Well, I just realized that Clutter is an openGL canvas, and seems to require openGL. So... that would be a new requirement that we would need to carefully consider. =) Another idea I have mentioned to a few people recently, is the possibility of using the Mozilla Gecko engine or a Webkit engine, and use HTML5 canvas, CSS, javascript, and JQuery, or some combination of that. I just have no idea how good that would work or if it's even possible on a pyGTK application to integrate the GTK signals with Javascript running in Python. But... if we could make this work, it might be awesome and very fast to mock-up and develop. Any thoughts?
Thanks, -Jonathan On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Maël Lavault <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh and for the timeline theme, i think we should use clutter > possibilities (beautiful animations, fading, ...) and have only one > theme instead of changing between multiple theme which means using image > and a lot more code. > > Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 11:25 -0500, Jonathan Thomas a écrit : > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > >
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