[Kdenlive-devel] a few issues

[booker]

Am Donnerstag 09 Januar 2003 04:36 nachmittags/abends schrieb Rolf Dubitzky:
> major
> =====
>
> - 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)


I would love to have the possibility to show the In AND the Out frame side by 
side in the trim-window, because this is a feature I've missed in every nle I 
had tested so far.

MoviePack (not sure if MovieDV too) has another similar tool.
When opened, two colored (red and blue I think) rhombuses appear in the 
timeline and user can drag them around.
Users are able to perform cut actions on this positions as well as syncing the 
two rhombuses to each other.
For example: when syncing red with blue the frame of the red rhomb will 
displaced to the position of the blue one ... this means when assuming the 
red one was placed at 2.0 and the blue at 3.0 the red one will be displaced 
to 3.0


greetings
Reinhard