2010/2/15 Jeff <[email protected]>: > Hi Robin, > first I want to say that you're working on a really often-requested feature > (it's filed as https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415360 ) > It would be awesome to have it. > > I want to give my quick thoughts as a non-developer (as a tester, UI > designer/usability freak, etc.). My understanding of the implementation is > limited, but on the user side of things, wouldn't it be nicer if we instead > had a workflow like the following? > 1. Import your images in pitivi. > 2. Select them in the source list. > 3. Use a special "Project > Make stop-motion clip..." menu item (sensitive > only if a bunch of still images are selected). This would show a dialog > asking to specify the framerate or duration, and then it would create some > kind of "meta-clip". > 4. You drag that "meta-clip" in the timeline just like a normal clip. > > On the UI side, this is much more efficient and it would be *a LOT* better > in terms of UI performance (one cairo/goocanvas/thingy object instead of > 27000 objects), and would be much more manageable (what if you want to > change your settings along the way, or trim the whole thing, or move the > whole thing to a different layer? Not very efficient if it's a bunch of 15ms > clips).
(Jeff and I discussed this a little on the IRC channel, for anyone following along at home). I think this approach sounds in the right direction to me. I went with my approach because there was already a default duration for clips from image files that was easy for me to hook the preference into without knowing too much about the pitivi codebase. Basically expediency over quality. :-) But I think it may still be a useful addition until something better can be developed. I'll see if I can get something more along the lines of what Jeff suggests working pretty soon. -RN -- Robin Norwood "The Sage does nothing, yet nothing remains undone." -Lao Tzu, Te Tao Ching ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Pitivi-pitivi mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pitivi-pitivi
