[Kdenlive-devel] Notes for renderer window design

[GeBu]

Yes I agree that concetrate to design is important in the begining.
But I will use KDEnlive different way now. I will use it only for video 
editing and export to DV. For encoding I will use mencoder because I 
know him more.
So, I think more important to concentrate to usable efects, transitions etc.
Jirka (GeBu

Juan M napsal(a):
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm following suggestion to give ideas to improve the renderer window 
> design and have a few on how it should be. I want to share this ideas 
> with all of you to start a discussion and reach (hopefully !!) a 
> consensus on how the window will look like.
>  
> Here you have:
>  
> - First of all, I think it's a great idea to use ffmpeg as renderer 
> engine. For me is the best !
>  
> - I do not think we need to let the user choose between PAL & NTSC 
> when rendering. This information is already in the project settings, 
> so take it from there. If the user is working in PAL and decides to 
> change to NTSC for rendering (or viceversa), then only he needs to do 
> is changing project settings.
>  
> - For the same reason, I do not think we need to take care about fps.
>  
> - The first decission for the user is where & what he wants to render. 
> He needs to select the location (dir) to place the file and the 
> filename (no need for an extension. Should be automatically added). 
> Also he needs to decide if want to render video+audio, only video or 
> only audio. And if he wants to render the full timeline or just a part 
> (based on selection or marks)
>  
> - This info should be in the main window. Render option (Video+audio, 
> video & audio) should be tabs that will include their own parameters.
>  
> - Once in the selected tab, the user should have the choice to select 
> a "template". In ffmpeg terms this should be a target type. We should 
> define the most usual (DV, DVD, SVCD, MPEG, ...) and if the user 
> select any of them, the rest of parameters will be defaulted.
>  
> - If the user do not want to select a template or want to change 
> something, we'll have also the most usual options in the screen. For 
> me, they are:
>  
> - Video: Codec to be used, size, aspect, number of pass, video 
> bitrate, min & max quantization (for VBR fans. Maybe also min & max 
> bitrate ?)
> - Audio: Codec to be used, frequency, audio bitrate and no. channels
>  
> - For the rest of options, we may have an "Advanced options"  part, 
> but I do not think it's necessary if we follow next point.
>  
> - For advanced users, I think the best option is to have an additional 
> tab where they can select the preferred encoder (mencoder, ffmpeg, 
> transcode, ...) (is it possible to work with different encoders in 
> kdenlive ?) and then pass the rest of options they want as a parameter 
> list for this encoder.
>  
> That's all for now. What do you think about ?
>  
> Regards.
> Juan