i think best way to do all this kind of improvements is openning a bug
for each one and work on it step by step.
2006/7/31, Herman Robak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 06:09:05 +0200, Dimitrios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Being realistic, i can see an alternative route:
>
> --> 2 interfaces!
>
> The user loads cinellera for the first time and gets a dialog: "Welcome
> to cinellera, would you like the Basic Interface or the Expert
> Interface?"
Control question: At which point of time will the user be
able to make the right choice? Hint: Not the first time.
> In other words, we keep the current interface and just add a "lighter"
> version along with it. All advanced features will only exist in the
> "Expert Interface" while all the "Basic Interface" will have only the
> simple features for working on simple projects.
This is interesting. I would like a debate here about what the typical
"beginner" user does, and what he needs. Based on that, we may come up
with some assumptions about sensible defaults in the Preferences and
Format dialogs.
> The new "Basic Interface" can be designed for usability, with hints,
> explanations and simple buttons. As intuitive and understandable as
> possible.
These features could benefit the "Expert" interface, too.
Things that Cinelerra could advertise better:
* Which tracks are affected by a selection or operation; different
highlighting of armed and unarmed tracks, and maybe a short flash
in the patchbay to remind the user "these are the armed tracks".
* The consequences of "arming/disarming" tracks. For example, if you
drag a video to the timeline, and there are not enough armed sound
tracks to receive all the audio channels in that video, some status
bar or tooltip should say that.
* Current resolution, aspect ratio and framerate
* Current colour format (yuv, rgb, float, with or without alpha)
* Current audio rate and resolution; give the user a hint if all the
resources have a sample rate that is different from the project rate.
And, by the way: "Ganging" a video track with its audio tracks would
be jolly useful, too!
--
Herman Robak
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