Join projects? -- was -- Re: [Kdenlive-devel] AVI support

[qdvdauthor]

I agree with Jason,

there is a certain goal that you set yourself. And following the UNIX 
tradition, to build simple tools (if you can speak of simple in this 
regard) which is very flexible and powerfull and can be combined easily 
with other tools.

I think it is somewhat comparable with KOffice vs the gnome office 
suite. It is nice to that all application have the same look and feel 
and interopperate with each other. But each application is and can be 
used independand of each other. So is kdenlive and QDVDAuthor. You can 
use both seperately and have two powerfull tools (I hope) or you can 
cludge all into one GUI (style) only to have ALL functions possibly ever 
needed. Think about the 80% of MSOffice functionality which no normal 
person will ever touch.

But hey maybe we can bundle both apps and ask for 29,- pounds ;o)

Of course, where it makes sense to put functions i one or the other 
application we'll do so.

And just as Jason said I am more then willing to help any one out who 
wants to create a combined application based on the current available 
code. The more variety, the better IMHO.

Cheers ...

Varol Okan :)

Jason Wood wrote:

>On Wednesday 18 February 2004 05:03, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>just a comment ....
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>>it would be cool if you guys would join your projects to create a similar
>>functionallity like this tool I saw by a friend which seems to become (is)
>>very popular in windows world, because it helps the user to finish hisng 
>>project from capturing to the final movie (also burning a dvd). Please have
>>a look here:
>>http://site.magix.net/index.php?4625&version=deluxe
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>I have seen a number of similar applications, and they are indeed popular (or 
>becoming popular). The only real issue is that in my mind, Kdenlive is aiming 
>towards the Premier/Final Cut Pro/Avid end of video editing as opposed to the 
>Windows Movie Creator end of video editing. i.e., it is aiming for the 
>semi-professional/professional end of editing more than the home user - Hence 
>the (admittedly long-term) plans for project management, etc.
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>This is not because of the infrastructure, but because of a conscious decision 
>as to what the UI is aiming to achieve. It would be quite possible to write a 
>simpler "cut down" version of the Kdenlive interface in much less time than 
>it has taken to get what we have so far (because we could re-use a lot of the 
>code that is already written, and piave would not need to be touched in the 
>slightest).
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>I'll get onto it when I finish Kdenlive 1.0 ;-) but if anyone is interested in 
>trying in the meantime, let me know and we can organize the best way to do it 
>without duplicatig code.
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>Cheers,
>Jason
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