[Kdenlive-devel] Introduction

[Mads Bondo Dydensborg]

Onsdag 03 juni 2009 skrev Oceanwatcher:
> Hi,
>
> I am new on the list and would like to introduce myself.

Nice. We should all do that, really. They do that on the bugzilla mailing 
list, and it works very well.

So, an ultrashort introduction about me: I have only used two video editing 
programs in my life, kino and kdenlive. I have tried to contribute to both, 
with varying succes. I know way to little about video/digital signal 
processing in general. For kdenlive I have written a builder wizard, which 
have seen some use, and I have tried to streamline the issue reporting (bug 
handling) to ease the burden on the core developers.

I should be able to actually code on Kdenlive - in my proffessional life I 
work as a C++ developer - but lack of time have often stopped me short. I have 
made some minor modifications to e.g. the titler though.

> Unfortunately, I can not offer any help with programming myself. But if I
> can help any other way, let me know. 

The good news is, that you can!

There is a page here:
http://kdenlive.org/contribution-manual
and some discussion here:
http://kdenlive.org/forum/how-can-we-community-help-kdenlive

Given your extensive knowledge about video editing, perhaps you would like to 
contribute some documentation? Of course it would require you to actually 
learn kdenlive, but given the posts you have made in the forums, you should 
have no hard time doing that.

There are other tasks as well. 

> I will ask the programmers I know if
> they can help here, but I need to know a little bit more about what is
> required. Do you have a page that say something about the programming
> language etc. that a dev need to know?

I don't think we do, actually. An ultra short list:
Languages: C++ and C
Frameworks: Qt and KDE
Mlt, and ffmpeg, is used to interact with video, so eventually one should 
learn Mlt at least.

Time is probably also quite valuable; even though the docs for KDE and Qt are 
very good, the code for Kdenlive is largely undocumented - at least compared 
to what I personally is used to. I would like to change this.

Your second language would not by any chance be Norsk? Then we could use 
translations: 
http://kdenlive.org/contribution-manual/how-translate-kdenlive

Regards

Mads

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