Hi, personally I'm not feeling 100% comfortable with the timeline layout.
Let me give an example of what I mean: When I actually start a new movie, using the default layout settings when creating a new project == 3 video and 2 audio tracks, I'm intended to place the first clip into the nearest possible track, which is track 0 in this case. Now I want to fade over to another scene, so I place a clip into the track below and apply a luma transition. Now PROBLEM #1 comes up, because the transition has wrong default direction, in this case, and I have to manually change the direction of the transition. Ok, going on doing some more edits..... Later in the process I need to add an PIP (Picture In Picture) to the first clip in track 0, which leads to PROBLEM #2, because actually it's not possible to add a new track above track 0. So, I've tried to add the PIP clip below of track 0 and tried the composite transition for this purpose, but I failed. But maybe I did something wrong here? However, back to PROBLEM #2: So, what when we finally can add new tracks to the timeline and I need to add a track above track 0, how is it named? Track -1 ? Or will the other track numbers increased by 1, so primary track 0 becomes track 1, and so on...? None of this seems to be a good solution to me....IMHO! So why not change the numbering of the A/V tracks to some of this layouts and separate the audio-only tracks? LAYOUT #1 Audio/Video tracks ... 3 2 1 0 ---------------------- (Separator to audio-only tracks) ... 3 2 1 0 LAYOUT #2 Audio/Video tracks ... 3 2 1 0 ---------------------- (Separator to audio-only tracks) 0 1 2 ... The advantage of the new A/V layout may be that it hopefully/maybe solve both problems, because user should normally put the first clip intentionally/automatically into A/V track 0 ;) Also this seems to be a very common layout of most video editing applications, so new users might feel very familiar. Ok, just my 2 cent... greetings reinhard ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Kdenlive-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
