[Kdenlive-devel] Playout via firewire in 0.5 ?

[Dan Dennedy]

On Friday 29 June 2007 7:08:21 am Reinhard Amersberger wrote:
> > -----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 ;)

Last night I noticed kdenlive already has the feature to 
render-region-on-demand, but it is currently DV only, and that's fine for 
many people, but HDV is increasingly popular. pass-through in MLT is pretty 
high on the list, at least for DV, it should not be too hard.