Video Highlight Reel Length mod - AT&T HTC One (M7)

So first let me say, yes I'm a first time poster, but long time User of XDA, so hey!
I've gotta say, as a video editor myself, My favourite feature of The One are the Highlight Reels. And in 4.3 which I just upgraded to, it's made even better with the option to select your own music (which works rather well!).
My only issue with this is the length. I often find myself wishing for even 1 minute over the 30-33 second limit. Think about it....A lot of actual songs have 20-25 second intro's alone, so by the time it get's into the first verse you want on the reel, it's already fading out..
I'm actually curious if there's any files that can be edited to adjust the video length with custom tracks. I know the fact that the template tracks are a set length already might be the issue here though......
Anyone have any insight?

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Maybe in future updates HTC will incorporate this. Already they have added more modes to the highlight reel in 4.2.2
the only other way is to click on the photos you want a highlight reel and make two of them idk

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Hi,
first off I just want to say this site is awesome. Exactly what a XDA owner dreams of. Now to the questions.
1. I have 2 SX56's . My problems is with one of the screens. When I have them out next to eachother and look at the screens one looks fine but the other has a very noticable purple tint to it. If I didnt have 2 XDA's then I PROBABLY wouldn't have noticed, but I notice it. It looks like a color setting needs to be changed or something, but theres no settings for adjusting color or backlight.
2. Is there any way to use a .mp3 file instead of a .wav file for a ringtone. I have that "NoteM" that captures my voice directly to .mp3 (Awesome program, I can record decent quality audio for a lot longer than the built in voice recorder) anyway, I just think it would be a good idea. Thanks
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[...] the screens [...] one looks fine but the other has a very noticable purple tint to it. [...]
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I was once told production color differences between batches of LCD screens can be quite large, and they probably have lower uniformity standards for mobile devices than for, say, notebook computers.
Probably not much you can do, especially since the screen only has 12 bits per pixel, leaving not much marging for correcting such things in software.
Does anyone know whether Pocket PC has display color management to begin with?
Is there any way to use a .mp3 file instead of a .wav file for a ringtone. [...]
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We'd like to see an application that allows actions to be launched when the phone rings. Actions for different people and categories in the contacts, as well as a default ring action.
I did see an application listed that does something similar to what you ask.
It organises a contact with a picture and ring.
Now as to what extent I don't know.
The pictures showed the usual "bubble" with a small picture inside.
I remember something similar on my on siemens c35i...
Can't remember where I saw the article but I could try and find it again,,,

[Q] Custom Boot Animations

I am sorry if this is a noobish question or there is an easy answer, but I was looking at customizing my phone a bit and I saw the part about making your own splash screens (which is awesome), but I was wondering how to make custom boot animations - what tools I would need, type of files, etc. I thought there would have been a thread somewhere in the Themes & Apps section but I could not find it, and doing Google search leads me to just people posting their own custom animations.
Is there a thread someone can direct me to that has this sort of information? Any help would be appreciated - thanks!
Bump - does anybody know? Also, the boot noise for the BAMF Sense 3.0 RC3 does not work, another reason why I want a new one, ha.
Have you opened one of the bootanimation.zips? What file types are in there?
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A PNG image and a series of JPG images that make the animation, but I was wondering if there was a program that took an animation to make it into a series of JPGs, or if there were certain requirements/specifics in terms of how to make a boot animation.
+1 on this whole post, I attemted last night to make my first animation, and if it is just the tedious task of re-saving the same picture over and over again with just minor changes on each one to create the animation, than ok, so be it.
It just seems that with some of the very cool animations there are, for example the boot animation to the new BAMF 3.0 has moving clouds in the background, that seems like it would be pretty hard to do manually moving the clouds a little bit for each frame.
It would seem pretty obvious to anyone that extracted the bootanimation.zip how the animation works, just more speaking on the creation of each of those frames.
Would be nice if someone with experience with this chimed on and offered some help.
Thank's in advance.
Does seem pretty tedious manually moving and saving them as you said but I'm guessing that's what they do.
Probably wouldn't take that long if you had everything on layers in photoshop and you could just move layers themselves.
Alternatively, if you already have a video, I'm sure there's a way to convert that to a series of png's as well.
Ok I'm on the phone so giving a tutorial is out of the question. All you really need is patience and a goal.
First download Gimp for editing. Forget PhotoShop all together unless your rich.
Download the following scripts or plugins.
Background overlay
Save all layers
GAP (video editor for Gimp)
Google the hell out of what you want. Chances are someone allready has done what you want.
Read, read, read (time to not be lazy, what ever your doing you can find some direction at least with some good internet research)
Google "editing Android boot animations".
Create images (JPG or PNG) in the same aspect ratio of 480x800.
JPG images will be significantly smaller in file size
PNG images will have a much better quality
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Use GAP to convert an existing video to images frame for frame.
Very useful if you find a good video.
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I actually do have Photoshop, do you know how I can use that instead of Gimp/GAP? Also, I am sort of confused at how you take an existing video and turn it into something you can use as a boot animation... I found this link (http://www.machackpc.com/how-to-changecreate-your-boot-animation-for-droid/) but I am sort of confused by it and wish I could find someplace with simpler instructions.
I just use others. I used the Call of Android animation and the mw2 style on my incredible, and I just edited the files to use the same ones on my thunderbolt.
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Ok, did a little research last night and today and tried a bunch of different programs for converting animations to a series of .png files and finally settled on one. I tried some free one's some trials and this is probably the best one I found so far.
Xilisoft Ultimate video converter. I was able to load an .avi, (or many other supported formats.) Program made it very easy using the "clip" feature to select out a section of the video I wanted, then converted that "clip" to a series of .png files. I was able to easily select the length of times between the extracted images "less time will obviously give you a smoother animation but require more pictures", also I could manually input the size of the outputted files (to match our phone's resolution).
I have only played with it a little bit but so far seems to be pretty good.
Also I have one other program I have been playing with to help with this. Jasc animation studio, which works with paint shop pro, has a pretty cool feature, which lets you copy into the clipboard all of your extracted image .png's, then "paste" them into animation studio as a new animation, you can then watch them from there, or load any indivual frame into paint shop pro. You can also save the clips as an animated gif. Very easy to make changes to individual frames and see the result's without having to flash to your phone.
Hope this helps.
Wow! Awesome, thanks, this is perfect and in great detail - what about sound? If the video has sound, will I try hope it gets synced with the series of .png images? And what else would I need for the bootanimation.zip folder? Will I need a .txt like when I change the splash screens?

