Clesh is intuitive and simple to use. Clesh is designed to be easy to learn by experimenting.
You can find out a lot by clicking and dragging things around the interface.
If you have shot some video on a DV tape, plug your video camera
into your PC with a Firewire cable and use Clesh Load to upload videos into your Clesh account.
As well as also uploading files from your computer. For Clesh Load - PC this is .avi and .jpg files.
For Clesh Load - Mac this is .mov / .jpg / .wav files. This free software runs on Windows XP and Mac OS 10.4 and is available to download
here.
If you have taken a video on your mobile phone, you can upload the video directly into your
Clesh account using the "upload" option in the Clesh mobile player. Follow the instructions
here.
Below is a list of the Clesh icons within the user interface and the controls belonging to them:
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Web Publishing Button - Left click to open the folder, left click on the icon when the folder is open will close the folder. (This folder will show any files that have been chosen to be exported for Web Publication. It will be shown in the three stages of 'Queued' / 'Compressing' / 'Published') Right click on the icon will bring up the Publishing Management page for Web Publishing and will allow you to change your settings. |
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Mobile Publishing Button - Left click to open the folder, left click on the icon when the folder is open will close the folder. (This folder will show any files that have been chosen to be exported for Mobile Publication. It will be shown in the three stages of 'Queued' / 'Compressing' / 'Published') Right click on the icon will bring up the Publishing Management page for Mobile Publishing and will allow you to change your settings. |
Other icons
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Help Button - Left click on this will open up a new window taking you to the Clesh help page |
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Autosaved Files Button - Left click to open the folder, left click on the icon when the folder is open will close the folder. (This shows files that have been saved automatically if the account / web browser was closed down during work on a project. It will save files from when the last change was performed before the account was closed. This can then be left click and dragged back into the Red 'Edit' Window or into a folder in 'Files'.) |
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Chat Button - Left click to open the folder to open the chat window. |
When you log onto your Clesh account you will find the interface ready to be used. The Blue window on the left hand side is the 'Play' window
and the Red window on the right hand side is the 'Record' window.
The files folder is already open and can be closed or opened by clicking on the icon. To start editing, click and drag a file into the speckle
on the play window or alternatively, double click on the file in the files folder and it will appear in the play window. To play the video, click on the image.
To zoom in or out of the timeline you can click on the following buttons. To zoom in click the plus or zoom out by clicking the minus.
You can also deselect the visual by clicking the TV 
or deselect the
audio by clicking on the speaker 
, next to the timeline, both under the
video and in the active timeline below.
To navigate through the video you can use the buttons either side of the timecode. The timecode consists of 8 digits split into two's. e.g.03:32:45:21.
This is broken down into hours, minutes, seconds and frames. Hours = 0-23 / Minutes = 0-59 / Seconds = 0-59 / Frames = 0-24 in UK.
Left clicking on the buttons either side of the timecode can be used for:
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Moving forward one frame |
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Moving backward one frame |
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Moving forward to next clip |
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Moving backward to next clip |
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Moving forward to end |
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Moving backward to end |
By right clicking on the buttons it will do the opposite to it's normal command e.g. Right click moves forward one frame, left click moves backward one frame.
Many things on the interface can be dragged from one part
and dropped on other parts. If something can be dragged, you will see the icon
follow the mouse as you drag it.
Alternatively to navigate through the video you can use the mouse cursor to drag the white vertical bar across the timeline at any speed you like.
Once you have chosen the clip that you want to take into your edit window you can select your in point 
by clicking on the timeline to find the beginning
of the clip you would like to take or by typing in the timecode (if known) in the timecode space on the left hand side of the in point button.
To select your out point 
click on the timeline to find the end of the clip you would like to take or by typing in the timecode (if known)
in the timecode space on the right hand side of the out point button.
- The timecode between the in and out point buttons shows the length of the clip between the in and out points
- The in point must be before the out point in the timeline
- The Black line (Selection Indicator) indicates the section on the timeline selected by the in and out points
Once the in and out points have been marked, left click on the video in the play (Blue) window and drag the video into the record (Red) window.
The Forbidden technologies logos 
that appear around the edge of the picture in the record (Red) window are an indicator that you are viewing the last
frame of a clip.
Repeat the previous steps as necessary until you have all your clips in the edit window.
Open the "Files" window and drag an icon into the "Play" (Blue) window. Double clicking a video icon in the "Files" window will
open additional "Play" windows. Single or Double click the video in the "Play" (Blue) or "Record" (Red) window to play it.
Single click on the window to stop playing.
