>I'm also developing an obsession for open source >video processing. I develop scripts (and >graphical wizards to control/run them, for >inexprienced/lazy users) that push the limits of >the current state of Linux video processing >tools.
Ah, cool! That wasn't the direction I was planning to take, but it's definitely something I'd like to see in open-source GUI video editing. So please keep it up! >I tried to contact the author of the SMIL Utils >to ask about development and features that could >improve the capabilities of video processing >scripts, but I did not receive a response. Do >you plan to take a look at the SMIL utils as >well? I'm very interested in what you're >planning to do. My vision is to have a video-editing system that's based around hierarchical composition of independent parts. For example, instead of making the user physically glue parts of their audio/video together, I prefer letting them describe the various sections of their audio/video generically, build hierarchies of such sections, and let the editing system adjust the overall composition based on small edits to individual parts. Basically a graphically-edited makefile for video. For instance, I see a lot of TV programs and movies where the sound for the next scene starts before the video part. I want to have an A/V section that, for example, "officially" starts at the beginning of the video part, but contains a "prelude" that will get blended with any video prepended to its beginning. Such a section could be moved around the hierarchy, but would automatically blend itself in with whatever it's paired with. That's just one example of the abilities I'd like to see for A/V sections...there are plenty of others. Attached to this e-mail is an example script-file for a tool I wrote about two years ago. I called it lavmix. It took me about four days to write, and does a lot of what I want in an audio/video composition tool. But it's text-file based; I'd prefer something that allows the information to be edited and browsed graphically. I'd rather turn it into a GUI product, rather than spend lots of time making the text-file parser deal with syntax and semantic errors better. (Which is why I never released the code.) Steven Boswell ulatekh at yahoo dot com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/
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