Hi, I agree with you that the workflow here is very bad and confusing. We had a discussion about that a few months ago, nothing happened: http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2010-May/027723.html
This is imho a high priority, before we can do a stable 2.5 release. Best regards, Thomas Am 23.01.2011 10:50, schrieb Damir Prebeg: > 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 _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
