Come on guys, are my proposals so bad that no one even bothers to respond to them?
On 15 January 2011 00:13, Damir Prebeg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
