Wow, that does change things. That's a pretty big step to take, may I ask what the key reasons are? I'm not that familiar with MLT, does it have some major shortcoming? Also, is there somewhere I can check out the progress, details, etc. of the new library?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 8:53 PM, Andy Finch <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi Nick, > > I think your attachment got lost somehow, could you send it again? > > In general, those new features you mention are all on the todo list, so it > would be great to have someone working on them. > > One thing to bear in mind at the moment - later this year, work will begin > on moving Openshot away from using the MLT video library to our own > library. This will affect those features you mention. > > But lets take a look at your ideas first and start from there. > > Thanks, > Andy. > > On 16 June 2012 04:09, Nick Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Openshot crew, my name's Nick. I'm an ex-software developer, but I >> still code for a hobby. I'm interested in doing some work on Openshot. >> I've been a Cinelerra user in the past, and there's some particular >> features that I'd like to try and implement in Openshot (mainly the >> ability >> to keyframe arbitrary values and effects, like audio volume, video >> opacity, >> XYZ transform, etc). >> >> I've grabbed and browsed the code from bzr, and did a bit of a mockup this >> morning (attached). What I was hoping for was some feedback on the >> direction the mockup is going. I know Openshot is aimed somewhat at the >> beginner, and these are some slightly more advanced features that I want >> to >> add. If you guys think this is incompatible with your vision for >> Openshot, >> that's fine. In that event I'd probably have a crack at working on >> Pitivi. Openshot looks like a more friendly beast to hack on, but I'd >> rather not have to fork it to put features in. Again, hope that doesn't >> all sound too extreme, just don't want the work to go to waste. >> >> Let me stress I'm not trying to tell you guys what to do. This mockup >> just >> shows some things I would love to see in Openshot, and I'm prepared to get >> my hands dirty working on them. What I really want to know is, do these >> ideas line up roughly with the current future vision for Openshot? P.S. >> Is >> there a UI brainstorming wiki or something I should have checked before >> sending this? I found none, but I might just have missed it or something. >> If so I'm sorry, I didn't mean to circumvent the system. >> >> Looking forward to hearing from anyone and everyone :) >> God bless. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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