[Kdenlive-devel] Howdy. How can I help?

[Dan Dennedy]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 10:39 AM, Gus Scheidt <ellocogato at gmail.com> wrote:
> This looks like something I can tackle, though I have very little
> Blender experience, and I'm not a Python developer, so I don't know if
> that will slow me down.
>
> Just to clarify, the KdenParse tool creates an equivalent EDL file
> from a kdenlive project file, which is the desired functionality.  But
> there are some issues that prevent the EDL file from being loaded
> properly by Blender.  These bugs need to be worked out.  Is this
> correct?

Yes, but the EDL can only represent a very limited subset of what
Kdenlive can do. I think you are just limited to clips on tracks of a
timeline with no filters or transitions. That may seem kind of
pointless, but some people keep asking for it nonetheless. :-)

> ~Gus
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 8:59 AM, farid abdelnour <snd.noise at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> hi
>>>>
>>>> i dont know what the devs think of this but maybe you could check out
>>>> kdenparse and make it compatible with blender's edl importer (which is
>>>> compatible with cmx edl).
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/barry-lyndon/KdenParse
>>>>
>>>> cheers  :)
>>>
>>> Can you please fork that project and fix the compatibility? If you are
>>> unable, can you please try to recruit someone who is not already busy
>>> as a core Kdenlive or MLT developer? This is independent code that can
>>> be easily worked on by someone who is interested in it. Yet no one
>>> has. Why is that?
>>
>> Let me clarify that this was directed to both Farid and Gus - or
>> really, anyone! If you are not in a position to make code changes to
>> this project, maybe you can figure out and document the workflow
>> step-by-step for producing the EDL and loading it into blender.
>> Document the error messages and the problems. Then, try to make the
>> manual changes to the EDL that are required to get it to load
>> correctly, and document those. It would be a tremendous help to a
>> developer.
>>
>>>>
>>>> 2013/4/13 Gus Scheidt <ellocogato at gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am interested in helping push open source video editing.  I threw a
>>>>> few bucks to OpenShot's Kickstarter campaign, but since I prefer and
>>>>> use kdenlive, I am offering my time here (not that I have a whole lot
>>>>> of it to give).  I am a developer, but I don't think I have the time
>>>>> right now to learn MLT and kdenlive well enough to contribute to
>>>>> coding.
>>>>>
>>>>> I do, however, have some experience with bug triage, video tutorials
>>>>> and documentation, and I'd be happy to offer a few hours a week of my
>>>>> time to any of these.  What does the project need the most right now?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> ~Gus
>>>>>
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