Does anyone know of any software platform that is good at adding annotations to microscopy movies? For example - what if you want to highlight some moving cells midway through your stack - following them with arrows or so? What tools/workarounds have people come up with for such things?
Many thanks!
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I do this in ImageJ/Fiji. You can add/manipulate an arrow on your image in Edit>Options>Arrow Tool until you get it where and when you want. Then âstampâ it on the image with Edit>Draw. I think thereâs a way to draw on all time frames, but I typically only want it for a subset and/or I want it to move in different frames so I navigate to the correct time frame(s) and draw that way.
Agreed, Fiji is of course a winner. There are a couple of different options for timestamp overlay too which makes it really useful. https://forum.image.sc/t/how-to-apply-time-stamp-as-an-overlay-in-fiji-imagej/3304
Another option that gets into the area of a video editor would be to use the VSE section of Blender https://www.blender.org/ This has a stepper learning curve, but you can so much more once into the details.
It can also be done in Photoshop. You can add an arrow in a new layer, get the animation view from the view menu, and then the position of the arrow layer can be âtweenedâ between different frames. I donât recall the exact specifics, but itâs very doable and looks nice. Youâll then need to export and render the animation to save the output.
If I find time, Iâll make a YouTube and post back here.
Just saw the video in this post, which looks like it might be useful if you can figure out what created itâŚ
I have no access to the supplemental videos at the moment, though.