[Kdenlive-devel] Question : Cutter functionality

[Christian Berger]

Am Sonntag, 28. Juli 2002 19:46 schrieben Sie:
> On Sunday 28 Jul 2002 3:59 pm, Christian Berger wrote:
> > Well this early version will be able to simply cut video, no fades no
> > anything. It'll be able to cut at any frame, but not between frames.
> > Audio currently is impossible.
>
> When you say that audio is impossible, do you mean that seperate audio
> channels are impossible (e.g. adding music in the background), or that
> the resulting mpeg will have no sound at all?

Well at the moment, I don't have any sound. But sound is a completely 
different chapter at the moment. I'm planning on focusing on sound after 
using lavpipe

> In other words, if you feed it several movies which already have sound,
> will the clips in the edit retain their original sound?

Nope, they would be silent.

> > But maybe we should define a number of abilities and put them into a
> > cutter ability file:
> > In my case this might be:
> > cutting accuracy 1
> > or something
>
> I am unsure as to exactly what format the cutter ability file should
> take, mostly because it's hard to figure out what abilities various
> cutters will have. I'll have a think about it, and see if I can come up
> with a first-draft specification, and then we can argue about it :-)

Good :) Stuff to argue about :)


> Hmm, dunno, I think we might have to leave that till Kdenlive 3, but we
> should be able to add the option to doctor the video in case the actors
> get their lines wrong, and automatic selection between various takes ;-)

Hmm, sounds good. In your project file make sure you're able to save 
"metadata". That way you could also take notes in it. Maybe also special 
user-definable flags. So you could make machine readable notes. For 
example imagine you have to pay per minute of finished film for some 
special location. The cutter could then mark all those scenes with a 
special flag and then find out the exact duration or something.

> > Servus
> >   Casandro
>
> I've broken up the kdenlive homepage so that it's easier to browse - it
> was getting a bit crowded. Let me know if I've got anything wrong.

Looks really good, I've now also seen the gui :)

One idea I have for the GUI would be "word-editor" like assignment of 
effects and fades. So you mark a part of the timeline, then assign a list 
of effects. Basically a window or dropdown menue with all the effects. 
Maybe effects which are used by all the footage you marked are really 
marked and those, which are only used in a few clips are "half-marked".
Simmilar to how you set fonts in many programms.

> Cheers,
> Jason

Servus
  Casandro

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