[Bf-committers] Confusing Render, File Format and Encoding presets

Damir Prebeg blend.factory at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 10:50:35 CET 2011


Come on guys, are my proposals so bad that no one even bothers to
respond to them?

On 15 January 2011 00:13, Damir Prebeg <blend.factory at gmail.com> wrote:
> I find organization and interaction of render, file format and
> encoding presets under render options quite inconsistent and
> illogical. So here are my proposals:
>
> A) First smaller annoyances:
> Default render preset that we get when Blender is first started is not
> even listed under Render presets dropdown. Also, there's no option for
> aspect ratio locking while changing image dimensions.
> Is there any special reason why actual frame rate is calculated from
> framerate and framerate base and not simply one float value for
> framerate (eg. FPS: 23.976 instead of FPS:24 and Base:1.001)?
> And there's a bug: Select any Render preset, and then reload startup
> file (Ctrl+N). All values except selected Render preset name in that
> dropdown box will be reloaded.
>
> I propose that there should be "Default" entry by default,
> implementation of aspect ratio lock and one simple floating point
> framerate.
>
> B) It gets interesting with Output movie presets:
> I'm not an expert but I don't recall that I have seen or heard for
> true h.264, Xvid, Aci codec and Avi jpeg file types. Don't jump on me,
> I know that there are files with .264 or .xvid extensions but they are
> just "aliases" for .avi or .mp4 containers.
>
> I propose that Output dropdown list (regarding video file types)
> should contain only real file format extensions like mpg, avi, mkv,
> ogg, flv etc. and, of course, frame server option.
>
> C) And under the Encoding panel we have real fun:
> Here we have Presets dropdown that always says Presets and you never
> now witch preset is active. Not only that, here we have presets that
> are changing not only Encoding settings but they are also changing
> dimensions of movie. And there is File format dropdown although we
> (should) have already selected file format under Output panel.
>
> I propose that dropdown box Preset actually shows witch preset is
> active and if user changes some option active preset should
> automatically change to "Custom" (that should apply to all preset
> dropdowns in Blender).
> One Encoding preset shouldn't change any other setting than those
> under Encoding panel, and file format should be already selected in
> Output panel so there's no sense to have that dropdown duplicated.
>
> I wanted to try to reorganize that by my self in python, but Output
> items are hard-coded in Blender source so I can only hope that someone
> of devs understands what I'm talking about.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Damir
>


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