[Kdenlive-devel] Reinhard will be happy...

[Jason Wood]

On Monday 18 Aug 2003 2:05 pm, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm back from vacation and checked out the shortcut dialog and you are
> right .... Reinhard "IS" very happy with it!! ;-)) Cool!! :-)
>
> Just a question ... is it planned to activate the different sections of
> Kdenlive (timeline, clip monitor, Projekt list, effect list, ...) via
> shortcuts? 

Probably - there is the whole issue of keyboard focus that needs to be sorted 
out first though - basically, if you click a window at the moment, that 
doesn't guarantee that the keypresses go to that window. The most obvious 
example of this is pressing the "delete" key on a clip selected in the 
project list. Intuitively, it should delete the clip from the project list, 
whilst what actually happens is that it deletes the selected clips in the 
timeline.

> So, in combination with a special mode (assemble), maybe this 
> could offer an fast way to create rough video cuts ...
>
> What I mean is:
> Choose a clip to be displayed in the clip monitor, set in and out points,
> hit a key (to define in shortcut dialog ;-) to add this area to the
> timeline behind the last active/inserted/assembled clip ... and so on. If
> this (assemble) mode is de-activated the selected area could be
> inserted/positioned into a new track on the right side of the timeslider

There would be no need to for an extra assemble mode - but what is missing and 
would be needed is the idea of a keyboard cursor in the timeline - I believe 
we talked about something similar a couple of months ago. Then, in the 
timeline you would be able to position via the keyboard where the next clip 
should go - with it automatically moving to the end of a clip that has just 
been added.

So it's possible, stick it on the wishlist on the sourceforge project page so 
I don't forget ;-)

> Also some functionallities to move the timeslider could be helpful in this
> concern, for example: - goto In/Out point
> - goto next/previous edge/edit

Yes, I agree.

> And last not least something like a "fast preview" could be helpful too:
> I mean, position the timeslider somewhere on the timeline, activate this
> "fast preview" to show some seconds before this point and some seconds
> after this point in time (pre-roll/post-roll) to control the change between
> two clips for example. Maybe in loop-mode too?? ;-)

I see what you mean.

Yes, more preview options are needed. I think the big one missing is "play 
from in point to outpoint and then stop/loop.

Cheers,
Jason

> greetings
> Reinhard
>
> kdenlive-devel at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 08.08.03 22:31:15:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It turned out that making use of KDE's keyboard shortcut configuration
> > was easier than I expected - as in, 6 lines of code. For an encore, I
> > also implemented configurable toolbars :-)
> >
> > Now committed to cvs
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Jason
> >
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