[Bf-committers] S-DNA and Changes

[Peter Schlaile]

Hi Leo,

>> Regarding your interface prototype: your interators should take a float
>> increment parameter. (There isn't really a well defined "next" frame in
>> float precision scene-rendering...)

>I decided against that due to the complications it resulted in - mostly
>because it became very difficult to get all frames to align in time when
>round-off errors may affect the float cfra parameter depending on how it
>was calculated. (It was also difficult for movie clip sources, again due
>to rounding errors, where you could end up on the wrong frame.) It was
>easier to just pretend, in the VSE, that each sequence was continuous,
>but sampled at a fixed rate. (So the "frame rate" should really be a
>"field rate".) That way, the only time we risk that the frames don't
>line up is when we do framerate conversion - and everyone kinda expects
>them to not line up then.

uhm, ouch. OK, do it differently, tell the next()-iterator the 
absolute next-cfra not the increment, but please make it a float, because...

> I'm just guessing regarding the float cfra parameter: Is it for motion blur?
... it's not about motion blur, it's about retiming.

If CFRA is float, you can retime a scene strip afterwards and have it 
render subframe precision frames (read: extrem slowdowns), which are 
done the real way, not using fake interpolation.

Cheers,
Peter

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Peter Schlaile