Absolutely fantastic! I have been wishing for this feature for so long,
but due to his long wish list I did not dare to say.
This feature is the basis for several timelines. I miss the timeline
feature in Cinelerra for a long time. If you agree, I would like to make
some suggestions on this topic for January. This EDL feature can be
extended relatively easily in my opinion.
Sam
On 25.12.19 05:59, Phyllis Smith wrote:
With the latest checkin, you can now edit EDL that is included with
your project as Clips, Nested Clips, or Xml. For example, if you have
a nested clip that originally had several plugins added to it before
it was nested, you can edit those plugin parameter values. Previously
to make any changes to these EDL clips/nested clips, you had to remake
the whole clip from scratch. This is done via "Open EDL" and button
click as described below by the ****.
In addition a couple of modifications related to this are noticeable
to include the following:
- in the Clip folder, when you Nest a clip, the wording which was
"Nest" is now "Nest to Media"
- in the Clip folder, when you actually perform "Nest to Media", the
nested clip is only displayed in the Media folder
for example:
1) load some test media, mode replace project
2) highlight a selection and press create clip. add notes and press
ok. clip is created
3) in resources window, open the clip folder. clip1 is present
4) select clip1 and right mouse the item. select menu item Open EDL
5) timeline changes to just the clip content.
6) add a visible effect, like burning tv and press the [1] in the main
menu bar.
7) timeline is restored to original media.
8) drag the clip from the resources folder to the timeline. The
effect is visible.
**** - in the Clip folder, there is a new option to "Open EDL" for the
highlighted clip. When you choose this option, the clip will be
brought up on the timeline. *VERY IMPORTANT to note*, the previous
timeline EDL is "pushed onto a stack" (this is programmer talk) so it
is remembered and to get back to that you have to "pop the stack"
(more programmer talk) by clicking on the button in the upper right
hand corner of the timeline above where the Proxy switch button would
be. Usually this button will read 1 if you choose "Open EDL" and then
0 when back to your original timeline. You can go several levels deep
so instead of 1, it could be 2, 3, ... but I got to tell you that you
can get lost if you overdo it. Once the clip is open on the timeline,
you can edit it however you want.
- in the Media folder, once you have nested a clip, the Nested clip
will be located here
- in the Media folder, the option to unnest the clip is now called
"EDL to clip" which results in the nested clip being reverted to a
clip and back into the clip folder with only a name of "Clip #". The
nested clip is also still in the Media folder.
- in the Media folder, you now have the new option to "Open EDL" as
described for clips above. But in this case when you Open EDL and
edit the changes, those changes will take affect on any and all
occurrences of that nested clip on the timeline.
I will make a demo later. There are Debian 9/10 static tars that
contain this and other mods in the Download / Documentation / File
Storage at cinelerra-gg.org <http://cinelerra-gg.org>. Would be happy
to make static tars for any other usual distro/version if you would
like to test early.
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