[Bf-committers] compositor-effect in sequencer

[Frédéric van der Essen]

 From an artist POV, this sounds really nice.

What i'm asking myself is how will the preview work ?
It would be nice if it could keep the functionality of the current
compositor and output a preview of the selected effect strip at
current frame to an image window.
(the preview would use the view node and real effect the composite one )

about more than two input nodes : i don't think that it would be too 
confusing,
regular node compositor does much worse things :)


PS : a big thank you for the work you're doing, it's awesome :)

Peter Schlaile wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I played a little bit with the compositor this afternoon, and collected
> the following ideas:
>
> >From the perspective of the sequencer the compositor enables us to create
> custom-effects. I propose, to generate an additional compositor-pipeline
> "Sequencer-Effect-Nodes" (as an addition to material and "regular"
> compositors) that has in _addition_ to the "regular" compositor
>
> - two input-nodes (will serve as input of the effect filter)
> - one output-node (will serve as output of the effect filter) as well as
> - one or more Sequencer-IPO-input-nodes (one in a first stage
>   implementation).
>
> It should be possible to save these pipelines by name (just like the
> materials) and have these pipelines show up in the effect-plugin window of
> the sequencer by name.
>
> That way, one can build filter-pipelines and use them several times on the
> same sequencer timeline. They can then all be controlled by IPOs. (In a
> second stage, one should be able to add more IPO-channels to have a more fine
> grained control of the parameters in the compositor-effect).
>
> One could add more input nodes, but I do not think, that this makes things
> very transparent to the user of the final effect-filter in the sequencer.
> (Nevertheless, it would be very easy to add this feature afterwards...)
>
> Please let me know, what you think about it.
>
> Greetings,
> Peter
>
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> Peter Schlaile <peter at schlaile dot de>
>
>
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