Clesh may have to fetch video from the internet or from
your web cache. Speckle shows that this is happening. After a short while,
the speckle will be replaced with real content.
When there is a video in either the "Play" (Blue) or the "Record" (Red) window, there is a coloured navigation bar visible underneath it.
This bar shows video and audio around the current frame. Click on the navigation bar to go to the frame you want.
You can also drag the mouse around the navigation bar to look around a video.
The "+" and "-" buttons zoom in and out of the navigation bar.
Once a clip is selected, you can drag it from the "Play" (Blue) window into the "Record" (Red) window by dragging the video
displayed in the "Play" (Blue) window into the "Record" (Red) window. This inserts the selected clip at the current position in the "Record" (Red) window.
Underneath the navigation bar is an active time line. This shows similar information to the navigation bar, but is active,
so you can manipulate it directly with the mouse. The time line and navigation bars can be set to different scales.
There are tracks for comments, slides, chapters and subtitles, as well as video and audio.
The record (Red) window can never be closed down, only the video clips cleared. This action is performed by clicking on the cross.
It has similar controls to the play (Blue) window in the short cut keys. Click on the picture to play and again to pause.
Once you have dragged your video clips into the record (Red) window, they will appear on your record timeline titlebar,
with different colours representing different clips.
Displayed on the right hand side of the record timeline titlebar are the:
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Video Track |
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Audio Tracks 1-4 |
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Comment track |
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Slideshow track |
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Chapter track |
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Subtitle track |
These options can be disabled or made active by either left clicking on
the icon or by left clicking on the tracks button on the right hand side of the icons.
This will bring up a tick list of the icons and by left clicking on a tick will remove a track from the timeline titlebar.
These can be re-added by left clicking on the tick again to enable it.
These options can be disabled or made active by either left clicking on
the icon or by left clicking on the tracks button on the right hand side of the icons.
This will bring up a tick list of the icons and by left clicking on a tick will remove a track from the timeline titlebar.
These can be re-added by left clicking on the tick again to enable it.
The buttons along the top of the record timeline titlebar are:
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Create edit point - Left click on this will create a cut edit at the location of the vertical white line. The edit will effect all active tracks at that location in the timeline. To undo an edit, bring the vertical white line onto the edit and select the create edit point to join two clips together as one if possible. |
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Sync button - (Tracks that are in-sync will be displayed with the same colour e.g. Visual and audio tracks when first put on the timeline are the same colour as they are in-sync.) To sync tracks clicking on the padlocked icon will sync selected tracks, this is visible by them becoming the same colour. To un-sync tracks, click on the unlocked padlock and all the selected tracks will become un-synced, indicated by the difference in colour of all the tracks. |
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Gaps button - Left click on this will create a gap (the gap is relative to how zoomed in you are on the timeline) between all the tracks that are in-sync at that place in the timeline. Right click will close the gap so that the two tracks are next to each other. |
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Create effect button - This creates a dissolve effect between two clips. The dissolve by default is 5 frames in length in each direction. The dissolve can then be extended or shortened depending on artistic preference, this can be done by clicking and dragging on the active timeline double sided trim tool. Currently previewing dissolves can only be done by scrolling frame by frame. If a dissolve is not able to be created between an edit point, it may be that one or both video clips don't have enough extra footage at their source for a dissolve to be implemented. To include a dissolve, one or both clips may need to be made shorter in length. |
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Undo button - Left clicking performs an undo command and by right clicking will perform a redo command. The top left hand side of the record timeline titlebar will inform you of the number of changes that have been made. |
You can trim edit points on the timeline by moving the mouse to the edit point and dragging it around. Only selected tracks are trimmed.
You can select tracks by clicking on the icons on the right hand side of the active timeline. Trimming with the right mouse button trims only
the track that the cursor is over.
You can save your work by dragging the video from the "Record" (Red) window to the "Files" window.
A new file is created every time you save. Files cannot be overwritten. Only the selected tracks will be saved.
Don't worry if you do not save your work before exiting Clesh - there is an autosave facility,
which keeps track of all the edits you make. The next time you log in, simply look for your file in the Autosave window
(icon with a cross). Drag it out of the autosave window and drop into the "Record" (Red) window to continue editing.
Videos edited in Clesh can be edited by anyone with the password to the particular account. You can also edit files saved on one computer
from another computer later on.
Colour correction is an option available within Clesh, to implement it right click on an area in the record (Red) window
and drag vertically to increase or decrease levels. This is dependent on which colour is selected in the record (Red) window.
