[Kdenlive-devel] a few issues

[Rolf Dubitzky]

Hi all,

here is another list with minor things I noticed. They are in no particular 
order, some are just little bugs, some should be discussed. (I'll put it on 
the web todo-list, so we can keep track what needs to bo done)

minor
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- kdenlive starts up with a single frame timeline. Why? Is it not possible to 
have an empty timeline?

- the slider marker points always _between_ frames and kdenlive requests the 
frame _after_ the marker to be displayed, but it is possible to move the 
slider beyond the last frame.

- Even better would be to make the slider cursor not a line, but a bar with 
the width of a frame. (and just xor'ing whats beneeth) In MovieDV the marker 
is just two lines connected by a bar on the top (one before and one after the 
current frame).

- open recent, does still not work for me

- the 'selection' and 'clip' inputlines. I think it looks rather strange to 
  have them, but don't do anything. Either get rid of them, or display 
  something, maybe duration/in/oupoint of the current clip. If they stay, and 
  are in priciple readonly, they should _really_ be readonly.

- 'play' button. They play button should stay pushed down as long as the video 
  is playing, be released when it stopped.

- I think we need a 'View' menu, where you can checkbox which windows you want 
  to see, because if I delete one of the DockWidgets, it's gone, and I don't 
  get it back. Actually I don't think we should allow to delete these windows.
  It doesn't make any sense to delete them.

- "New Window" will not work with piave. So either disable it when using 
  piave, or delete it.

- "Export timeline" ... I would rather call it "render project" or "render 
  timeline"  ... with "export" I think of 'saving in a foreign format', e.g.   
  SMIL.  Also there could be a "render selection" 


major
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- monitor window; we talked about that a bit already.
  Problems: 
    A) I think the cutting tool is not very easy to use right now. Ok, I can 
       cut, but I don't see where I cut. Cutting must be precise to the frame.
    B) The two rulers/sliders are a little bit redundant right now. They both 
       show the complete timeline from A to Z.
    C) trimming a clip can only be done by resizing the box in the timeline. 
       As with the cutting, I have to do it blindly, I can't see what I do.

  Solution:
    - get rid of the cutting tool altogether.
    - when a clip is selected in the timeline, this clip is displayed in the 
      monitorwindow. This clip only and _completely. E.g. if I have a two 
      minute clip, where I set inpoint to 0.30 and outpoint to 1.30, I have a 
      1.00 wide box in the timeline. When I select this clip, the ruler in the 
      monitorwindow should be 2.00 wide and show the _complete_ clip 
      (including the stuff before and after the in/outpoint. The in and 
      outpoint should be indicated in the monitor ruler. The slider of the 
      monitor ruler should be movable across the _complete_ clip. There should 
      be three buttons: "cut here", "set inpoint here", "set outpoint here".
      I guess it's clear what the buttons are supposed to do: clicking on 
      "set outpoint here" should set a new outpoint and move the out-indicator 
      apropriately. 
      "cut here" should do the following: example: one clip in the timeline:
        A  "foo.dv"  duration 2.00   inpoint 0.30 outpoint 1.30
      now if I select this clip and move the slider to 1.10 and hit cut here,
      I should get two clips in the timeline: 
        A  "foo.dv"  duration 2.00   inpoint 0.30 outpoint 1.10
        B  "foo.dv"  duration 2.00   inpoint 1.10 outpoint 1.30
      One of them (probably the first) should be displayed in the monitor 
      window. (It would just look like the outpoint had moved there)
  

-- 
Cheers,
Rolf

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 Rolf Dubitzky  
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