[Kdenlive-devel] XML representation for effects.

[Jason Wood]

On Monday 08 March 2004 10:11, Dan Dennedy wrote:

> Now, as we evaluate Kino integration, we wonder if it makes sense to
> maintain a document state and implementation separate from the state of
> the service network and its serialisation syntax? 

My answer to this question has always been "yes", because I consider the job 
of the project-side format to be different from the job of the backend format. 
However, I have never considered SMIL to be that project management 
format :-)

Kdenlive also uses it's own format for project output that is essentially an 
xml serialisation of it's internal state, however there is a framework 
in place for loading/saving other project formats - at the moment you can 
import (but no export yet) kino projects, and export a scenelist to a file. I 
would like to add the ability to support smil, cinelerra, etc. to that list 
in the future.

I *do* think that supporting SMIL is a very good idea purely for 
interoperability. 

Cheers,
Jason

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Jason Wood
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