Hi Jason, concerning support for effects, we need to modify VEML a bit. if you check out the current HEAD of piave, you'll find a file
examples/textmaster.veml This syntax can actually be parsed and rendered by the version in the 03-DEVEL branch. It was meant to test the text generator and also as an example for how the syntax could look like. It is only a video effect (no audio) and only an effect with one input, but it is probably straight forward to guess what the whole thing would look like. I am much in favor of supporting SMIL to pave the road for the kino guys, but we will still need VEML for a while. One point why I am in favor of doing this is, that this will help to seperate the _renderer_ from the _player_ parts of piave. This is a good thing since I eventually would like to drop as many of the player stuff as possible. There are enough good players out there. Cheers, Rolf -- Rolf.Dubitzky at physi.uni-heidelberg.de
