affect their career
  • An older female will be asked how having children affected their career.

Notice that to achieve this 4 way path, we added the age question twice, one for males and one for females.
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