Fredag 26 juni 2009 skrev Dan Dennedy: > > Thanks. I tend to agree, but only because my personal itch is towards > > stable software rather than featureladden software. People tend to > > belittle kino, but kino was very very solid and did what it did very > > well. Every time I start a video project in kdenlive, it seems I end up > > filing bugs about stability. (Although the situation has improved > > tremendously during the last year!) But, unfortunately, the people that > > actually do contribute (and not just talk like me) seems to have other > > foci. > > I believe most effort since the first 0.7 beta has been stability and > correctness of existing features. I am surprised to hear that is not > your perception. Or is there some misunderstanding or misperception?
You are probably right, and I am probably wrong. But I have yet to be able to create a 2-3 minute video that did not expose a problem I had trouble working around, and I guess some of that frustration escaped in my statement above. E.g. the previous week my kid needed my help in putting together a very minial video ( which is now at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YSLovw6Mvg - not big art, but they do enjoy themselves ), and I had many troubles with clips getting stuck on the timeline and even a few crashes. I should have been more balanced in the above statemens. Kdenlive is improving rapidly all the time, and I am hugely impressed with the time, effort and skills of the core developers (you know who you are :-). OTOH it is very frustrating to hear my kid exclaim, after 15 minutes of editing and all sorts of "this really should not happen" problems, that he thinks "its the worst video editing software ever". (Thats just kids for you, turns out he have only ever used kino and kdenlive :-). Obviously I should just put my money where my mouth is and debug this and fix it - or at the very least file a proper bug(!) - alas, since about before Christmas, my time has been even more limited than I like, so when I have 30 minutes to sit down and put a video together for my son, I really would prefer that basic editing had no issues at all, rather than I can now recode from the GUI.... > Of course, we all like to work on new features occasionally because "a > spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down." I understand that, and I believe I even wrote that I have no intention to try to change peoples goals. I think everybody is doing a great job - apart from me, obviously - I am doing far to little. Regards Mads P.S. I sent a small patch for MLT/swig configure yesterday, it appears it didn't make it to the list - should I mail you a copy on your personal address? -- Mads Bondo Dydensborg [email protected] http://www.madsdydensborg.dk/ The low quality of [MP3] files should prevent this format from threatening control of our intellectual property. Why would anyone listen to a sub-CD quality song when they can easily buy the CD at the local Tower Records? - RIAA head, Hillary Rosen, March 1997 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
