[Bf-committers] "Blender, an appraisal from a first time user"

[Jacob Merrill]

In 2.8 would it be possible to make the redo/undo system very robust,
enough to be able to open a tutorial that is like a saved redo cache? Maybe
with some way to open note cards at each 'redo'?

This way a tutorial could be a file you run in blender,

Just another odd thought,
Thanks again Ton and the gang,
Jacob Merrill.
On Jan 3, 2016 11:16 AM, "Xavier Thomas" <xavier.thomas.1980 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think the user is refering to the message you recieve when opening a non
> blender file with the main blender "Open..." (wm.open_mainfile) operator
> and not when opening it in the image editor or clip editor or compositor or
> sequencer (most first time users don't even know what those are).
>
> This is a very common misshap for new user wating to edit video, they open
> Blender, go to the menu File->Open-> deactive the extension filtering and
> open an avi.
>
> In this case Blender does not "crash to the desktop" but the import fails
> gives an error message "File format not supported in filename.avi" which
> gives the user the impression that importing the video fails. When in fact
> he did not try to import a video but to open a blend file.
>
>
>
> 2016-01-03 10:53 GMT-02:00 Sergey Sharybin <sergey.vfx at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Crash should not happen, the file is to be submitted to the bug tracker.
> >
> > The file might not be supported by FFmpeg, in this case it should be
> > relatively easy to improve the error message. It's also possible the file
> > is simply encoded by proprietary codec which we can never enable for our
> > builds.
> >
> > In any case, it'll help a lot having such file reported to the tracker.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here is a friendly mail from a Linux user I had. He failed using
> Blender
> > > for a simple video task.
> > > http://download.blender.org/institute/firsttime.pdf
> > >
> > > I'm happy that KDEnlive worked for him, and I explained to him that
> > > Blender is an advanced 3D creation suite which you have to invest time
> in
> > > to understand it well.
> > >
> > > Nevertheless, three lessons we can learn from this:
> > >
> > > 1) Meaningless tooltips
> > >
> > > The "System info" menu has as tooltip "Generate system info". That's
> > > insufficient. It leaves very relevant information to the notifier
> button
> > > that's very easy too miss.
> > >
> > > 2) Meaningless error message
> > >
> > > "Report Error. File format is not supported in...".
> > >
> > > What is that supposed to mean? Errors can easily give more details,
> > > especially mentioning the function or operator that throws the error
> > and/or
> > > about the context or editor it is in.
> > >
> > > 3) Blender support section: Tutorials.
> > >
> > > http://www.blender.org/support/tutorials/
> > >
> > > There is no beginner tutorial on blender.org for newbies how to
> quickly
> > > get a video edited.
> > > Anyone knows one? Then I'll add it there.
> > >
> > > -Ton-
> > >
> > > --------------------------------------------------------
> > > Ton Roosendaal  -  ton at blender.org   -   www.blender.org
> > > Chairman Blender Foundation - Producer Blender Institute
> > > Entrepotdok 57A  -  1018AD Amsterdam  -  The Netherlands
> > >
> > >
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> >
> > --
> > With best regards, Sergey Sharybin
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