Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-18 Thread Keith Johnson
If you want a side-by-side view and don't mind a lot of black padding: melt -profile hdv_720_25p color:black -track noise: -track ~/Movies/bbb_youtube_h264_499kbit.mp4 -transition composite a_track=0 b_track=1 geometry="0/0:50%x100%" fill=1 valign=middle -transition composite a_

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-18 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > On a more general note, it would be great if one of the higher-level edit > packages (kdenlive or shotcut) could export an .XML MLT file for a > transition from the timeline. We would not do that for usability reasons. The UIs are already

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-18 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > I've tested capturing two HDV streams at the same time with dvgrab and > it's fine - left cameras running for 20 hours and no glitches. Only thing > I'm stuck on is creating a composite video file with 1/2 resolution > side-by-side view of t

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-18 Thread Keith Johnson
hnson [mailto:ke...@xentrik.tv] Cc: mlt-devel [mailto:mlt-devel@lists.sourceforge.net] Sent: Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:05:32 +0000 Subject: Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please! On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: Keith, I am not quite sure how to answer this. I d

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-10 Thread Keith Johnson
Unfortunately, this is actually one of the few formats that I have found to be hit-or-miss for seeking within MLT. It is a rather passe format now, and it is very difficult to make format-specific improvements let alone seek and sync improvements as that requires heavy regression testing. On the

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-09 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 1:48 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > > Keith, I am not quite sure how to answer this. I do not really > understand what you need and are asking for. It does not sound like > there are many MLT applications that are close to what you need. With > Shotcut or melt, you can record (

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-09 Thread Keith Johnson
Keith, I am not quite sure how to answer this. I do not really understand what you need and are asking for. It does not sound like there are many MLT applications that are close to what you need. With Shotcut or melt, you can record (capture and encode) from HDMI, SDI, and V4L. If you use F

Re: [Mlt-devel] Help for Newbie, please!

2014-09-08 Thread Dan Dennedy
On Sun, Sep 7, 2014 at 12:33 AM, Keith Johnson wrote: > Hi Everybody - > > I'm a complete newbie to MLT, having arrived here in my quest for a solution > to a new project I'm involved in. We have the requirement to shoot a series > of speakers at a conference using two cameras (MS and wide, probab