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Cross posting the following in case others had not noticed. This is
from the Development section a the Kdenlive forum.<br>
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Hello,<br>
<br>
I want to pass video projects back and forth between myself (I use
kdenlive) and people<br>
who use other NLEs. My most important need is interoperability
between kdenlive and<br>
Vegas Pro. I also desire to interoperate with other popular NLEs
(this would be Adobe<br>
Premiere Pro, then Final Cut Pro, then Avid, according to some
survey<br>
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/nle-ma">http://www.learningdslrvideo.com/nle-ma</a>
... breakdown/<br>
)<br>
<br>
I believe that the way to do this is through AAF (Advanced Authoring
Format). We should be<br>
able to convert between AAF files and kdenlive XML files. I can
imagine this being included<br>
in kdenlive or taking the form of a standalone program, that does
two-way conversion<br>
between kdenlive XMLs and AAFs.<br>
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I am ready to offer $1000. However, this is not yet a firm offer,
because the problem<br>
to solve is not defined precisely:<br>
<br>
- Which effects will be taken into account? The absolute minimum
would be to convert<br>
a project that nas multiple tracks with cuts, but the more effects
will be correctly converted<br>
between kdenlive and other NLEs, the better (audio volume, various
audio corrections with<br>
keyframes, fade to/from black, color correction, alpha blended
titles, and more)<br>
<br>
- On which NLEs will this be tested? Is the developer going to test
it fully, or should I participate?<br>
<br>
- How do we convert pathnames to clips? kdenlive runs on LInux, the
other NLEs run on Windows<br>
or Mac, so we need to design a conversion scheme.<br>
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At this point, I am asking for two things:<br>
<br>
- Comments: does this proposal make sense to you?<br>
<br>
- Offers. A good offer would look like this: "I want the bounty, I
want to do this thing within two<br>
months, it will be tested with the following NLEs ..., will work
correctly with the following effects ...."<br>
Or like this: "I will do it with no effects (you can only have cuts
of clips), and will<br>
test it on Vegas Pro only, for this I want $300 instead of the full
bounty"<br>
<br>
Any thoughts?<br>
<a href="mailto:mm@skubi.net">mm@skubi.net</a><br>
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