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12 <P>The Nexuiz demo recorder offers you
13 templates that you can use to create new jobs (which are based on a
14 template) more quickly and efficiently. Imagine these "templates"
15 didn't exist ... you would always have to specify the complete path
16 to the engine, the video file, the demo file, and the final video
17 file – each single time when creating a job, from scratch. This
18 would take a long time and would be inefficient.</P>
19 <P>Instead you are encouraged to create
20 templates. Templates can be created either from scratch (click on the
21 <B>+ Create</B> button next to the template table) or from an
22 existing job (select the job, then click on the button <B>Create from
24 <P>The latter will just add a new entry
25 in the templates table, without prompting you for any further
26 information. The template's name and summary will be "Generated
27 from job", and you can change this by double-clicking this
28 generated template, renaming it and giving it a meaningful summary,
29 then click save. You will notice that all other values have been
30 taken from the job and don't need to be filled out by you anymore.</P>
31 <P>Here you can see the template dialog
32 when creating a new template:</P>
33 <P><img src="images/create_template.gif" /></P>
34 <P>The dialog looks very much alike the
35 "create job" dialog presented to you in the <a href="basic_tutorial.html#jobs_create">Basic
36 tutorial</a>. There are a few differences, however:</P>
38 <LI><P>The dialog shows you a <B>template
39 name</B> and <B>description</B></P>
40 <LI><P>Instead of specifying a <B>demo
41 file</B> you are now specifying a <B>demo directory</B></P>
42 <LI><P>Instead of specifying a <B>video
43 destination file</B>, you now just specify the <B>directory</B></P>
45 don't specify a <B>start time</B> or <B>end time</B> for templates,
46 because these 2 input parameters are specific for each job and don't
47 make sense to be saved for a template</P>
49 <P>Once you have a template you can
50 create new jobs easily by selecting a template in the templates table
51 and then click on the <B>Create from template</B> button in the jobs
54 <H2>What could templates also be good
57 <LI><P>Using different configs for
58 recording (you can set a config to be used either in the “engine
59 parameters” field, e.g. <B>+exec myconfig.cfg</B>, or you
60 could put the <B>exec myconfig.cfg</B> into the “exec before”
62 <LI><P>Recording with different Nexuiz
63 engines to compare the visual quality</P>
64 <LI><P>Inspire me … what do you
65 use templates for? Post it to the forum!</P>