-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > Herman Robak wrote: | Hmmm, does Imovie call these "thumbnails"? > The conventional terminology | for it is a "proxy". Easy proxy > editing has been on the wishlist for quite | some time, since HD > video with formats like HDV is too slow without it.
Andrew Hunter schrieb: > He is not referring to proxies (as I understand it), but rather for > working with clips as discrete, untrimable units, the way the > "Thumbnail" view in iMovie works. I discussed this in irc channel and > posted a section to the GUIBrainstorm page in the wiki. Hi all, what is described here is often referred to as "storyboard mode". This feature is very common in video editors adressing rather beginners. It is indeed a valuable feature, because it helps keeping focussed to the narrative structure, similar as the act of drawing a storyboard does. In a full-blown pro application, usually you can get almost the same effect by organizing your clips in the media/clip bins, of course without the convenience of being able to play/render the sequence immediately. Boiled down to the essence, it's sort of working with an outline of your cut. Personally, I think for lumiera we should further investigate Chrisian's proposal to create sort of an abbreviated view of the normal timeline. Btw, as we are at it: there is one very important issue with all those storyboard views; the problem is also pertinent when working with the clips in the media/clip bins: As it means, reducing a whole take to a single frame (mentally), which is the frame used to represent it as a still immage, it is of uttermost importance /which/ frame you select to "capture" the whole idea of the take. Indeed, going through your material and identifying this "pivot frame" of each take can bring you half the way towards a first working cut. Of course, you can't do this selection automatically, and there is no "best" choice. Probably two different editors will select different "pivot frames" of the same take (and consequently end up with different cut versions). I think we should include a feature to select this pivot frame for any clip, causing this pivot frame to be used as thumbnail to represent the clip in the clip bins and in the timeline. In any case, such a thumbnail representation would be vastly superiour to taking just the first frame (which is usually rather misleading) or to printing a strip of frames, (which is just too much / unneccessary information in many cases). Hermann V. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFINL71ZbZrB6HelLIRAvXlAKDZo3KksylBIWk4jW0tAOO7A2ixoQCg1KhF mGCFY7cVqVxy9OOH3rSOvnE= =cPt2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list [email protected] https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
