[kdenlive] Development news - may 2015

[Steve Guilford]

Bravo !!!

On 05/18/2015 11:03 AM, jb wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Yesterday, I merged the frameworks branch into master. All development - apart
> from big refactorings - will now happen in master.
>
> The code in master will be released in august as Kdenlive 15.08.0 as part of
> KDE Applications 15.08.0
>
> The most important changes are:
>
> * refactoring of several parts of the core code
> * drop SDL for video display - use OpenGL by default like Shotcut video editor
> * New file format. Kdenlive 15.08.0 can open old project files but old
> Kdenlive versions cannot open new projects.
> * Project bin view can be changed from tree view to icon view and can be
> zoomed.
> * Add effects to bin clips
> * New "Compare effect" feature in clip monitor allowing to split screen to
> preview an effect
> * New Colorwheel UI for color adjustments
> * Movit GPU processing is back for display and effects, but currently requires
> MLT's rtaudio module since sdl_audio crashes in MLT with Movit
> * New "force monitor size" feature allowing to lock monitor size to 50% or
> 100% of profile size
> * Improved compatibility with different color themes
> * Improved compatibility with highdpi displays
> * Compiles on Mac (at least on build.kde.org) - no idea if it also runs
>
> Known regressions:
>
> * Video capture, stopmotion and decklink export not implemented yet (I hope to
> fix this before release)
> * Editing clip properties is very limited (should also be fixed in the next
> month).
> * MLT playlists / Kdenlive projects as clips not really tested
>
> Packagers interested in providing "development" versions of Kdenlive should
> use the master branch from now on, while the "Applications/15.04" branch is
> the stable fixes only repository.
>
> Regards,
> Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
>
>
>
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