[Kdenlive-devel] Daily bugs

[Zsolt Sandor]

Hello!

I found some bugs again. I think, that the Virtual clip feature should
be changed a bit.

The first question is: what is what the user expects? In other
software, a virtual clip is associated with a clip. A virtual clip is
simply a part of a clip, and has no connection with the timeline.

What the user want is to be able to cut out parts of his long video
clip, and put the small parts with effects to the timeline.

Why virtual? Because there is no need for recompression and does not
need to store the videos on the hard disk.

My proposal is:

The virtual clips should be connected to clips, and not to the
timeline. You should be able to select the part in the clip monitor,
and create a virtual clip from this part.

What do you think about it?

Regards:

Zsolti

ps. The bugs I found:

Virtual clip bug #1

Create new color clip. Add to the timeline. Select a part of it.
Create a new virtual clip from it.
Remove the original color clip from the timeline. A red line can be
seen on the top of the timeline.

Add the virtual clip to the timeline. Select clip monitor. You can
play the virtual clip. Select
Timeline monitor. You can not see anything.

Remove the virtual clip. Add the original color clip. Remove the
original color clip.
Add the virtual clip. You can see: "Invalid".

Virtual clip bug #2

Create new virtual clip. File->New project, add project name, press
ok,  you can see some part of virtual clip of the timeline.

Virtual clip bug #3

Create 2 color clips with different colors. Add the first one to the
timeline, create a virtual clip
from it's part. Add colorclip 2 to the timeline. where the first was
cut.  (picture 2)
drag the virtual clip to the timeline. It seems be ... interesting...