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.
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