Re: [CinCVS] Why can't free software GUIs be empowering instead of limiting?

2008-02-12 Thread Jonas Wulff
I think the point is that if the choice between portability to win and performance has to be made, the emphasis will be on performance instead of portability. Or the other way round: Let this be a good linux software (and whoever wants to can port it, anyway) instead of designing it to be a so-so

Re: [CinCVS] Totally dumb question

2008-02-06 Thread Jonas Wulff
From what I know about Jahshaka, its focus is more on compositing (like combustion, just look at the screenshots), whereas cin3/however it will be called one day is *more* (emphasized since both applications can do both I guess) about editing... However on the other hand, since it is just

Re: [CinCVS] Still slideshow inside video PiP

2008-02-05 Thread Jonas Wulff
On Feb 5, 2008 4:45 PM, Terje J. Hanssen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wish to stimulate up a color video scene by putting in a black and white still slide show inside the vidoe like a PiP. The original video scene contains halph and hour of a relative statical motive, a speacher memorizing

Re: [CinCVS] How do you make DVDs?

2007-12-08 Thread Jonas Wulff
With dvdauthor (not qdvdauthor, so no fancy gui) you can just use a mpeg file as the menu background. A snippet of the dvdauthor xml file should look like this (assuming this is menu #1 adressed in the post section) pgc vob file=MENU_PRI/PRI.mpg/vob buttonjump title 10;/button button.../button

Re: [CinCVS] Re: [piksel] Linux Video Editing Discussion

2007-11-24 Thread Jonas Wulff
Generally Richard, Herman and me (et al) agreed that we wan't no bulky overloaded supereffects but that it is somewhat essential for free software to develop effects which do simple things and then can be used to combine new functionality. In this case this means we need: 1) an analyzing part

Re: [CinCVS] Metaclips

2007-08-30 Thread Jonas Wulff
Not even two, just maybe half a cent... Wouldn't it be possible not to integrate the final product of blender/audacity editing into the timeline but a temporary preview (leaving the original file untouched), and storing the parameters? (Actually that's what I understood marquitux meant) So that

Re: [CinCVS] Fancy Titles HowTo

2007-08-20 Thread Jonas Wulff
Another thing about professional credits is that their scrolling speed is usually constant, so one should make sure to use the bezier handles to prevent motion 'fade-in/-out'. Just to mention. Good idea to use OO! Jonas On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 09:59:16 +1200 David McNab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: [CinCVS] I found a linux motion interpolator! :))

2007-08-11 Thread Jonas Wulff
Wouldn't it be good to have a general YUV stream/pipe plugin? Probably not anywhere near realtime, but it could be useful to have something like the YUV-output rendering pipe, just as a plugin, allowing the user to pipe the current sequence to whatever commands he likes, returning the pipe output

Re: [CinCVS] substracting videos

2007-08-11 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hi E, from what I know the overlay plugin can be used exactly for that (haven't used it myself, though) http://cvs.cinelerra.org/docs/wiki/doku.php?id=english_manual:cinelerra_cv_en_14#overlay_video Just use it as the first entry in your plugin stack and do the other postpro afterwards. Hope

[CinCVS] Homepage / plugin systematics

2007-08-11 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hi all, I didn't take a look at the homepage for quite some time... And I'm really impressed! Just something I wanted to say -- great job you guys have done! One thing I was wondering about, though -- wouldn't it be useful to subgroup the plugins somehow? Like Video plugins / Color / Histogram,

Re: [CinCVS] Open Movie Editor

2007-08-10 Thread Jonas Wulff
... but that's still the general problem with Linux. If you aren't willing to invest time in your system, go ahead and use windows. Of course you'll miss the flexibility then.. Jonas On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 12:53:53 -0400 Douglas Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well folks, you have convinced me

Re: [CinCVS] Req: Cinelerra plugin architecture

2007-08-07 Thread Jonas Wulff
Yes, it is a good idea and it would be a good thing to have... If you take a look at the archives, you'll also see that extending the plugin capabilities has been requested several times before. But from what I've understood, that would require major changes in cinelerra itself, so nobody's

Re: [CinCVS] scripting interface

2007-08-01 Thread Jonas Wulff
Did you have a look at Cinepaint? It's based on gimp but can operate on frame sequences... I don't know exactly if that's what you are looking for, though, but thinking of Gimp's scripting facilities you might find something there. http://www.cinepaint.org/ Jonas On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 00:49:10

Re: [CinCVS] Advice on Rendering formats.

