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[Jonathan Thomas <jonathan.oomph@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I just realized that Clutter is an openGL canvas, and seems to require
openGL.  So... that would be a new requirement that we would need to
carefully consider.  =)  Another idea I have mentioned to a few people
recently, is the possibility of using the Mozilla Gecko engine or a Webkit
engine, and use HTML5 canvas, CSS, javascript, and JQuery, or some
combination of that.  I just have no idea how good that would work or if
it's even possible on a pyGTK application to integrate the GTK signals with
Javascript running in Python.  But... if we could make this work, it might
be awesome and very fast to mock-up and develop.  Any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Jonathan

On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Maël Lavault <moimael@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Oh and for the timeline theme, i think we should use clutter
> possibilities (beautiful animations, fading, ...) and have only one
> theme instead of changing between multiple theme which means using image
> and a lot more code.
>
> Le mercredi 08 juin 2011 à 11:25 -0500, Jonathan Thomas a écrit :
> > Greetings everyone!  I have a few ideas I wanted to bounce off
> > everyone.  Since the C++ library is taking longer than anticipated
> > (because of cross-platform slow down... mainly issues with Windows and
> > how much it sucks), I thought maybe we should knock out another MLT
> > powered release, and let's call this verison 1.4.
> >
> >
> > Here were a few things we could focus on:
> >
> >
> > Replace Goocanvas with Mutter (or another canvas)
> > - Goocanvas is giving us all sorts of trouble with performance (when
> > zoomed in) and not displaying the entire timeline, due to issues with
> > maximum width.  This is a MAJOR change, and will likely take a lot of
> > time to get right, but it could make a HUGE difference to the
> > performance and speed of OpenShot's timeline.
> >
> >
> > Relative File Paths
> > - This has been a long standing issue, and one that is easily fixed.
> >  The .OSP file only needs the relative path to the media, and at
> > run-time we locate the actual file path and use it.  This would make
> > moving projects easily, as well as sharing your project easier.  Easy
> > and low risk.
> >
> >
> > Improve SWIG Python bindings to MLT
> > - I have learned many things about SWIG in recent days, as well as the
> > ability to add generic Python try/catch around all MLT method calls.
> >  It works great with C++, but I've never tried it with C, so no
> > promises this will work.  But, best case, no more "segmentation
> > faults" from MLT that kill the Python interpretor.  Instead, generic
> > Python errors would be raised, and we could handle them in some better
> > way.
> >
> >
> > Improve ICON and THEME
> > - As much as I like the new timeline theme, I think we can improve it
> > a bit more.  This might go hand in hand with Mutter (or similar
> > canvas), but I want the clip representations to look as slick as
> > possible, spacing, play-head, etc... to all as good as possible.  Just
> > saying there are bound to be some small and significant changes we can
> > make to improve the look and feel.
> >
> >
> > Transitions and Effects and Titles
> > - We have many effects that are not being tapped into, including many
> > Frie0r effects, additional audio effects, color correcting effects,
> > etc...  We can also create a lot more transitions, or use the
> > community to generate many new transitions and title SVGs.  These are
> > low risk additions to any release, and add some fun for users.
> >
> >
> > In summary, the new C++ video editing library is coming along great,
> > but more slowly than I hoped.  So, a new release of OpenShot would
> > keep the momentum moving in our direction, and hopefully please our
> > users, fans, and critics. =)  What does everyone think about this
> > idea?
> >
> >
> > Thanks!
> > -Jonathan
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