General

General
Preferences
Status window
Preview

General use

The main window is always open. In the various tabs you can make all settings for a project then watch progress in the output tab.
Settings for a project are saved as defaults for the next project.
When valid settings are changed the preview is recalculated after 3 seconds. You can prevent this by keeping "Apply" unchecked until you are finished making settings.
If you want to process only part of a movie you need to create a reference movie first (using QT Player Pro for example).

You can make settings first or open the input movie first.
More than one cleaning type can be carried out in one run (as determined by the 'Apply' checkboxes). The order of the operations cannot be changed yet.
Only one project can be carried out at the same time.
Applescripting and batch processing not available yet.

Preferences

Preferences are intended as application wide settings (expected to be the same for all projects) though you can change them at will.
If you like the sound (and all other non-video tracks) can be copied over.
Anamorphic 1080: 1080i MPEG2 movies may be anamorphic 1080x1440 (non-square pixels). If the movie is opened as 1080x1920 scaling artifacts would occur.

You are less likely to need any of the color options:
For those of you who like me have yuv2 movies (Apple Component video) there is a setting to preserve the brightness and contrast of these movies when going to '2vuy'. This only applies in case these movies really have video range and gamma 2.2 encoding.
If your YUV input is really dirty (oversaturated color) you may want to check its validity (this is rarely needed). Colors will be corrected using saturation reduction.
NTSC safe colors: if the video is for broadcasting the composite analog video amplitude may need to be limited. Colors will be reduced using saturation reduction. Maximum IRE can be set in the range 100-120.
Always convert to gamma 2.2: since 2.2 is the video standard you may want to always convert to this value if the input has a different gamma.
Preserve highlights: a different gamma transform is applied (if needed) which preserves values outside the video range as much as possible. The resulting colors are slightly different.

In the file preference pane you can choose the way the default output folder is determined.

Status window

The status window displays the state of the current project. This can be "ready" (no project), "calculating automatic settings", "analyzing" the resulting noise levels or "processing".
In addition there are a few special states like "opening movie", "connecting to server", etc.

Preview

In the preview window you can compare "before" and "after" and view the noise that gets removed.
The preview shows the raw media (unscaled, unclipped). You can step in the movie, time-scroll it and play it (no real-time noise preview).
The preview window can be scaled and the subview selection rectangle can be dragged.
The settings for the noise display are used for the noise movie too (if you want one).
In some cases (like remove logo) you can select part of the "before" image by dragging the mouse.
All preview keyboard shortcuts can be looked up in a window that can be opened when the preview is up.
Shortcuts require that the corresponding tab is selected in the main window (for example, input tab when cropping) and the command is enabled (when cropping "Remove black edges" must be checked).