Trans Lucy Manual

Trans Lucy 1.0.1 Thank you for using Trans Lucy. Trans Lucy is a radical new way to watch DVDs on your computer. Unlike other computer DVD players, Trans Lucy lets you float the video display above your other applications. Trans Lucy goes one step further by allowing you make the video display translucent so you can still see and work with your documents that are "behind-the-scenes." A Note About Video Translucency Trans Lucy can only display video translucently on computers with video cards that support Quartz Extreme. Quartz Extreme is an advanced graphics system that is used in many parts of Mac OS X. Visit Apple Computer's web site at www.apple.com for more information regarding Quartz Extreme. To easily test if your computer supports Quartz Extreme move your mouse cursor over a white area on screen. If the mouse cursor has a shadow then your computer supports Quartz Extreme. Note that if you have more than one video card/monitor then you should look at the mouse cursor on each monitor since Quartz Extreme may only be available on some of your video cards/monitors. Trans Lucy Controller The Controller is the main interface for Trans Lucy. The Controller is used for such things as playing/pausing movies, adjusting properties of playback and display, and sound volume. Much of the interface in the Controller is similar to a home DVD player, but some is unique to Trans Lucy. The section will describe the Controller interface. Title The Title button jumps to the current title's menu. If a title has already been viewed, clicking Title will continue playback at the last location viewed. Location/Time Display The Location/Time display shows the current location on the disc being viewed and the current time of that location. The term location means either the current title on the disc or the current chapter within a title on the disc. Clicking the word "title" or "chapter" switches between Title and Chapter mode. If "title" is clicked the text changes to "chapter" and vice versa. Clicking on the numeric portion of this display toggles between elapsed time and remaining time. While in Title mode time elapsed/remaining for the current title is displayed. While in Chapter mode time elapsed/remaining for the current chapter of the current title is displayed. Jog Shuttle The Jog Shuttle is used to quickly advance or rewind the viewing location. When not pressed the Jog Shuttle always points up. Clicking and holding at different locations on the Jog Shuttle performs different actions. Clicking on the right side of the Jog Shuttle will continuously advance the video display at different rates. Clicking near the top of the Jog Shuttle on the right side playback advances in a slow fast forward mode. While continuing to hold the mouse down, but drag lower on the Jog Shuttle the video will advance at a faster rate. The rate can be adjusted by dragging to different places on the Jog Shuttle. Clicking on the left side of the Jog Shuttle will beha…