[Kdenlive-devel] effects

[Jason Wood]

On Tuesday 09 Sep 2003 8:59 pm, Rolf Dubitzky wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> concerning support for effects, we need to modify VEML a bit.
> if you check out the current HEAD of piave, you'll find a file
>
>   examples/textmaster.veml
>
> This syntax can actually be parsed and rendered by the version in the
> 03-DEVEL branch.
> It was meant to test the text generator and also as an example for how the
> syntax could look like. It is only a video effect (no audio) and only an
> effect with one input, but it is probably straight forward to guess what
> the whole thing would look like.

I'll take a look on the way to work tommorrow, so expect an answer on what I 
think tommorrow evening ;-)

> I am much in favor of supporting SMIL to pave the road for the kino guys,
> but we will still need VEML for a while.

Agreed.

> One point why I am in favor of doing this is, that this will help to
> seperate the _renderer_ from the _player_ parts of piave. This is a good
> thing since I eventually would like to drop as many of the player stuff as
> possible. There are enough good players out there.

I am not so sure... The main advantage with piave being renderer and player is 
that I assume there is nothing (other than hard drive and cpu speed ;-) ) 
from 'playing' an unrendered video, or at least, seeking through it on the 
timeline. Now, playing is not something that I expect - but seeking about an 
unrendered video is something that I think is very useful.

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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