2007-04-09 Thread Jonas Wulff
You can use the same dvd-codec, mpeg2. I think there's an article in the wiki about 'exporting to dvd'... Using those export settings you should end up with something comparable to the original dvd.. On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 12:55:38 +0100 Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the UK (so

Re: [CinCVS] razor

2007-04-09 Thread Jonas Wulff
Wouldn't it be the easiest if you just used a second video track for your photos? You could leave your speaker track intact and just put photos on that seperate track where you want to... additionally, that would allow you to move around the pictures to see where they fit best without having to

Re: [CinCVS] Call of cinelerra translators

2006-12-03 Thread Jonas Wulff
And as even german translations of business applications such as Premiere use the term 'Asset', I think it is save to leave it (for example 'Asset hinzufuegen'. On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 09:24 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's worth mentioning, though, that asset *is* the standard technical term

Re: [CinCVS] 2.0LE

2006-10-04 Thread Jonas Wulff
No, you were not. :-) It is rather obvious that speed is more critical for playback than for rendering, to most users. Unless you have a really powerful machine, you need the nearest neightbour setting to get decent playback. But you most probably don't want nearest neighbour for

Re: [CinCVS] Effects order.

2006-08-04 Thread Jonas Wulff
On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:09 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: You may get almost the desired result by crossfading the effects, using keyframes, if the transition is a crossfade. Otherwise, you have to use two tracks. Wouldn't it be helpful then to enable transitions to blend between two tracks,

Re: [CinCVS] Effects order.

2006-08-04 Thread Jonas Wulff
have since moved away from this approach. On 8/4/06, Jonas Wulff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2006-08-03 at 20:09 +0200, Herman Robak wrote: You may get almost the desired result by crossfading the effects, using keyframes, if the transition is a crossfade. Otherwise, you have

Re: [CinCVS] interim report on ./configure FC5

2006-07-14 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hello Tom, here is a list of how your missing packages are called within yum: libx264 - x264 / x264-devel libfftw3 - fftw / fftw-devel (version 3.x) liba52 - a52dec / a52dec-devel libfaac - faac / faac-devel libfaad - faad2 / faad2-devel So I think everything you need is contained in the

Re: [CinCVS] Re: polynominal and bezier histogram

2006-04-15 Thread Jonas Wulff
This was tried already and it doesn't work. What's needed is the same algorithm that The Gimp uses but for floating point and with arbitrary numbers of points. Well... I have to admin that I don't completly understand what you mean with it doesn't work. It works just fine for me. (Although

[CinCVS] Bezier histogram

2006-04-14 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hello everyone, I'd like to hear your opinions and comments about this little enhancement to cinelerra's histogram: polynominal and bezier interpolation (of course most useful with floating-point color models). It's located at http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/jonas.wulff/histogram.tar.gz The

Re: [CinCVS] Notes on cinelerra usability

2006-02-28 Thread Jonas Wulff
user interface should recover to the state it was last in ... either on the project-level or the user-level, depending on what is more intuitive behaviour I agree. Project-level with user-level default values for empty projects seems to me to make the most sense. Regards, JOnas

Re: [CinCVS] Ohhhh nooooooo !!!!! Bug ????

2006-02-18 Thread Jonas Wulff
Glad to hear you'll meet your deadline! The .idx files are located in your .bcast directory within the current user's homedir. Am Sonntag, den 19.02.2006, 00:12 +0100 schrieb Nicolas: The project opened fine when launching cinelerra with the root user. There's still 2.5Go free in my /

Re: [CinCVS] Error-log file?

2006-02-18 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hello, have you tried starting cinelerra from a console? usually the console displays the output and warning and errors, like e.g. the ones printed by mpeg2enc. (just a question: are you sure mpeg2enc.plugin is located in your /usr/local/lib/cinelerra directory?) jonas Am Samstag, den

Re: [CinCVS] Interlacing mode in batch rendering

2006-02-05 Thread Jonas Wulff
Hi Nicolas, what you can do is to insert a new command in front of your chain: yuvcorrect. It can set an unknown interlacing format to a specified format. Usage is for example yuvcorrect -T INTERLACED_BOTTOM_FIRST to set the stream to bottom interlacing. Hope that helps, Jonas Am Samstag,