[Kdenlive-devel] Playout via firewire in 0.5 ?

[Reinhard Amersberger]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org>
> Gesendet: 28.06.07 07:31:08
> An: kdenlive-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Betreff: Re: [Kdenlive-devel] Playout via firewire in 0.5 ?


> 
> 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.
> 

Thanks for the explanation!
I will try your suggestion in the meantime.

This sounds to be a lot of work to implement, so it seems that this will not make it in the upcoming release ;)

greetings
reinhard