Hi Andrew, Sounds interesting. This kind of development (start working on a project and add missing features) is my favourite one :)
Depending on what you'll need it actually won't be kdenlive only to improve but also MLT. Looking forward to your project, and good luck! Simon On 11.06.2010 09:32, Andrew Manson wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I was chatting on the IRC channel Wednesday night with Alberto and got a > chance to a discuss proposal I have for the Kdenlive team with him. All > and all Alberto seemed like he liked the idea but urged me to bring the > discussion up on the mailing list, so that's why I'm here! > > I would call myself a KDE developer (even though I have not been > developing for a while now) and have worked quite extensively on the > Marble Desktop Globe project. Lately I have been working on a new > project, apart from development, that will need some help/collaboration > from the Kdenlive team and hopefully will end up with a mutually > beneficial relationship between Kdenlive and TalkOSS. > > The "big idea" is actually quite simple but has not yet been done quite > right by anyone else. Let me explain.... > > We have many great Open Source Conferences around the world that are > informative, useful to the community and sometimes quite entertaining. A > lot of effort has been put into the organisation of the kind of events > and at some of them (sometimes only ones with bigger budgets) there has > been some effort put into recording the conferences. I have been to two > of the larger ones that have had these higher budget recordings but > there has been something lacking from these recordings and that has > resulted in some pretty poor quality videos being released sometimes up > to 4 months later than the conference. An example of such a video is > currently up on my website www.talkoss.com <http://www.talkoss.com>. > > My vision is to have professional people record these conferences, > because that professional edge will be noticed instantaneously in the > quality of the videos. Also I would like to have one place on the > Internet where everyone can come together and watch these videos without > having to go to disparate corners of the Internet to piece together an > experience of a conference. There needs to be no barrier to entry in > either the quality or the availability of the videos and I hope to be > the man to give that to the world, with a bit of help. > > This is where you guys come in. If I am planning to provide the world > with professional quality videos I need a professional quality editing > suite to edit them. I could invest in a professional suite like Adobe > Final Cut pro but this is a no-go for 2 reasons. Firstly I will be > starting this venture on a donations only basis to hopefully just break > even and spending all of the generous donations on licencing fees > instead of putting it to good work would seem criminal. Secondly, and > this is much more important in my opinion, I don't believe that it is > inherently *right* to be in the business of promoting open source and > not be using open source tools for the entire process. This probably > shows up my feelings about open source quite strongly but I a am a > fanatic an I will always strive for what I believe in, and never > compromise on the important things. > > Having made the decision to use open source tools I will inevitably be > compromising on the stability and feature set of the editing suite for > what I believe in, but I only see this as a short term problem. One of > the things that I mentioned to Alberto on Wednesday was that I really > like the concept of the Blender Foundation's "Project Peach" which most > of you will know as Big Buck Bunny. They set out to produce a > professional quality short animated film with blender and at any > stumbling block where they needed a particular feature or the stability > of the core was not up to scratch they had a team of developers to > improve the blender software so that they could get the job done. This > was a very successful project and ended up in some really exciting > improvements being made to Blender and I don't see any reason why we > cannot recreate the same effect. The "big project" this time will be > TalkOSS. > > This is enough for my introductory email. I will need to start some > separate discussions on what I feel we need to do, organisationally, to > get this idea off the ground but those should be discussion items and > should be separate from this email. And also, just to be clear, I'm not > just coming around here asking for you guys to develop things for me so > that I can get TalkOSS off the ground. I am instead offering my services > as a developer and a heavy user/tester but my focus will be more so > using the tool instead of developing new and exciting features that I > won't need, in very much the same way as the Big Buck Bunny crew did. > > I'm sorry for the really long email but this is actually my first public > announcement of the TalkOSS project and I wanted it to be complete. > Please let me know what you all think of the idea and if you think we > could work together on this one. > > Cheers, > Chris Manson (a.k.a Andrew, Chris is my middle name ;) > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. 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