I find organization and interaction of render, file format and encoding presets under render options quite inconsistent and illogical. So here are my proposals:
A) First smaller annoyances: Default render preset that we get when Blender is first started is not even listed under Render presets dropdown. Also, there's no option for aspect ratio locking while changing image dimensions. Is there any special reason why actual frame rate is calculated from framerate and framerate base and not simply one float value for framerate (eg. FPS: 23.976 instead of FPS:24 and Base:1.001)? And there's a bug: Select any Render preset, and then reload startup file (Ctrl+N). All values except selected Render preset name in that dropdown box will be reloaded. I propose that there should be "Default" entry by default, implementation of aspect ratio lock and one simple floating point framerate. B) It gets interesting with Output movie presets: I'm not an expert but I don't recall that I have seen or heard for true h.264, Xvid, Aci codec and Avi jpeg file types. Don't jump on me, I know that there are files with .264 or .xvid extensions but they are just "aliases" for .avi or .mp4 containers. I propose that Output dropdown list (regarding video file types) should contain only real file format extensions like mpg, avi, mkv, ogg, flv etc. and, of course, frame server option. C) And under the Encoding panel we have real fun: Here we have Presets dropdown that always says Presets and you never now witch preset is active. Not only that, here we have presets that are changing not only Encoding settings but they are also changing dimensions of movie. And there is File format dropdown although we (should) have already selected file format under Output panel. I propose that dropdown box Preset actually shows witch preset is active and if user changes some option active preset should automatically change to "Custom" (that should apply to all preset dropdowns in Blender). One Encoding preset shouldn't change any other setting than those under Encoding panel, and file format should be already selected in Output panel so there's no sense to have that dropdown duplicated. I wanted to try to reorganize that by my self in python, but Output items are hard-coded in Blender source so I can only hope that someone of devs understands what I'm talking about. Cheers, Damir _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
