Hi!
IS PHOTO ALBUM SOFTWARE not full featured video editing suite!
I 100% agree that it is not useful to add all functions one may happen to want to handle media into Shotwell - even though it is more then a photo album software.
In my understanding, Shotwell is some kind of a content (library) management tool. Content used to be pictures, and covers video now, too. Management means here that one can maintain content in a library. This requires metadata handling, sort & find, im- and export.
I would be very careful to mix this with content authoring. There are some cases, such as the feature to rotate images transfered from a digital camera, that are very useful even though they mess up the separation between maintaining a library and editing its content. The reason is that it would add a huge overhead to a small taks doing this externally.
Rotate by 90 degree is very, very simple for an image, and people may have hundreds of pictures that need to be rotated, so here it is useability that backs such a feature. Rotate a video by 90 degree is something that will be applied to one video (I hope noone is taking movies tilted all the time...), and requires quite a lot of implementation development. It is very little overhead to do this in an external application, that can be used to do all preprocessing such as transcoding, adding a title, setting a resolution and such BEFORE importing it into the library.
There is still quite a lot of stuff that can be done to improve Shotwell's performance as a media library management tool (e.g. file format support, exchange with other libraries, ...). I would hope that development focuses on these, instead on making Shotwell an application trying to do "something with media".
Cheers, Lars.
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