another option: see images2dv-gui http://www.kinodv.org/dcforum/dcforum?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=677&mesg_id=677
On Dec 22, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Gerhard H?bner wrote: > After I found out that Blender has a dedicated video sequence > editor, I > thought it is worth the effort to try making animatesd slide shows > with > it. > > The good news: it works, sort of, the GUI is not that bad. It is > possible to load pictures, stretch them to the desired sequence > length, > insert per-picture and picture-to-picture transition effects, > including > the one that is known elswhere as "Ken Burns", i.e. zooming and > panning > in the picture... > > The bad news: Blender downsamples every imported image to the selected > video resolution. When I zoom into an image using the transform > effect, > Blender does NOT used the original image quality but just inflates the > pixels of the previously downsampled image!!! This ruins the whole > function and makes it practically useless. My big multi-megapixel- > images > just get squeezed to nothing and then inflated into an ugly pixelated > mess. > > How sad, 10 hours of work wasted just because someone who coded this > function didn't understand the basic mathematics of scaling, viewports > and linear transformations... > > So I ended up discarding yet another tool that looked nice at first > but > failed due to some very simple things not correctly implemented. On > the > list of failures are also: > - Jahshaka (spent several days to get it working, no hope) > - Cinelerra: Editing simply doesn't work, crashes and hangs > frequently, > looks abandoned. > - Kino: solution looking for a problem > - Slcreator: nice idea to provide GUI frontend to DVD-Slideshow, but > loves crashing and wasting memory and is written in some Visual Basic > derivative that no one else wants to develop with... why didn't that > guy > use python, perl or TCL? > > Again, the mathematics and code are simple and Kdenlive looks like the > right place where to put it but is anyone still working on it or has > it > been abandoned? > > > As long as the programming interface for filters in Kdenlive permitted > working on the full-res image and not the downsampled stuff, it > would be > easy to avoid the above-mentioned problem. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Kdenlive-devel mailing list > Kdenlive-devel at lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/kdenlive-devel
