<div dir="ltr"><div>Below are some comments which I believe are in-line with Ton's directions and may be helpful... These are from a thread I created on BA to try and help create concrete proposals and mockups for the VSE. </div>
<div><br></div><div>On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Ton Roosendaal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ton@blender.org" target="_blank" onclick="window.open('https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&tf=1&to=ton@blender.org&cc=&bcc=&su=&body=','_blank');return false;">ton@blender.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">- Make preview region/editor more useful in general<br>
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Scrub on 1 strip could only show that strip in the preview, for example. It could allow play there as a loop in 'strip time', without need to set ranges. Fast opengl playback of scenes should happen there too (is depsgraph related though, can be postponed).<br>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>One interesting (I think) suggestion from the thread is to <a href="http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?299319-Help-redesign-the-Blender-Video-Sequence-Editor!&p=2422179&viewfull=1#post2422179">extend Blender's TAB/edit-mode metaphor to VSE</a>. By selecting a single-strip and hitting TAB to enter edit mode on that strip, the rest of the VSE strips would become frozen and that single clip could be viewed/scrubbed in the preview region, slipped, in/out edited, split. This seems like it would fit well with blender's existing object/edit mode metaphor. </div>
<div> </div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">- Redesign strips to have better visual feedback and control over its workings.<br>
</blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I think of preview images, in/out points, and the strange "start/end still". Also strip splitting and merging should work perfectly.<br>
</blockquote><div> <br></div><div>I'm fond of a suggestion to make lightweight left-hand-side headers which allow collapse/expand per channel (somewhat like in graph-editor, dope-sheet, etc).. when collapsed a channel could possibly be even vertically shorter than it is now, and when expanded they would be taller to accommodate visuals (audio-waveform, preview images, etc) The current model is to toggle audio-waveform-visuals per-clip, which is both extra work to toggle it for several clips, and requires the clips remain the same vertical height always. </div>
</div><div><br></div><div>Other strip suggestions are:</div><div>- linked audio & video clips which stay together</div><div>- <a href="http://www.blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?299319-Help-redesign-the-Blender-Video-Sequence-Editor!&p=2420907&viewfull=1#post2420907">snapping</a> (mirror 3dview, snap-to-strip-endpoints/markers, shift-tab enable toggle)</div>
<div>- ability to view/edit a single animated attribute directly on an expanded strip. (for example, volume level)</div><div>- mute/unmute channel (standard "eye" on the left-header)</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
- Make threaded prefetch work again<br>
Simple thing... but someone who adds a strip should get it to play within the fastest possible time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Not sure if this is related or not, but turning on audio-waveform-visuals for a clip also stalls the UI while it's generated. Definitely will need to be fixed to add more visuals (and images)</div>
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- Make use of proxy and caches logical and visual<br>
This feature currently is very invisble and unclear. In none of the movie projects here I saw anyone use it... Also caching and memory use should be very well in control.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes! </div></div>
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