On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:26:17 +0200, Nicolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What about your beginings in the Linux world? Did you install Linux and
then said it needs to be rewritten because it's too complicated?
You'd be surprised how many people did just that before the distros
became as slick as they are now. By the way: I have gone in the
opposite direction, from fanboy to a tired old fart who keeps asking
"can't we get something better soon?". I am not alone. So your
argument does not hold.
Rather than complaining about the way cinelerra is,what about asking
questions here?
If Cinelerra is to get many more users, having people come here
for hand-holding will not scale! It is in our own interest that
the need for hand-holding goes down.
That would help you to start with cinelerra, and then
you'd probably understand why it's made that way... I'm sure an
important part of people complaining about the cinelerra interfacedid
not spent more than 1 hour reading the doc...
There are so many things that could just work without reading the docs
first. Not all of them are trivial, but they are fixable. Cinelerra's
real sore points as I see it are getting content in and out; loading,
rendering and format settings.
I would like to keep _all_ the features, but the user should be nudged
in the direction that is most likely to work. Can we try and work out
a list of assumptions that will be true for the majority, and suggest
_how_ the GUI should promote them?
Some examples:
* Promoting colour formats with alpha, since some effects depend on them
* Poking the user if the project resolution does not match the media's
resolution. ("that video file has PAL resolution. Use the PAL preset?")
If there is much nagging, we shouldn't use modal dialogs for it!
* Grouping output formats into recommended and experimental. (just put
the recommended ones at the top of the list; subtle but effective)
One suggestion to take care of the resolution and colour format:
Have a "pick a template" dialog right after the splash screen.
I personally resent office suites which force me through that step,
but it could become a power feature, with the option to save a custom
template to be used automatically.
--
Herman Robak
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