OpenTimelineIO: post-production exchange format from Pixar

[Camille]

Hi Nicolas, *,

As I understand it, it is just a pivot format, and the idea would  be to 
write an "adpater" for Kdenlive's native format, as they have one for 
FinalCutPro,

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/wiki/How-to-Write-an-OpenTimelineIO-Adapter

https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO/blob/master/opentimelineio/adapters/fcp_xml.py

Cheers,
Camille


Le 19/05/2018 à 10:57, alcinos a écrit :
> Hi all,
>
> The project seems interesting, and could open easy integrations with 
> other softwares. We should try to assess if this project is also used 
> in the FOSS community, because the github only mentions commercial 
> softwares.
> One drawback is that everything seems to be in python, but we should 
> be able to workaround that if we want to be able to read/write to this 
> format.
>
>
> However, this will not be the format that kdenlive uses at its core in 
> the forseeable future. Kdenlive's format is tied to MLT, which 
> provides numerous advantages in terms of writing, parsing and 
> intercompability.
> The "generation 3" of the project format mentionned in the document is 
> simply due to the fact that we changed a bit the way we use MLT behind 
> the scenes (to allow for new features eventually, like same-track 
> transitions), hence the XML will look slightly different, but it will 
> remain a MLT XML.
>
> Cheers!
>
> 2018-05-18 21:05 GMT+02:00 farid abdelnour <snd.noise at gmail.com 
> <mailto:snd.noise at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>     2018-05-18 0:50 GMT-03:00 Sam Muirhead <sam at cameralibre.cc
>     <mailto:sam at cameralibre.cc>>:
>
>         Hi everyone, long time no see :)
>
>
>     Hi Sam, indeed! Hope you are well.
>
>
>         I read about Pixar's post-production exchange format,
>         OpenTimelineIO, and instantly thought of Kdenlive:
>
>         https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO
>         <https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/OpenTimelineIO>
>
>         I posted on the forum about it too:
>         https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=265&t=152489
>         <https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=265&t=152489>
>
>         It's new to me, but maybe not for others - has anyone looked
>         into whether OTIO may be suitable exchange format for Kdenlive
>         projects to export/import? Have you discussed it before?
>
>
>     Had seen other Pixar stuff used in Blender but never this. Will
>     definitely look into it. :)
>
>
>         It might be something to think about for the post-refactor
>         future, it would be wonderful to be able to exchange cuts with
>         other editors, as well as different parts of the
>         post-production pipeline - audio, animation, vfx etc.
>
>
>     At the sprint we discussed ways to integrate Kdenlive with other
>     programs and it is in the roadmap.[1] Do you know how adopted this
>     is in the industry?
>
>     [1]
>     https://kdenlive.org/en/2018/05/kdenlive-paris-sprint-lgm-report/
>     <https://kdenlive.org/en/2018/05/kdenlive-paris-sprint-lgm-report/>
>
>     Thanks for sharing
>     Cheers :D
>
>
>
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