Mr. Lewis, to answer your question, Pitivi supports a couple basic transitions right now. Transition effects have been on the roadmap for years, and for what its worth, my guess is more advanced transitions will stay unimplemented until a GSoC-er decides to take them as a project.
-Chase On 6/15/11 3:38 PM, A. James Lewis wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 11:40 -0700, dotsony wrote: >> On 15/06/11 11:28, Zarmakuizz wrote: >>> A 'transition effect' is an effect that goes from a video to another >>> one. >>> >>> For example, you have two sequences. One is displayed. Then, the >>> displayed sequence starts moving to the right and the "space" at >>> left is completed by the sequence that wasn't displayed. Finally, >>> the second sequence replaced the first. >>> Attached is the example explained with a picture. >> We have back-end support for SMPTE wipes that is not exposed in the >> UI. That will probably be exposed soon (if it isn't already). We don't >> really have pitivi core support for moving layers of video yet, so >> that kind of "sliding" effect would require a bit more effort. Come to >> think of it, it probably wouldn't be that hard, but it wasn't on the >> radar until now. >> > I have no idea how hard this kind of thing is with the application as it > is, but I would say you want to consider more possible transitions than > that.... > > Imagine I take two different clips and overlap them by a number of > seconds... then the default transition effect might be to fade one out, > and fade the other in during the crossover (ie, cross fade)... but any > number of effects could be imagined.... imagine 2 layers where the top > one shrinks or rotates off the screen like the various "close window" > animations in compiz, one layer might push the other off the screen, or > slide over the top of it... there are a great many possibilities. > > There are at least 10 examples of different wipes and digital effects on > this page:- > > http://www.mediacollege.com/video/editing/transition/types.html > > James > > >> --Brandon >>> Le 15/06/2011 19:29, dotsony a écrit : >>>> On 15/06/11 03:00, A. James Lewis wrote: >>>>> I've been looking at the latest version with effects recently, >>>>> and I >>>>> have to say that the effects interface etc is much better >>>>> developed and >>>>> functional than I expected for a first outing! >>>>> >>>>> Great job... >>>>> >>>>> One thing I wanted to ask, is... is it possible to do transition >>>>> effects >>>>> too, or is that something which is yet to come? >>>>> >>>>> James. >>>> I'm not familiar with the concept of a 'transition effect'. >>>> Perhaps you >>>> could explain it in a little more detail. >>>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> EditLive Enterprise is the world's most technically advanced >>>>> content >>>>> authoring tool. 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