Revision as of 06:45, 20 August 2015

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Wish list

Titler
- Keep a simple text incrustation tool, but call a full featured SVG editor for complex designs
  - Base it on WebVFX (allowing to use HTML, javascript or QML) to avoid maintaing our own MLT module? Here is a small demo of what it can achieve
Timeline
- Automatic composite for clips with alpha
- Cross fades on same track (à la Shotcut)
- Synchronized tracks (ripple delete / spacer tool etc would keep track groups in sync)
- copy/paste across projects
Exports
- Kdenlive 0.x format
- OpenShot, FlowBlade, PiTiVi...
- EDL and other exchange formats (MLT module?)
Effects
- Apply GEGL/G'MIC/Blender effects (MLT module)?
UI
- Shortcut matching other editors (FinalCut, Avid, Vegas etc)

Alternative timeline view specialised on editing transitions (snapshot, just for demonstration; click for full size and see the SVG in the refactoring branch for infinite size):

Documentation

Workflow
- What are the git branches used for
Code documentation
- give big-picture views (explain to someone new to the code what it does, why it is required, and who it interacts with)

Refactoring

Break big classes into smaller ones (targetting the refactored architecture: Cutsomtrackview, Renderer...)
Replace XML manipulations with MLT API calls
Port UI to QML

The proposed architecture can be found in the refactoring branch in refactoring-doc/ – find some snapshots here (not updated, just to get an impression):

See discussion here

Done!

Port Kdenlive to KF5 (KDE Framework 5)
Write an OpenGL display. When this is done, Movit can be integrated.
Refactor ProjectManagement/Bin
Project clips effects, so e.g. colour grading is done only once on the clip in the project bin and not every time in the timeline
Render using MLT presets

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 = Wish list =
-* WebVfx editor for titles; the titler should be an SVG editor with effects and candies, so writing our own does not make sense. See [http://kdenlive.org/videos/retitler.html] for a demo on what WebVfx can achieve. (Original comment by JBM: The titler's code is currently quite broken and hard to fix. Using [https://github.com/rectalogic/webvfx webvfx] seems an interesting option, it would allow to create titles using HTML, javascript or QML. For those interested, I created a sample title with the webvfx module that can be viewed here: [http://kdenlive.org/videos/retitler.html Titler sample video])
+* Titler
+** Keep a simple text incrustation tool, but call a full featured SVG editor for complex designs
+*** Base it on WebVFX (allowing to use HTML, javascript or QML) to avoid maintaing our own MLT module? Here is a [http://kdenlive.org/videos/retitler.html small demo] of what it can achieve
+* Timeline
+** Automatic composite for clips with alpha
+** Cross fades on same track (à la Shotcut)
+** Synchronized tracks (ripple delete / spacer tool etc would keep track groups in sync)
+** copy/paste across projects
+* Exports
+** Kdenlive 0.x format
+** OpenShot, FlowBlade, PiTiVi...
+** EDL and other exchange formats (MLT module?)
+* Effects
+** Apply GEGL/G'MIC/Blender effects (MLT module)?
+* UI
+** Shortcut matching other editors (FinalCut, Avid, Vegas etc)
 * Alternative timeline view specialised on editing transitions (snapshot, just for demonstration; click for full size and see the SVG in the refactoring branch for infinite size):