Professionals Video Editors Only Please

I'm not employed as an editor but as one of the guys who solve editor problems, Avid, FCP, premier (learning bones and flint/flame at the moment). I do do some editing. so i'll throw out my 2 cents.

DV - is not a standard worth using for pro work. as far as i understand (still testing though) it not truely constraining us to DV any way. for home use its awesome pros shouldn't touch it.
Color - keeping the color space is essential, but not just in the image but in in the blacks and whites as well. we also need color correction, cause if you on the sounds stage and move your camera, tones change, and its worse every were else.
flx/ale - if you plan on taking your footage through something like IQ, flame, flint, bones, telecine, these will make your life much(!) simpler. especially if you plan on finishing in 2k/4k etc.
color bars - essential if you plan on sending to tv, most station still require them and if you balance the color, it will make any colorist job easer to just balance from the color bars
color safe filter - to block excess luma in whites, as well as a test to warn you if frames fail.
Time code - i haven't had a chance to test this. but original time code needs to be maintainable be able to burn this in easily is essential. something directors/studios ask for all the time.
- exporting and maintaining time codes from time line - again i have not tested this
chroma green - I look but haven't tested chroma green, i only saw chromakey blue....
Track clean - often more amateurish editors use a large amount of track for an edit. more than three is seldom needed and can give us headaches in post, especially going back to film or what ever. auto clean would be nice.
sub tracks - i haven't tried this but a function from FCP i like is to create complex scenes on a separate track and join them to the main track.
PAL 16:9 - 1024x576... haven't tested but just put it on the list.
blue ray - need to test the blue ray support... basicly handles 35mb/s mpeg

Extra's - explanation on how to use red (red cine / r3d) in your work flow, XD Cams as well. as this is possible.

well thats my 2 cents for now ...

Today's my last day at my second 5 month internship as editor so I should be on my way to being a professional.
Haven't had or taken the time to play with Kdenlive recently.

Biggest feature requests I can think of right now would be...

Stability.
Professional editing doesn't mix with audio stuttering and other performance issues. Compatibility with some sort of MXF standard would be nice (GPLed of course).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material_Exchange_Format

Audio meter.
Being able to level decibels by sight, not only by hearing.

Color Mode.
Tool to effectively and easily color correct clips with luma/RGB/hue/etc. settings and Y waveform. And not having to select each effect for each clip on the timeline before setting it's value for one. Maybe this is an interface issue.. can we start a professional interface thread? :D

Anyway I know there's activity from developers in exploring and pushing standards & code used by other FLOSS software/communities and this is important. It should lead to a better future for a more widely developed Kdenlive/Kdenlive components. Or so I hope and that's my 2 eurocents.

my reply AlanJames1987 wish list.
defiantly will be useful, but i would like to see collaboration between kdenlive and existing products. all the progs you list are awesome but inmany ways need to be separate.

- Script Writing – Equal to Final Draft

- Video Editing – Equal to Final Cut
we hoping for Kdenlive to become this

- Image Editing – Equal to Photoshop
my moneys on gimp at the moment and it is a very effective tool and very pro integration with other packages so long as it doesn't hinder it functionality or development.

- 2D and 3D Tracking – Equal to Mocha, Boujou

- 3D Image Creation – Equal to Maya
Blender 3d defiantly the leading package here. though, like maya, cut first then import videos the best way to go.

- Compositing – Equal to Shake, Nuke, After Effects etc.
blender, cinepaint depending on your needs

- Sound Editing – Equal to Soundtrack, Protools etc.
some good ones but nothing that blows me away. audacitys in the lead i think.

- Music Creation – Equal to Finale

- Color Correction – Equal to (Apple) Color

- Final Output Compression – Equal to (Apple) Compressor, (Adobe) Media Encoder
ffmpeg, but none of the interface I'm blown a way with... (?avi synth?)

