[Bf-committers] Sequencer feature requests from Plumiferos

[Matt Ebb]

Hi,

I think it's great that people are talking (and doing things!) about  
how to improve Blender's video sequence editing. Many of the things  
I've seen in this thread would be quite nice, like automatic snapping  
or transitions on overlapping strips, etc. There are a few other  
features like clip bins/instances that probably wouldn't be too  
difficult and would really bring Blender's editor forward.

I do think though, that someone should take a step back and think  
about things on a higher level and make some kind of design proposal  
for how things should work, since right now it seems that it can  
potentially get quite messy and weird, with people making feature  
requests and adding on functionality bit by bit, without thinking  
clearly about how things should work in a general sense. An example  
of this is the 'insert between', which is a confusing feature that  
seems to be there to work around confusing complexity in how parts of  
the sequence editor currently works.

I'd really like to see some kind of design concept/mockup/proposal,  
some research of features and workflow in other editors and what they  
get right or wrong, or at least some kind of plan for how the  
sequence editor should evolve, including what sort of functionality  
is feasible to potentially add, what is out of scope, and plans for  
how to allow for this functionality in the interface. I personally  
wouldn't mind at all if some of how the sequence editor works right  
now gets scrapped in favour of a new design that can better  
accommodate the sort of nice modern features and editing  
functionality that people would like, but in order to do that, there  
needs to be some kind of design guideline.  Otherwise there's the  
danger of it ending up as patch upon patch upon patch that isn't very  
fun to work with.

cheers,

Matt


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Matt Ebb . matt at mke3.net . http://mke3.net



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