Hi, I am a silent watcher of this newsgroup but for once I have two small things to say.
Storyboard ---------------- I was using another editor called PiTiVi recently and up to the point where I realised that it can't save yet I liked it. Some people see editing as taking a long film and splitting it up. For me it about organising lots of small clips into a big one and PiTiVi was fairly good for that. I would like tools that make it easy to see all my clips (first frames) organise them into some rough groups and sequences - a kind of album a bit like google picasa but with ordering. If that was all that happened then that would be a very nice application on it's own and I think it's separate from editing except that it has to deal with things that are virtual (clips 'cut' from a big video file) as well as full video files. Edit in low resolution ------------------------------- I would like to be able to edit in very low resolutions and then render high resolutions. I have done this by hand by converting all my clips to low res, producing an edit and then doing it again manually for high res. I think that this is horrible but it's the only way to get reasonable performance while I'm trying things out and deciding how to tell my story. Use separate, asynchronous processes. (sorry a third thing) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Lots of video operations can result in a long wait if the input file is very large. I think that any operation that can take time should be done in the background and be cancellable. I also think that video processing tasks should be run in a separate process from the gui so that they can't cause it to crash if they crash themselves. Anyhow, I've said it - just my 2p. Cheers, Tim -- You could help some brave and decent people to have access to uncensored news by making a donation at: http://www.thezimbabwean.co.uk/
