https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358780
Bug ID: 358780
Summary: 15.13 git master: "expand clip" gives no user feedback
for errors or during time-consuming expansion
Product: kdenlive
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: User Interface
Assignee: j...@kdenlive.org
Reporter: wegwerf-1-...@gmx.de
The "expand clip" functionality is simply great, it adds so much value to
Kdenlive. However, my impression is that it needs some polish in order to avoid
the false impression that it doesn't work at all. In particular, I miss these
two these two aspects:
1. error feedback when expand clip is unable to expand a clip -- currently,
there is no error feedback at all and this left me often wondering what went
wrong.
2. (in) progress feedback while MLT crunches on more demanding clips --
currently, there is no feedback at all, so the user doesn't know whether
Kdenlive is still working. Especially as there is no error feedback either,
Kdenlive leaves users in the dark as to what is happening.
For instance, often Kdenlive is unable to expand a clip -- one cause for
expansion not working may be that the required tracks are already occupied by
clips at the range covered by the expanding clip. However, as there is no
feedback the user has no way to understand what to do when expansion fails.
I only found out by trial and error that library playlist clips usually expand
correctly when I put them to the end of the project timeline, a region where
there is enough space also track-wise to expand.
In addition, Kdenlive doesn't report back when there are not enough tracks to
expand a clip. Of course, it would be great if Kdenlive then could ask back to
add enough tracks and after confirmation then do the necessary changes and
expansion.
Reproducible: Always
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