Cine mode automatically cycles through a series of images in an image frame. The cine mode setting is available in any image frame that contains more than one image. You can apply the cine mode setting to one or more of the image frames simultaneously and to linked image frames.
The cine mode controls are available from the Cine menu and the Cine toolbar. The cine mode controls include the following:
Menu Item |
Function |
| Play/Stop cine | Start and stop cine playback |
| Play next cine | Stop cine in the current image frame and start it in the next image frame. |
| Next/Preceding frame | Advance one frame forward or backward |
| Cycle/Reverse mode | When reaching the end of the image stack, start from the beginning (cycle) or reverse the direction (reverse). |
| Faster/Slower speed | Control the playback speed |
| Link | Link series for cine playback |
| Toolbar | Display the cine toolbar |
To activate cine mode, select the image frame using the left mouse button, and select the Play option from the Cine menu or toolbar. The images display at a rate defined by the speed control. To activate cine mode in another window, repeat the process on the other image frame or select Play Next Cine on the Cine menu or toolbar.
If the frame is linked to one or more image frames, all of them play back the images at the same display rate. To stop the cine mode playback, select the image frame, and then the Stop option from the Cine menu or toolbar.
The Next/Previous functions in the Cine menu are equivalent to manually scrolling the image stack.
When the cine playback reaches the end of the image stack, the cycle/reverse mode setting defines how cine continues. In Cycle mode, cine playback cycles back to the beginning and repeats the same sequence. In Reverse mode, cine playback reverses the direction and displays the images in the reverse order until it reaches the beginning, at which time it reverses direction again, and continues. By default, cycle mode is selected.
You can set the relative speed of the playback by adjusting the playback speed gauge in the Cine toolbar, or selecting Faster and Slower from the Cine menu. The playback speed is not synchronized to any clock, so there is no quantitative value to the speed setting. Use this feature simply to increase or decrease the rate at which images in the stack appear in the frame.