kdenlive-devel at lists.sourceforge.net schrieb am 30.04.03 23:54:15: > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Reinhard Amersberger [mailto:protux at web.de] > > > > What do you think about using the ESC-key to toggle between > > the monitors? > > AVID use the ESC-key to activate the timeline, for example. > > I'm not convinced that ESC would be the best key to pick, it doesn't feel as > if it fits with the KDE UI guidelines very well. But perhaps another key > would make sense - TAB seems to be the obvious one?
But you convinced me! ;-)) Yes, TAB seems to be a good choice. 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. > Incidentally, I have some thoughts on how to add keyboard editing commands > to the timeline itself. I'll mention it here, tell me what you think : > > Have a keyboard "cursor" on the timeline. Like in a text edit session, this > can be moved forwards/backwards across the particular line, or it can be > moved up and down particular tracks. Pressing Ctrl-Left/Ctrl-Right moves you > to the end/beginning of the next clip. Selecting clips can be achieved via > the shift key - in other words, following the conventions of text editing. > > Press a key, and you 'grab' either the selected clips, or the clip the > cursor is currently over. Move the cursor and the clips follow. Ctrl can > still be used to zoom around. This sounds to be a very good idea. 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. > I need to put more thought into it before I decide if it's a useful way of > working. My idea is to have a complete or almost-complete keyboard based > way of editing for poor laptop users like myself :-), any > thoughts/suggestions, or alternative ways to do it? I've heard about a technique called JMB (libmustux) ........ hehehe - just again the old joke! ;-)) But serious ... I was on the way to call Luciano if it is possible to use the libmustux just like a plug-in, so user could activate it if wanted, but unfortunatelly he is offline at the moment since he running out of money. But this will change soon AFAIK. :-) 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). - Press U to reset the In/Out points. - Press P to play from In to Out point (the last two are stolen from Mainactor 5 ;-)) - Press shift+P to loop the region from In to Out point. - Go to the last edit and Press L to loop the last edit (some seconds before and some after) - 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've never been quite sure what the ALT GR key does :-) To be more precise - it's the key on the right side of the space bar and is used to access the third character. For example: Press '9' to print a '9' Press 'shift+9' to print a ')' Press 'Alt Gr+9' to print a ']' greetings Reinhard ______________________________________________________________________________ UNICEF bittet um Spenden fur die Kinder im Irak! Hier online an UNICEF spenden: https://spenden.web.de/unicef/special/?mc=021101
