[Bf-committers] Need summer of code advice
Michael Robinson
fractalgfx at gmail.com
Fri Mar 16 23:55:22 CET 2007
Hi,
I could use some more advice from SOC proposal. I've put together a
long list of possible improvements to the video sequence editor.
Several of the big items are:
offline (resolution independent) editing
EDL import/export
Better integration with the compositor
Basic multichannel audio mixing
I also want to implement an alternative to using IPO curves, by
rendering sequences a colored gradients. The effects can be
controlled by grabing handles inside the sequence. I made a very
crude mock up:
http://www.apeinspace.com/blender_blend.png
I have also identified a lot of small to trivial tasks. For example,
the sequence editor does not have markers, which is extremely
inconsistent with the rest of the application. It only took me a
couple of hours to get markers working, but these little detials add
up.
It seems that most developers feel that a SOC project should be one
big singular task. I find this a bit discouraging, because the
sequencer provides more small to moderate size tasks than I could
complete.
PS:
I have since come to the conclusion that given the state of Blender's
audio system, channel mixing would be much harder than I originally
thought.
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