VIAN - Visual Film Annotation (Beta)

Welcome to the repo of VIAN, software package for annotating, analysing and visualizing color in film.

VIAN for Film Scholars

This page hosts the source code of VIAN and is therefore directed towards developers who are interested in VIAN. If you are interested in the desktop application, please visit this page to download VIAN for users.

VIAN for Developers

If you are interested in the source code or want to contribute to VIAN, you are correct here.

Prerequisites

• Download and install Anaconda
• Download and install VLC 64-bit

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Note

You can also install VIAN with a another python 3 distribution than anaconda, however
this is not tested yet, so no guarantees. 

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Setting up the development environment

1. Clone this repository on your computer

2. Download the models from OneDrive and copy it into the VIAN/data directory

3. cd to the root of the VIAN directory

   cd path/to/my/VIAN/

4. Install the corresponding environment:

OSX: conda env create -f install/env/env_osx_dl.yml

Windows: conda env create -f install/env/env_win64_dl.yml

After the installation is complete, you can start VIAN by activating the new environment and run main.py

OSX:

conda activate vian-osx
python main.py

Windows:

conda activate vian-win
python main.py