Composite vs position and zoom

[alberto fuentes]

I faced another bug in position and zoom:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=384628

Im only using transform now and converting the custom effects I had
with position and zoom

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 1:21 PM, alberto fuentes <pajaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> After messing with them a little bit, I have to say transform is
> better in almost every way to position and zoom unless im missing
> something obvious
>
> Transform even allows you to put the keyframes relatives to the end,
> which allows you to create custom effects for clip endings, allowing
> you to reuse your handcrafted effects. Which is a killer feature
>
> Theres nothing you can do with position and zoom that you cant do with
> transform, but theres things you can do with transform that you cant
> do with position and zoom (the later even have an imporant bug as
> farid pointed out)
>
> I understand it might be the work of different people and is a mess
> from the developer perspective not to include it, but I would prefer
> redundancy to be gone from the user perspective. I think "Theres no
> wrong way to do it" is bad ui design. Its confusing and make users
> think they are different features, which arent obvious unless you try
> them all... which is why is bad ui design
>
> Im not sure yet about transition vs effect. The supposed advantage is
> that is more than alpha blend, but transform effect have an
> compositing option which controls that...
>
> Again, I understand completely floss development, and this is a
> byproduct of having several authors doing their own thing... which im
> very grateful to btw... but somebody should be calling ui design
> choices separating the wheat from the chaff to improve kdenlive :)
>
> Thank you all for your replies!
>
>
>
> On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 11:30 PM, farid abdelnour <snd.noise at gmail.com> wrote:
>> hi alberto
>>
>> 2017-09-10 9:05 GMT-03:00 alberto fuentes <pajaro at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> How are we supposed to move things on the screen? Are there advantages?
>>
>>
>> i can't really technically say which is better but *for me* position and
>> zoom is what works best.
>>
>> basically +1 to what harald said.
>>
>>
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