- Disk Creation – Equal to Encore, DVD Studio
qdvdauthor, best so far

- Cross Platform Video Player, Codec, and Container – What Quicktime tries to be, but only comes close to.
Matroska, though improved editing and menu support is still in the pipe-line. Codec wise, snow seems to be on track. beating h264 is going to be hard as most of the top people in that field will copyright but oggs looking good.

got no idea what the future holds but if you take packages like blender, there's a lot of power in the community. but i would love to see integration between them and the rest of the visual pipe line.

i would be interested to hear what other people are using.

Professional editor, doing it for a living. Also director for 16mm film work. I work heavily with color correction and rely heavily on "magic bullet looks" (no secondary but the primary is unbeatable) Much much much cleaner color work than final cuts color. Nothing worse than doing all that fine color work then exporting and finding it shifted your blacks and twisted your reds not to mention adding yet another round of compression. Anyhow, what does an editing application need for a professional. Almost nothing. I use final cut and premiere but I won't touch any of their stock effects. I don't even do dissolves with their stock dissolves. I put it in After Effects and use optical dissolves. What I need and what is holding me back from getting rid of that darn windows side to my PC at home (will be using mac at work indefinitely I'm sure) is an editor that can do basic masks and/or mattes. Can cut accurately and buglessly. It should have non-destructive 32-bit floating point color operations. And charts and graphs. I want to see rgb parades, waveforms, vector scopes the works. From what I understand, and correct me if I'm wrong I'm not a programmer, the API effects that kdenlive is using now can't handle color precision. Proper color as everyone who edits professionally knows is about a gagillion times more important than a high pixel count. I'd rather have good color tools and work in SD than lumpy color tools and work with HD. I would produce a much higher quality picture at the end of the day. I feel like titling and many other things can be pulled in from outside sources as opposed to reinventing the wheel. Is it possible to integrate Audacity, Qdvdauthor, Blender and programs already out there that are if not fully functional close enough that with the added spotlight the kdenlive project would bring them they would develop into nice solid linux style programs. Or is it possible to at least create common bridges like EDL's and the like? So far I've just been sitting on the sidelines waiting for either this project or lumiera to develop further and am very eager to produce a piece of work that can win some awards in the festival circuit that had a complete post production life inside FOSS. So what do I really need out of an editor. I need really good color correction tools.

If you don't know what I'm talking about with good color work watch this:

http://rebelsguide.com/dl/coloristaFCP.mov

It explains things much better than I can with words.

aleckt wrote: I would love it if Kdenlive was able to recognize an Alpha channel embedded in a Quicktime, or AVI.

MLT 0.4.4 and Kdenlive 0.7.5 should support Quicktime Animation with an alpha channel. I believe it should work for other formats where FFmpeg supports the alpha channel. See this for my demo of that feature:
http://www.kdenlive.org/tutorial/alpha-compositing-quicktime-animation

Alan, your idea is very good, but for me it's look like a dream ...

Look at the time needed just for have kdenlive .. so try to imagine the time for a complete integration suite ..

so you can begin your help in debugging .. you will see the time needed for a good soft ...

nyme

From a programing aspect color is currently integrated through the FreiOr, there site is down right now so i can confirm color depth, but i think it is above 8bits per color channel (RGBA). so that should make it possible to have smooth color controls. as long as they user interfaced correctly.

AlanJames1987 - its not a dream, its merely the next step. yes kdenlive needs work, and so do many of the other packages, but integration need to be thought of. I'm no great programmer but user interface is important and often lacks in Linux, but more important is integration on a deeper level. we need to be able to take video/audio/frames into any other package easily. This needs to be defined and clearly. there a number of projects that do this in different ways, for instance http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verse_protocol. the up side of a project like verse is that its network based meaning that the colorist and sound engineer could be working on it at the same time and if the director changed a cut the would have instant access to the change. someone working on the DVD authoring would not have to wait till every one else is finished to start as he would have active access as well. especially if footage could be marked in a unselected/selected/stared/incut manor. If anything i would like to see more incorporation of this type of technology.

uni-verse (http://www.uni-verse.org/) is unfortunately restricted to 3d at present but if that could Incorporated a fuller work flow i think it would be perfect, especially if versions of renders could be maintained.

