[Kdenlive-devel] Playout via firewire in 0.5 ?

[Dan Dennedy]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 02:29, Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
> apropos 0.5 - is there a minimal chance to have rudimentary functionality
> for playout via firewire ? For now it would be sufficient if playout
> (region between in and out point) would start at actual camcorders position
> (crash record). Because for fail-safe and cheap archiving at high quallity
> I still prefer mini-DV tapes!

MLT is not DV-specific. Also, it currently has no support for "pass-through," 
which means to not render unaffected video. This will not be possible until 
pass-through is implemented in MLT. Then, kdenlive will have to have some 
features for background-rendering and/or render-region-on-demand along with a 
way to specify the render target (e.g. DV). For now, for archival purposes 
(and I agree on the value of DVC tape), you will have to render to DV and 
then use something like Kino to put it back to tape.