[Kdenlive-devel] Google Summer of Code?

[Jean-Michel Pouré]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 10:34 -0800, Dan Dennedy wrote:
> 
> Uh, I do not understand. You can render a video or image sequence from
> synfig and use that already. If you want to integrate the UI, it does
> not make much sense since it uses GTK+. It might make sense to create
> a MLT producer module that understands the synfig project and can
> integrate synfig as a lib for rendering. This is similar to the
> blender issue. These third party projects need to lend themselves more
> to integration at the library level. Look at the kdenlive/MLT
> architecture as an example. In the long run, I think that SVG-based
> animation, a forthcoming timeline UI for Inkscape, and some SVG
> animation renderer for MLT (webkit?) is possibly more interesting.

A synfig producer for MLT would make sence, you are right. SVG-based
animation rendering for MLT would be great, especially for titling.
There is no interest into duplicating user interfaces. Bye.