On čet, 2006-01-19 at 22:57 +0100, Herman Robak wrote:
> > How should cinelerra know that it should change
> > the size of the tracks also.
> 
>   Cinelerra is a program.  It does not "know" anything.  The developers,
> on the other hand, should know a bit about the user's motivation:
> 
> * What does the user want when he changes the project setting from NTSC
> resolution (the hardcoded default) to PAL resolution?
> 
> - He wants as much as possible to appear in a suitable way for PAL
> resolution.  For the _PAL_ tracks that he has already loaded, it makes
> sense to show them in _PAL_ resolution, that is in the project canvas
> size.  No black bars.  No need to fiddle with right-click menus on
> each and every track afterwards.
>   That is what most users likely want in that scenario.  Can you come
> up with common counter-examples?


Yeah, track size is more or less independant of the project size, there
are many uses where you want track size completely different than
project size - especially when doing compositing.

Therefore you can not know what the user wants.

bye
andraž


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