[Bf-funboard] Modernizing the Video Sequencer Editor UI

[David McSween]

Paulo, have you also seen this patch from Jehan
https://developer.blender.org/T34064

It provides a new way to interact with the media in the preview window
(much like the translate addon does). Allowing the user to scale and crop
dynamically. Sadly I don't have the resources to build my own Blender with
patches. Taken together, your UI concepts and the interaction patch would
really improve the VSE without breaking the BF approved mould. That is the
preference to keep it as a tool for "assemblage of rendered scenes" or for
"prototyping storyboards".


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Paulo José Amaro <pauloup at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm Paulo Jose, from Brazil, and I want to share some ideas and suggestions
> about the Video Sequencer Editor's user interface.
>
> I sent my first message to bf-commiters mails list and had very good
> suggestions there. Then someone told me that here could be a better place
> to discuss this. So I'm copying my message here.
>
> I'm being a Blender user for many years and the main functionality I use is
> the VSE. Along the years, I used many tools, from VirtualDub to Adobe
> Premiere. Blender is by far the most complete and powerful open source
> software to work with, its flexibility is the keyword here. But there are
> some areas of VSE that still can be improved.
>
> Taking advantage of the new Tabs feature which is being implemented in
> Blender UI and the current moving to reorganizing things in a better way, I
> put my efforts to study how to improve Blender's VSE UI.
>
> In the past days I prepared a little Demo of a modernized UI for VSE, made
> with HTML+CSS+JS to simulate the Blender UI and some of its behavior. It's
> not a "lets throw everything away", but most like "lets move these options
> to here, those to there". The Demo includes a step by step guide to every
> change, explaining my motivation about them, so I don't get longer in this
> mail.
>
> You can access it here: Blender Sequencer Video Editor -
> Demo<
> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5107072/blender-vse-2014/sequencer.html
> >
>
> The changes are restrict to Properties Panel. You can compare it with the
> current UI by clicking on "How was this screen" button. There are some few
> new features, but most of them are already in another parts of Blender and
> they are not out of scope.
>
> I would like very much to know your opinion. And I'll keep to work on this
> based on your feedback. My intent is to try to modernize VSE, starting by
> the Properties Panel, then going to menus and so on.
>
> I'm not a developer, but I put myself available to help with design tasks
> and maybe coding too if needed. I'm experienced with using Inkscape, coding
> with Python and a little of C. I just need some guidance.
>
> I'm sorry for any misspelling, English is not my main language, but I love
> to learn! I hope to get familiar with this mail listing and actively
> participate of it. :-)
>
> Someone said that some development may be happening already to VSE. I did
> know nothing about it, and I would like to know more and to get involved,
> if it's possible. I'm open to adapt my proposal to the current development,
> or help some another way you may think I should.
>
> Thank you for your time and I hope my efforts may be useful somehow.
>
> Cheers,
> ~Paulo
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