[Bf-committers] VSE movie and other improvements

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Sat Feb 6 22:23:24 CET 2016


Finally got my new video sequence editor tutorial done! I was going for 5
minutes but ended up with 12:14 minutes. Hope you like it!
Douglas E Knapp

On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Joshua Leung <aligorith at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ah crap. I'll take a look into some options about what we can do here in
> the meantime, and will be around on IRC for another 2 hours or so :)
>
> Regards,
> Joshua
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 11:36 PM, Thomas Beck <software at plasmasolutions.de>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi Joshua,
> >
> > I saw that you already committed a "fix" for the missing "frame rate
> > update" on import. This may be great for first time users and even great
> > when you only have one strip to import, but in our massive VSE projects
> > here at Plasmasolutions it really raises our error level. In every VSE
> > project (40GB data / 120 clips on average) we have many different frame
> > rates because some strips are meant to "just play as is" others are meant
> > to be slow motion clips and so on. Your option makes it so that all our
> > slowmo clips cause Blender to change the frame rate - which is
> catastrophic
> > as this causes aligned audio strips to overlap even when the scene frame
> > rate is reset to the original value (just happened to us).
> >
> > Even disabling this option in the file browser is only a temporary
> solution
> > as the option is lost on a Blender restart and not easy to unset per
> > default in all PCs at our studio. If it "has" to be an option then it
> would
> > be much better to have it in the user prefs where we could globally
> disable
> > it.
> >
> > I'll be on IRC later on...
> >
> > CU Thomas
> >
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> > 2016-01-08 8:58 GMT+01:00 Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu>:
> >
> > > On Fri, Jan 08, 2016 at 04:52:23PM +1300, Joshua Leung wrote:
> > > > 1) Add a "Fit to Frame" for images, instead of only "stretch to fit"
> > > > or "crop"
> > >
> > > This would be great. We might even have a longer list of possible
> > > options, similar to what's offered when setting a desktop background.
> > >
> > > > Since you're dealing with a lot of these images, and not all of them
> > > > are horizontal or vertical only, it's much more of a pain to have to
> > > > deal with Transform strips to get things in order, while "stretch to
> > > > fit" is really ugly  (imagine, portrait photos, stretched out to be
> > > > short and wide).
> > >
> > > There is a strip option already that prevents this, so you don't need
> > > a transform strip here. However, it's not really clear that this is
> > > its effect, and it's only a boolean (i.e. not a choice between all the
> > > options you might want to have).
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Sybren A. Stüvel
> > >
> > > http://stuvelfoto.nl/
> > > http://stuvel.eu/
> > >
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