Am 21.02.2011 15:27, schrieb Paolo Valtorta: > Why the "Cinelerra Bezier Patch" of Hermann Vosseler isn't in cinelerra > code? IMHO is a good improvement.
Hi Paolo, because at the time I wrote that patch, the Cinelerra community cared much about mergeability with "Upstream" (the Heroine Warrior versions). At that time, we started an review, which then stalled somewhat in the middle. My patch indeed does some changes in the handling of the timeline window. Not too disruptive, but likely to cause slight problems with merging. The deeper reason is that at that time I also wanted to improve Cinelerra and clean up some internals (like introducing setter methods and making fields private, removing that silly "if (play-forwards).." distinctions or somewhat cleaning up the internal handling of ctrl- shift- and alt key-presses in the timeline window). In the discussion at that time, it was pointed out that I should/could maybe do it in smaller and less disruptive steps, which should be reworked to be independent and could be applied / rejected in isolation. Actually, *I* did not want to go this route, because I did the patch as a whole for my own needs. That is, I had a clear concept oriented towards smooth handling in practice. At that time I was working on a larger editing project, and it would have been outright impossible to get ahead without these automatic keyframe smoothing. Basically I had to circumvent the broken Transitions in 80% of the project by using manual cross fades. Thus I continued to use this patch privately -- and you probably know the rest of the story. Frustrated with the experience that even small and practical improvements to Cinelerra quickly grow into major undertakings, when you apply some quality standards, I concluded that some fundamentals need to be rectified first... Which finally led me to engaging in the Lumiera project. Regarding my patch -- when I see that currently way more disruptive changes are done just on a happy "lets see if it breaks" basis, I think we could indeed reconsider my patch. The last time I really checked was a year ago, and at that time it still applied without problems. Personally I'm still using an almost 2 years old version of Cinelerra for my own work, but hey -- I am still on Debian/Lenny So -- what do others think? Are there realistic chances to get the patch into the official CV-Version? Cheers, Hermann V. _______________________________________________ Cinelerra mailing list Cinelerra@skolelinux.no https://init.linpro.no/mailman/skolelinux.no/listinfo/cinelerra
