For someone who doesn't know single-track versus two-track/double-track, can someone please provide screenshots? I didn't understand the description...
2010/2/22 Titcomb, Andrew <[email protected]>: > Count this as another vote for the single-track transition design. It makes > for a cleaner UI. > > As well, when multiple video tracks are made available, we can use them for > organizational purposes: storing alternate versions of the edit in different > tracks. > > > > > > - andrewt > > ________________________________ > > From: Dries Desmet [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 7:14 AM > To: Artur Jaroschek > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [PiTiVi] Transition Thoughts > > > > As an editing professional lurking on this list, this 1 track/2 track > transition is one part of the design that interests me. My vote goes to > single track design for much the same reason that artur is pointing out > here. > Both avid and fcp have adopted it and the Premiere used to have 2 track > transitions but I believe has moved away from that. > On avid, it's even possible to collapse 2 layers in a single layer and ad a > transition to the newly formed layer. By double clicking the collapsed > piece, the orignal 2 get revealed. But this is probably a next stage thing. > > Regards, > > Dries Desmet. > > On 22 February 2010 15:23, Artur Jaroschek <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > are there any blueprints describing the workflow of transitions between > different video clips and also between audio clips? > > I would like to know if you plan to implement transitions using a > two-track-design (transistions work between track-A and track-B and the > other way round) like many projects do or using a sigle-track design > (like SONY Vegas). I'd like to note (working with sony vegas for many > years now, since version 4) that a single-track design is much more > convenient because: > > 1. it allows a clean work-flow, i.e. video-tracks are rendered (and > overlay each other) from top to bottom. A track-A-B-design breaks this > because it must allow to transit from track-B (bottom) to track-A > (top). > > 2. it allows a "build-in" default transition just by overlapping the > ending of clip-1 with the beginning of clip-2 (sound and video of > course) (see sony vegas). > > 3. it allows to preconfigure a default transitions overlapping time > which is applied when multiple clips are dragged from the import area > into the timeline. All dragged clips are then automatically overlapped > by this time. Great for dragging a bunch of photos into the timeline to > render them as a video with background music. (Of course one then needs > the default photo-length-time also in the preferences). > > I would realy like to see pitivi to support this mode. Sony Vegas has > this design since the beginning (at least version 4 which is 5 years > old) and has never changed anything about it - because its perfect. > > Artur > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Pitivi-pitivi mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pitivi-pitivi > > > -- > Urga > Wollestraat 5 > 8790 Waregem > www.urga.be > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Pitivi-pitivi mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pitivi-pitivi > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Pitivi-pitivi mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pitivi-pitivi
