If you are using the GUI (graphical user interface) for the Clipstream® Video 3 you can employ options such as width, height, bitrate, etc. in the interface itself

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You can add them as command switches in Extra Encoder Switches field in the Advanced Options Window of the GUI.

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You can add them as command switches in a Command Line Encode. If you prefer this option, skip here.

If you are using the GUI, you can add switches that are not accessible in the regular fields of the Encoder interface by entering them into a field found in the Advanced Options Window.

1. In the main window, click the Advanced button.
   
   
   
   The Advanced Options Window appears.
   
2. Locate the Extra Encoder Options field.
   
   
3. Click inside the field and type:
   
   
   -l300 -p5000,image1.jpg,6000,image2.jpg
   
   Ex.
   

The - character tells the Encoder that the next character will be a switch. The l character indentifies the switch as the Crop time variable that crops milliseconds from the output clip. The p character indentifies the switch as the Picture variable that can export one or a series of frames from the clip as .jpgs.

If you prefer encoding using the DOS command line method simply add in the switches with a - and switch code in the command line as in the example below:

1. Type out an Encoder command line like so:
   
   Ex.
   
   VCSEncoder.exe swIIItrailer.mov
2. Before the source file name, type out a switch like this:
   
   Ex.
   
   VCSEncoder.exe -c1000,180000 swIIItrailer.mov
   
   The - character tells the Encoder that the next character will be a switch. The c character indentifies the switch as the Crop time variable.
   
3. Press the Enter key to execute the command line.
   
   When you encode now the output .vcs file will have one second cropped from the front of the video and will last two minutes (180 seconds).

Add as many switches as you want by separating each switch with a space.

Ex.