On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutanttur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11 January 2017 at 20:12, Mattias Andrée <maand...@kth.se> wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I'm working a non-graphical video editor. However, I need a > > proper name for the project, and I have no idea what to call > > it, so I'm taking suggestions from you. > > > > A non-graphical video editor may sound a bit insane. There > > will be a graphical tool for finding locating frames, but > > that is as graphical as it gets, as far as I can foresee at > > the moment. The reasons for a non-graphical video editor > > are: > > > > • It's source control friendly and it's easy for a user to > > resolve merge conflicts and identify changes. > > > > • Rendering can take a very long time. With this approach, > > the user can use Make to only rerender parts that have > > been changes. > > > > • No room for buggy GUI:s, which currently is a problem on > > the large video editors for Linux. > > > > • Less chance that the user makes a change by mistake > > without noticing it, such as moving a clip in the editor > > by mistake instead of for example resizing. > > > > • Even old crappy computers can be used for large projects. > > > > • Very easy to utilise command line image editors for modify > > frames, or to add your own tools for custom effects. > > > > Currently there is no support for audio, I'm not sure it's > > actually needed, but I will investigate this later. If it's > > added, I will only add tools for audio, it will not be for > > audio effects, such tools already exists and are not needed. > > > > The video editor uses it's own format, it is a simply container > > with the metadata: number of frames, width, heights, and > > pixel format, followed by a magic value and the video in a > > raw format. Currently the only support pixel format is > > CIE XYZ with alpha expressed in `double`:s, but in the future > > I may also add support for `float`:s for faster computations. > > So the format is not portable between machines. > > > > > > Mattias Andrée > > How about? > > sve? > > suckless video editor. > simple video editor > small video edtior > > or if you're hardcore > > fsve > > f***ing small video editor > f***ing suckless video editor > f**ing simple video editor >
How about `Tasveer'. It actually means pictorial representation of information and it can alternatively be abbreviated to tsvr - Teletyped Simple Video Revision[er] (or something else with R. I honestly feel `Revision[er]' is cooler than `editor' ;) ). Regards, Zohaib
