This afternoon (European time) Johannes Sixt (j6t),
Gustavo Iñigues (ga), Pierre Marc Dumuid (pmdumuid) and
I (hermanr) had an IRC meeting discussing Cinelerra's
user interface.
DV grabbing and export leaves a lot to be desired.
We needed more research to know where to start...
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Timeline UI: better indication of arming, and play on/off.
Some suggestions on how to singnalise status in more ways:
Darkening unarmed tracks (rejected, better ideas?)
Graying "don't play" tracks (inconclusive. maybe darkening?)
Changing the mouse pointer over unarmed tracks
Having the View menu turned into a panel
Cinelerra needs a status bar. (displaying what info?)
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Klipper and sound daemons keep causing new users grief.
* Klipper: Cinelerra's clipboard handling is wrong. TODO: Fix it
* Sound daemons: display notification TODO: add a status bar
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Tracks should be groupable, so that they will be (un)armed
in unison. This will make it easier to keep audio and video
tracks in synch when they are moved around. When media files
are imported, their audio and video tracks should be grouped
by default.
To keep things simple, only adjacent tracks should be
groupable, with an obvious (un)group widget between tracks
to click on.
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Tracks are at least 32 pixels tall, and a video recording contain
3 tracks, taking up much screen estate. Dealing with many tracks
gets unmanagable on normally sized screens; some more aggressive
collapsing features are needed.
j6t:
"so we don't need a menu, just an icon between tracks, only neighboring
tracks are linked, and it means that they share the same armed/unarmed
state"
There are two needs: Hiding and grouping
Suggestion: if linked tracks are collapsed, one of them becomes the
"master"
(needs more research)
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Herman Robak
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