On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:53:26 +0100, Martin Ahnelöv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Since still images don't have a native "duration", it is perfectly
OK to extend their duration by dragging the end of the vertical bar
you see on the timeline. You may have to zoom the timeline view
until the bar gets a few pixels wide. The view controls are at
the bottom of the timeline window.
Variations of the question above come up from time to time.
Are there some hints that the GUI could give new users to make
this more discoverable? (apart from a "wizard" telling "You just
loaded a single image to the timeline." *sneer*)
You mean something like that the arrow transform itself to an arrow
(pointing to the right if you are dragging the end of the clip, etc)
when it hovers over a drag-able area?
With arrow I don't mean the pointer, but like... the dubble-arrow that
could be seen in various gtk-apps when you resize columns and
separators.
I'm not sure if I follow. Cinelerra's pointer _does_ change
appearance to a double-arrow when you hover above a clip boundary.
Did you mean something else?
There are at least two challenges:
1) Discovering where you should hover the mouse.
2) Finding single images and dragging their start/end
when they are just two pixels wide on the timeline.
Cinelerra could do "helpful" things that would aid some users
but disorient others, like changing the zoom level whenever a
small item is dropped on the timeline. Any better suggestions?
--
Herman Robak
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