On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 8:24 PM, Oceanwatcher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 03 June 2009 21:46:57 Dan Dennedy wrote: > > BTW - for every transition other than plain cuts you use, you should be able > to come up with a good reason why the story you are telling actually need this > effect instead of a plain cut :-)
good advice >> We would not need to remove transitions to improve the UI. Our code is >> not that rigid and tightly coupled. > > I was not talking about removing effects, I was hinting at prioritizing > resources. To get the editing workflow correct and get a good dissolve > function > in there is more important than adding more effects stuff. Of course, > improving > workflow is probably not as fun as making something fancy, so if fun is the > only motivation, I guess effects win? Whatever action adds the transition - dissolve by default - adds a GUI element that can be selected whether to remove it, resize it, or whatever, and that action can open the transition panel we have today, which permits selection of a different transition. I think we are in agreement, and I certainly agree this _should_ take priority over addition of new transitions including the Blender-based gvfx. However, I am mainly the MLT developer. The addition of transitions happens in MLT, which is on a parallel development track with kdenlive. I only occasionally help directly with kdenlive - easier tasks that are personal itches. I am not inclined to do major work on the editing workflow, and I could end up doing the Blender integration into MLT before these kdenlive changes - not likely tho :-) >> BTW, I had asked if "Slide" is a good name for what is currently named >> "Wipe." According to some feature pages of some other editors I found >> online, it seems so. > > I tried to play a little with the effect and yes, seems slide can be used. BUT > - I added the effect and scrolled through it just to see how it worked. And > this might be where the logic breaks for me. > > I had the first videoclip on track 0. Then the next videoclip on track 1, > overlapping a little. I rightclicked and added a "wipe". Got a box that I > clicked on. When scrolling through, the effect is exactly backward. The first > frame of the effect is the second videoclip and the first videoclip comes > sliding in. When it is finishes, it cuts to the second clip (of course). So > the > whole thing should be reversed. Or, as I said, maybe my logic here does not > fit > Kdenlive. I experienced this as well. Some transitions have a reverse option, but not this. I had to rearrange the clips on the tracks to get what I wanted :-/. I will address this when I do the relabeling. -- +-DRD-+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ OpenSolaris 2009.06 is a cutting edge operating system for enterprises looking to deploy the next generation of Solaris that includes the latest innovations from Sun and the OpenSource community. Download a copy and enjoy capabilities such as Networking, Storage and Virtualization. Go to: http://p.sf.net/sfu/opensolaris-get _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