For example if you select a black area on the picture the dark levels will be adjusted and selecting a white area on the picture will
adjust the light levels.
To see which clips have been affected with colour correction, right clicking on the video track icon at the right hand side of
the record timeline to bring up the colour correction track select button. If you left click on this button it will disable
the colour correction that has been added to the selected clip, left clicking again will re-able the colour correction.
Audio levels can be adjusted using Clesh. Alread mentioned previously is the active timeline audio fade tool that will allow
you to add fade in and fade outs. To adjust the audio levels more accurately right click on the audio level icon on the right hand
side of the record timeline. The audio level track select button should appear. Left clicking will disable any audio levels that
have been changed, right clicking on this button will bring up the audio levels, the purple window that opens shows the audio levels as they are
in the record timeline.
There are two ways to adjust the audio levels, firstly by left clicking on a audio point and dragging will allow you to move the location of the
audio level point on the audio track and also change the audio level itself. Black represents quiet while white represents loud. Red shows where the audio
is being clipped and should maybe be bought down. To delete an audio level point, right clicking will delete it while right clicking on the audio level where there
is no point will add a new one. You can also adjust an entire line by left clicking between two audio level points and dragging up or down to adjust a section.
To publish a video, drag its icon from the "Files" window on to the Web (globe) or Mobile (phone) publishing icons. Web videos
can then be viewed from any web browser, and Mobile videos can be downloaded on to mobile phones.
Clesh web publishes your video and hosts it on the Internet. To publish a video, firstly, right click on the web publishing button and this
will bring up the publish settings in a seperate window. Here you can adjust the settings that include the pixel resolution (4x3 or 16x9),
the cropping of video and whether published videos should start playing when fully loaded or start paused.
Clesh mobile publishing currently works on Symbian v8.1 mobile phones. To export a video to the Clesh mobile player, left click and drag the
video from it's folder onto the icon. This like the web publishing will give you the list of files that have been published.
Once a file appears as 'Published' it is ready to be downloaded.
Clesh now boasts an integrated chat system that allows account users to chat
publicly between Clesh and FORscene account users, or privately between members of their own
account or with Clesh's technical support.
Public Chat
When clicking on the Chat icon within your Clesh account, it will bring up
the Chat window, on the right hand column are a list of Clesh and FORscene users on-line.
To participate with chat, click on the grey bar at the bottom, this will lighten when the cursor
is present, type your messasge and press enter.
Along the top of the window, it says 'Chat window: Public', stating that the window
text appearing in there is for public viewing.
By clicking on the 'Fetch Previous Messages' icon, you have the option of retrieving and veiwing
messages from the past. By selecting an option, the previous chat content will then appear
in the window.
We recommend a 3GHz PC with 512MB RAM, though Clesh will work on less powerful computers. Clesh also runs on modern Macs and Linux. We will reduce the minimum spec needed over time.
We recommend Java 1.4 or better as this supports good quality audio and nice icons. Clesh should still work with Java 1.1.
If you have any difficulties running Clesh in your web browser, please see our
Help with Java section.
Clesh requires 256MB of Java memory to give you optimal performance. These instructions explain how to configure this.
Windows using Sun Java 1.5
Open the Control Panel (in start menu) and double click on the Java icon. Click the Java tab. In the "Java Applet Runtime Settings" click on "view." Set the java runtime parameters to "-Xmx256M"
Click OK, then OK again.
Windows using Sun Java 1.4
Right click Java icon (on the bottom right of the Desktop) -> "Open Control Panel" -> "Advanced". Type in: "-Xmx256M" into the "Java Runtime Parameters" box, then push the "Apply" button.
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Mac System X using Sun Java 1.5
Open Macintosh HD -> "Applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Java" -> "Java Preferences". Then, on the (default) General tab, add into "Java Runtime Parameters": "-Xmx256M".
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Mac System X using Sun Java 1.4
Open Macintosh HD -> "Applications" -> "Utilities" -> "Java" -> "Java 1.4.2 Plugin Settings". Then, on the (default) General tab, add into "Java Runtime Parameters": "-Xmx256M".
These settings need to be added each time a new Java Version is installed. Ensure all versions of Java have the correct parameters. You then need to close all browsers and restart Clesh agian.
The middle button (lock) on the timeline title bar will toggle whether or not you can break sync on the selected tracks by trimming.
The left button on the timeline title bar creates a new edit point on the selected tracks.
Left clicking the undo button on the timeline title bar undoes the most recent edit.
Right clicking the undo button redoes the most recent undo. The tool tip says which actions will be performed.
