[Kdenlive-devel] Big Kdenlive update

[jb]

Hello everyone.

Have been very silent these last weeks, but I really needed a pause. I just 
commited some big changes in Kdenlive svn.
Most important changes:

Kdenlive now uses the MLT functions to manipulate the playlist, which means:
 - All playlist operations (move, resize, cut, ...) are about 100% faster
 - You can add effects, change parameters, add clips, etc while playing the 
timeline for more fun
 - On the other side, as it is quite a big change, there might be some 
regressions in simple operations, this is still a bit experimental. Sometimes 
the timeline can become broken (especially transitions). If this happens, you 
can use the menu entry: View->Sync Timeline, that should repair the thing.

Effects are now created from XML files from the effects subdirectory. 
It means that when a new effect is added to MLT, a simple XML file describing 
its parameters should be all that is needed to get the effect in Kdenlive

CMake is now required to compile Kdenlive

There are probably a few things that are not working correctly with these 
changes (I still have an MLT patch to apply to fix a timeline imprecision), 
but it is worth the trouble if you consider the incredible speed gain.

Have fun & regards

jb