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

[Thomas Dinges]

Hi,
I agree with you that the workflow here is very bad and confusing.
We had a discussion about that a few months ago, nothing happened:
http://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-committers/2010-May/027723.html

This is imho a high priority, before we can do a stable 2.5 release.

Best regards,
Thomas

Am 23.01.2011 10:50, schrieb Damir Prebeg:
> 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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