[Q] Anyone know of an app like Samsung's Mini Diary?

I've been looking around for an app like Samsung's Mini Diary.
The key things I'm looking for are:
1) ability to take multiple pictures and select multiple pictures from the gallery to be grouped into one event like "at the baseball game" or something like that. Being able to select one as the "cover" picture for the event would be nice, too
2) Having the option to maybe put a little caption with each individual picture too would be nice, but just having the title for the event would also be fine.
I've tried a few "photo journal" type things on the market, and a big flaw I've found with all of them is that, say you have a bunch of pics from one event and you want to add them to a journal entry, you have to add them one at a time, rather than being able to batch select a few pics from the gallery. kind of a pain.
Some of the available apps aren't very nice looking, either.
Right now, the best solution I've sound is called "million moments". Its got a really nice interface and lets you tag multiple pictures at once, but tags in the app are colour coated, and theres only about ten colours to choose from. Thus, you can only have ten tags, so you can't effectively use tags as titles for events.

[Q] Budding developer with a fleshed-out idea for a musical Android app

Hi everyone, I'm a longtime lurker on this forum, but this is the first second thread I've opened. I've just begun studying at the university level, majoring in mechatronics systems engineering and minoring in computing science. I've done a lot of research in the area of music theory, and I discovered peculiar arrangement of musical notes which I call a "pitch-correct harmonic note table" (Google it for a higher resolution than the attached image; I'm too new to post links).
The concept has been explored in the past (see Wikipedia's harmonic note table layout) and the interesting thing about it is that it visually reveals how notes and chords are related to each other. My version, unlike every other one I've found, preserves the proper pitch spelling. A C minor chord, for example, is properly notated as C-Eb-G, not C-D#-G.
The table by itself can prove useful for those learning theory and composition, but right now it's just a picture. Here's where Android application development comes in. I hope to turn this picture into an interactive chord-generating device. It'd be like a guitar, except anyone can pick it up and create music with it, as the chords are easy to play and the relationships are obvious.
The application's general flow would go something like this: First, select a key signature (which positions the purple ribbon), time signature and tempo. Hold down the root of the desired chord. Slide your finger up to select its major chord or down to select its minor chord, and release. Press the root again to play the chord or press a different note (like the seventh) to play an extended chord. The chord will loop until you perform that last step again for a different chord (selecting another chord by touching and sliding does not interrupt the looping).
However, here's where my inexperience with development hinders my progress with this application. I've only taken one programming course and it was in C. I'm taking the Java course now but we're only going as far as the command line. I'm therefore at a loss as to where to begin. I have the SDK and Eclipse all set up and I have some basic ideas for how I would go about coding the notes, like using the "fifths" and "augmented" axes to create a rectangular grid instead of trying to use the hexagonal grid that the table is currently in. I'm probably going to end up creating a playChord() method with parameters for root, quality, extension, and bass. I'm not sure whether to use Canvas or OpenGL; I'm not sure whether to use JetPlayer or MediaPlayer, .mid's or .mp3's or .ogg's, or generate the chords on the fly; I'm not even sure how I'm going to voice the chords (though my Casio keyboard might be able to help with that).
Most of those issues I can worry about later though. For now I'm going to focus on creating something like a soundboard except more refined. This is why I looked to XDA - to give me an initial push in the right direction so I can avoid coding myself into a corner and having to start over. If you can give me any tips or advice, I'll greatly appreciate it. =)
Bump? =)

[Q] Sense 5 video highlight

So, what exactly is this new video highlight feature we got with sense 5, and how does it work? I'm running stock all the way, and I see a highlight folder in my gallery. However, all the folders have the same option to run a slide show, but that's it... I'm sure that's not the "cool" video highlight feature that I've read about everywhere. Am I missing something here?
so I guess I'm not the only one who doesn't fully get this thing then? strange that there's no help topic about it..
I'm guessing that's what it is... In fact I'd like a way to hide / delete / prevent the video highlights for some events where they make no sense, like when I photograph the whiteboard at the end of a meeting....
Still looking for a way to do that
Ps: I would speculate it looks better on a real One, as then the video highlights can be based on Zoe videos, instead of being based on still photos (and perhaps regular videos)

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