Greetings everyone! I have a few ideas I wanted to bounce off everyone. Since the C++ library is taking longer than anticipated (because of cross-platform slow down... mainly issues with Windows and how much it sucks), I thought maybe we should knock out another MLT powered release, and let's call this verison 1.4.
Here were a few things we could focus on: * * *Replace Goocanvas with Mutter (or another canvas)* - Goocanvas is giving us all sorts of trouble with performance (when zoomed in) and not displaying the entire timeline, due to issues with maximum width. This is a MAJOR change, and will likely take a lot of time to get right, but it could make a HUGE difference to the performance and speed of OpenShot's timeline. *Relative File Paths* - This has been a long standing issue, and one that is easily fixed. The .OSP file only needs the relative path to the media, and at run-time we locate the actual file path and use it. This would make moving projects easily, as well as sharing your project easier. Easy and low risk. *Improve SWIG Python bindings to MLT* - I have learned many things about SWIG in recent days, as well as the ability to add generic Python try/catch around all MLT method calls. It works great with C++, but I've never tried it with C, so no promises this will work. But, best case, no more "segmentation faults" from MLT that kill the Python interpretor. Instead, generic Python errors would be raised, and we could handle them in some better way. *Improve ICON and THEME* - As much as I like the new timeline theme, I think we can improve it a bit more. This might go hand in hand with Mutter (or similar canvas), but I want the clip representations to look as slick as possible, spacing, play-head, etc... to all as good as possible. Just saying there are bound to be some small and significant changes we can make to improve the look and feel. *Transitions and Effects and Titles* - We have many effects that are not being tapped into, including many Frie0r effects, additional audio effects, color correcting effects, etc... We can also create a lot more transitions, or use the community to generate many new transitions and title SVGs. These are low risk additions to any release, and add some fun for users. In summary, the new C++ video editing library is coming along great, but more slowly than I hoped. So, a new release of OpenShot would keep the momentum moving in our direction, and hopefully please our users, fans, and critics. =) What does everyone think about this idea? Thanks! -Jonathan
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