On Monday 05 May 2003 10:27 am, Reinhard Amersberger wrote: > Hi, > > no comments about the editing ideas I mentioned? > Again some lost message, I've didn't received?
Apologies, I've been AFK for a couple of days :-) > Also it would be interestedly to know more about your editing ideas, > following text editing concepts. Because also for editing it is necessary > to have an overwrite and an insert mode, which will be toggled in text > editors by pressing the insert key (I'm at work right now, so I just check > this behaviour using windows WordPad. Did some Linux text editors - other > then vi or emacs ;-)) - following the same concept?). I'm not sure how far the analogy can be held before it becomes problematic. I can see some potential for wanting to insert a clip in the middle of another clip, in effect performing the equivalent of two razors, a delete and an insert in one go, but if it would have good accuracy, I am unsure. Of course, you could then resize it, etc. My biggest concern for the text edit-style idea is of how to choose which clip you want to insert in the first place. I'm still thinking about that one. > > Maybe some special view modes could be another possibillity. > > I mean having a standard view mode showing the source monitor and the > > timeline monitor, a trim mode, a capture mode, a play out mode, ..... So > > user simply have to choose one of this modes - maybe by the Fn keys - to > > re-arrange the interface for this special purposes very fast. I'm not sure I follow you, how does this differ from the implemented idea of layouts? > > I also would like to move the selected stuff more precise. > > The idea is to select a thing that should be moved by entering an exact > > value. Things could be clips, borders, markers, In/Out points, key > > frames, ...... Some examples: > > - Select one or some clips or just a part of a clip, then enter 10 and > > hit a key to move this 10 frames to right. - Select the right border of > > a clip, enter -1.10 and hit a key to move this clip border 1 second and > > 10 frames to the left side. You mean vi-style editing commands, right? It has crossed my mind ;-) > > I've heard about a technique called JMB (libmustux) ........ hehehe - > > just again the old joke! ;-)) :-) > > Also here comes some more ideas enhancing the In/Out and loop > > functionallity: > > > > - Enter a value and press the I or O key to move the In/out point (like > > the axamples above). Ok, I'm not sure how easy this is to do with the KDE shortcul/accelerator architecture but I'll take a look. > > - Press U to reset the In/Out points. Should be straight forward. > > - Press P to play from In to Out point Ok. > > - Press shift+P to loop the region from In to Out point. Well, when looping is implemented, sure ;-) > > - Go to the last edit and Press L to loop the last edit (some seconds > > before and some after) Not sure I understand what you mean with this one. Is the idea to let you have another attempt at setting the in/out points, or so that you can view the edit in relation to the timeline? > > - Select the In or Out point - maybe by shift+I and shift+O - and use the > > left and right arrow to move it by frames, just like the timeline cursor. > > > > - Press P+I to start a short play back (3 seconds ?) at the In point. > > > > - Press P+O to start a short play 'thru' the Out point I'll see what I can do. Stay tuned :-) Cheers, Jason -- Jason Wood Homepage : www.uchian.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
