[Kdenlive-devel] Light Graffiti

[Simon A. Eugster]

Okay :)

Does this answer your questions?
http://kdenlive.org/users/granjow/writing-light-graffiti-effect
I also slightly changed the descriptions, should be clearer now.

If I missed a question, please tell me, I'll be sleeping in a few minutes.

Simon

On 04.01.2011 15:53, Gabriel Gazzán wrote:
> Don't worry Simon, I prefer to translate as soon as a string is
> available, I don't care much if it goes through a change later. My
> objective is to always maintain trunk as close to 100% translated as
> possible.
>
> Tonight I already commited a first translation that I "think" it's not
> that bad. But just to make sure:
>
> My doubts arise because I don't fully understand the concept behind the
> effect.
> I know there is a "background image" involved, and I think the effect
> uses highlights in it to draw the graffiti?, with several properties to
> control how the effect behaves.
>
> This string is the most obscure:
> /"Strength of the (calculated) background image. Setting it to 100
> paints the light mask directly over the background, without any person
> in the image if the video starts with a «clean» background image."/
> in it this are the concepts that make me think I don't fully understand
> what the effect does:
> "/the (calculated) background image/" calculated is the disturbing word
> here :)
> "/light mask" is not an easy concept to catch (but not necessarily a
> hard one to translate)./
> "/without any person in the image/" person? why person and not somethind
> more generic as element or subject? makes me think
> "/video starts with a «clean» background image/" I have the impression
> that the first frame of the background video is taken as something special?
>
> Besides that, in the Merry Xmas video, how did you create the letters
> animation?
>
> Thanks for developing in first place, and for taking the time to answer!
>
> Greetings
> g
>
>
> 2011/1/4 Simon Eugster <simon.eu <http://simon.eu>@gmail.com
> <http://gmail.com>>
>
>     Hi Gabriel,
>
>     Please wait with translating it, if possible. I'm still working on it
>     and I cannot promise you there will be no changes to these strings.
>     Just to avoid double work.
>
>     Where exactly are you unsure? I'm not sure whether the strings
>     themselves are clear enough, so I may have to change them anyway.
>     The effect basically allows to paint into the video with light, as
>     here: http://vimeo.com/18127754
>
>     Simon
>
>     2011/1/4 Gabriel Gazzán <gabcorreo at gmail.com
>     <mailto:gabcorreo at gmail.com>>:
>      > Hi,
>      >
>      > Please, can anybody explain what the Light Graffiti effect does?
>      > I'm not completely sure of how to translate some strings.
>      >
>      > thanks!
>      > g
>      >
>      >
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