[Kdenlive-devel] Bin columns

[John T. Mertz]

Hi alberto,

Yes, 'Bin View' refers to the project assets list (I.e. Video files,
titles, etc). Traditionally the project 'bin' and all subfolders
within it are called 'bins'.

In other apps such as Final Cut Pro, Avid, and Adobe, there is usually
a lot of clip metadata available to display as columns in the bin
view/project list or whatever you want to call it. Each column
displays metadata such as IN, OUT, Start timecode, end timecode,
format, duration, etc. The user can turn display of these columns
on/off (as kdenlive can do) but also the user can rearrange the
columns at will by clicking and dragging the column header to move it
thereby changing the column order.

I tried dolphin as you suggested but was only able to turn columns
on/off, but I could not reorder them.

For example, the default display might have these columns:
Clip Name | IN | OUT | Start | End | Duration | Description

But I might rearrange it to display in this order:
Clip Name | Description | Duration | Start | End | IN | OUT

Then, usually the user can save a custom Bin View so that depending on
what they are working on, they can load different bin views which
would reload the column display and order that was saved (although a
single, customizable bin view would be an excellent start).

Does this make more sense?

Obviously a lot of this metadata is not available (yet) in kdl, but it
would be nice to have more of the metadata that IS available as
separate columns rather than stuffed into a single column.  For
example, currently the clip name, duration, and usage count of a clip
is all shown in the Clip column. This should be spread out to
different columns.

Thanks,
-JTM

On 3/30/10, Alberto Villa <avilla at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 March 2010 22:13:14 John T. Mertz wrote:
>> I'm trying to implement some new columns for the bin view. One thing I
>> noticed in adding new columns is that columns in the QTableWidget
>> cannot be rearranged. This is fairly important if/when kdenlive starts
>> to (hopefully) support the many metadata fields used in most NLEs. I
>> like to set up custom bin views when editing, beyond just turning
>> columns on/off.
>
> what do you mean with "bin view"? the list of files and resources loaded
> into
> the project?
>
>> Does anyone know if its possible to make columns rearrangeable with
>> Qt? Looking at the Qt documentation it doesn't seem like it but I
>> thought I'd ask since someone with more experience might know better.
>
> if my assumption above is correct, that list should be made with a...
> treeview? i'm not sure at the moment... anyway, the same used in dolphin
> detailed view, to explain myself. i think it's treeview
>
> if you confirm i've understood what you mean, i'll go deeper to give a
> better
> answer ;)
>
> if i've not understood... well, that's exactly me!
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