Cinelerra would not read MTS files of a friends camera correctly and I
felt like learning, so I gave shotcut a try. It does not work like
cinelerra at all; but it works a little like kino NLE, which I remember
warmly. Maybe I should have watched the tutorials first, some things are
not obvious, some conceptual background is required to get up to speed.
I will keep my copy of Shotcut and very likely update in the future, it
seems to be good for projects that I do. The most I miss a title
generator: That took me quite some time -- a title, that fades out.
1) I did not want to create an extra playlist item to determine length:
I saw that jquery was in the html created from the template, so I tried
to use that, but it seems to be unavailable in the qmelt batch renderer
(qrc:// resources). As a workaround I put another copy of jquery.js in
the project folder and included from the html source.
2) The load event does not fire, when the clip starts to play, or when
the frame is displayed, where the filter starts -- in my case, that is
the same. As a workaround, I load the file from the menu and start the
render without a playback.
3) The clock in the jquery script (see below) uses render time, not
playback time. As a workaround I used two-plus times the times (maybe I
should drop the sharpener filter...):
window.addEventListener("load", function() {
$("#intro").delay(20000).fadeOut(15000);
}, false);
Also, during the experiment, I tried to make the html another provider
in its own track, which showed an additional problem: the "make
transparent" tick in the properties widget would not stick, it would
fall back to off on revisiting the pane. Seems like a bug in the gui. I
put "transparent" into the .mlt file and made the track "compose", so it
would show right on first play.
I also tried to get the fade by adding a filter to that track, but there
is only "fade to black" and not "fade to transparent" in the filter
list. That way, the timing would be playback time, not render time, I guess.
Now thats my report for now.
Kind regards
--
peter
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