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On 03/29/2009 01:46 PM, cDima wrote:
I want to make sure that I understand this proposed GSoC task
correctly: “Using Silverlight 2.0 build the UI for video editing
software”.
Below I wrote my understanding of the deliverable, my questions, bio,
and risks. Please tell me if I got the idea right, thanks!
The deliverable will be a user-friendly Silverlight application for
in-browser video editing. The app will be somewhat like
* the GSoC 2005 Diva Video Editor
http://mono-project.com/Summer2005#Diva,
* the Top Banana MIX2007
http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideo.aspx?video=125 applications.
The well polished GUI should resemble specialized software like
Apple’s iMovie and Adobe’s After Effects. The GUI will consist of:
* preview area for the video,
* timeline editor with drag-and-drop editing, skimming, trimming,
cut & paste, slicing.
* resource list (media library).
* Tools to apply effects and transitions to the clips.
The sample application should work within web browsers supporting
Silverlight 2.0, be written in clean, maintainable code.
Questions:
1. The Diva Video Editor was an incredible GUI program. We want a
similar Silverlight/Moonlight alternative?
Yes, the goal is to provide the solution in-browser in Silverlight and
Moonlight.
1. I am most comfortable working in C# in Visual Studio 2008, may I
implement this application in Visual Studio 2008 and Expression
Blend Suite?
This is fine.
About me:
My name is Dmitri Sadakov. I have a master’s degree in computer
science, going on to PhD in CS, both from Saint Petersburg Polytechnic
University, Russia. I’ve been a computer engineer for around 8 years,
6 of it devoted to C#, ASP.Net, and winforms. The most complicated
coding project I have been involved in is NYSE backend website
(http://www.nyse.com/) and the Eluma
(http://blog.go2web20.net/2008/05/eluma-as-desktop-client-for-friendfeed.html).
My open source experience includes coding my masters degree
application as open source samba crawler & search interface,
Lan-Crawler (http://sourceforge.net/projects/lan-crawler/). The last 2
years I have been working in ASP.Net, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, and
objective-c, I am most comfortable working with C#.
Creating an in-browser video editing application in Silverlight should
be worth spending time on this summer. I am eager to increase
Silverlight skills, and help the open source community. Also, lately I
have been working a lot with Adobe After Effects for video editing and
creating motion graphics.
Risks:
* I will need to research to understand the mechanics of grabbing
images from video streams.
* Same for the mechanics of applying transitions and effects
* Moonlight 2.0 Beta will be released mid May 2009
http://www.mono-project.com/MoonlightRoadmap , there is a big
chance of this video editor to not work on that beta.
* The project might prove to be too hard for my experience with
silverlight, then again it might not.
Thanks,
Dmitri Sadakov
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