On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Mads Bondo Dydensborg <mads at dydensborg.dk> wrote: > Torsdag 05 marts 2009 skrev Dan Dennedy: >> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:13 AM, Jean-Michel Pour? <jm at poure.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 11:17 +0100, Mads Bondo Dydensborg wrote: >> >> write a synfig based title/animation clip creator/plugin >> > >> > That would be great. >> >> Uh, I do not understand. You can render a video or image sequence from >> synfig and use that already. If you want to integrate the UI, it does >> not make much sense since it uses GTK+. > > I definitively would not want to integrate the synfig-studio GUI. However, it
The hard part of supporting animation is a whole package that works together - GUI, documented serialization format, and rendering engine. > is my understanding that synfig on the library level is possibly to use, e.g. > its render engine. So, my idea was to present a simplified UI that could be > used to create animated titles, with simple blobs in, and let synfig do the OK, but what is "simple blob in?" > actual rendering... I had already started looking into a rendering engine for SVG with script-based rendering. One idea was to couple the Mozilla SpiderMonkey with an SVG renderer like librsvg. The tricky thing there would be to represent state and have random frame access. I was wondering if webkit would be possible for this as well. However, really, SVG 1.2 that includes the SMIL declarative animation module is more interesting and powerful, but I am not aware of much progress on this in the FOSS realm. Moreover, the lack of design tools is another hurdle. I know some in the Inkscape team have been thinking about this. http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/Animation-(Timeline) > I'll have to look more into it, the synfig homepage have changed somewhat > since last time I looked at it (a while ago). I am not opposed to using synfig as an engine. I just wanted to relay how I have been thinking about this. It might be nice to have a single module that can support simple stuff in the kdenlive UI as well as fancier stuff designed in the best 2D animation tool we have at the moment - synfig. OTOH, one ought to also consider the Qt Animation Framework: http://www.qtsoftware.com/products/appdev/add-on-products/catalog/4/Utilities/qtanimationframework/ -- +-DRD-+
