[Kdenlive-devel] The Next Big Thing

[Rolf Dubitzky]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 06:32 pm, Jason Wood wrote:
> At the moment, it is. But the <getCapabilities/> command is asking for
> _everything_ that the renderer is capable of, not just effects. Later on,
> it might be extended to look like this :
[...snip..]
> Saying that, I don't think <requirements> is a good word - perhaps
> <capabilities> makes more sense.

perfect ;-) I was just about to propose that ;-)

> Ok, at some point I am expecting that we will have both video and audio
> effects seperately, but "av" would be correct if the effect manipulates
> both.

Err... ;-)))  it doesn't right now ... but .. it should ;-)

> I am unsure as to what values will be needed to support the various types
> of interpolation that we might have, but I hope you get the general idea of
> what I am talking about.

Yes, I think so, but I think we should stick with one type of interpolation 
for a given sequence of keyframes. Not because piave can't handle it, but 
because I think it gets confusing for the user. Well, we can discuss this 
again in a year, when we have multiple interpolation types. 

One thing we should keep in mind for the parameters are more complex types 
than "double", obvious would be "color", not so obvious would by "point" or 
"box". If we send just <par "x" "double"> <par "y" "double"> kden will not 
know how to visualize this.

Other than that I am fine with the proposal. Let's do it that way. But efore 
we get to te _next_ big thing, I suggest, that we revise what we have. How 
about we really try to use/test/ironout the features we have now and try to 
make an initial beta release (I concider the current status as alpha). 
Ususally I don't think every release must be rock hard, but since we'll 
probably anounce this release a various places it should really work, the 
first impression is the most important one.
I'll try to fix all known bugs in piave this weekend, and make a list of 
things in kdenlive (e.g. there should be some warning if /usr/local/bin/piave 
does not exist). I think the major things are in piave, there are just a few 
details in kdenlive.


Cheers,
Rolf

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