MillionMonkeys - EDL looks quit possible, form the structure of Kdenlive. though I'm looking at the structure of an edl at the moment cus i have no idea from a technical point of view.

ultimately, if we being serious we need to look at 16bit per channel, 10-bits not bad, but there are those who will need 16bit as professionals. 12bit is great on a 2k image (http://www.max-t.com/press/cmn/2009/14apr2009.html) and the machines do that already but if you goes as high as 4k, you going to need a minimum of 16bit per channel. that comes down to a desition if they seriously want to include pros or not.

4K is essential, red cameras are using it to shoot at even now. and if you need to composite, rotoscoping or other special effects, it nice to have those kind of options.

I would like to see a deeper level of integration than simply comandline between programs. this means a separate tool that talk not just on one machine but across a network, so colorist, editors, rotoscopers, animators, audio are all in touch real time with the same project. this would be bigger than just Kdenlive....

@AlanJames1987: Now that Kdenlive incorporates a complete set of features, it is very likely that the development team will follow some directions from one release to another. But not all directions at once.

For the next releases, we plan GPU decoding, a better H264 support (timestamps). Then, there are other directions like a better color management. Maybe a better keyframe and effect GUI.

All this demands efforts and a lot of development time.

And of course stability is a major issue.

Also, don't forget that Kdenlive is MLT user interface. At each step, you need to ask yourself "How can I interface this feature with MLT and which library do I need". This is mostly a free-software hunt for other free software libraries.

Last of all and pardon me if I am clear as possible:

We NEVER ever look at commercial products. There is plenty of free software to look at. For example showfoto for effects and color management.

If you keep on taking about this and this software which sometimes release patents, we may become very upset. This kind of information "Kdenlive should look like product X" is of no help. We do not copy closed software and do not intend to do so.

Understand we don't even run Windows and I bought a Mac OS X computer for compilation only. But only recently. So a better focussed description of needed features is better. Describe what you need, not what Product X provides.

Don't even make sceenshots of commercial products. We will not read them.

Is that clear?

It was with big eyes I followed this discussion and I considered it to be an important step in the KDENLIVE development.

The big question is (or was) to me:
How do we make the professionals take the step into the open source community?

Well, there is a reason (or many reasons) why video editors still work with the big commercial programs and I think devteams should listen to them, even if they don't like it or if the wish list becomes to far fetched. Especially if the professionals even comes freely to talk about it and when they really would like to work in an open source suit.
And if a professional video editor explains a feature it is (to me) pretty natural to show what they mean by explaining a feature they do work with every day. And as the Video editing products within the open source world is very thin, they must show features from commercial products. And I didn't interpreted it as a request to copy/paste a commercial feature, more to show what's, to them, really needed in a editing program.

ahwell... not much to do now. I hope some professional editors stays in these forums and make feature requests, even though they need to do it more subtle now.

"I feel that KDENLIVE is going to be a very good product one day but only by listening to and integrating the needs of a user. If the developers decide it is to hard to create a needed feature necessary to a user then they should expect that users will leave them and use a product that does have that feature."

Sure kdenlive is not a jail .... the user coud also learn how to program and help the other developpers ..i know it's not easy but we are talking about dreams ... and mans need a lot of work to walk on the moon ...

+1 Dan.

Hello,

Please excuse my terrible English, sometimes in this post I will be rude but i's because I don't how to say things in the good way. (Jean-Michel, if you have time maybe we could talk in French at phone or via skype. If you want we can also met)

I'm a French movie director and I know a lot the industry. I worked as editor and know all the existing application. I worked too as a cinema teacher with kids and teenagers.

The only reason why I still have Windows in my computer is my need of a good NLE. For the moment, I can't switch to Kdenlive because of a lake of basic features. This week, for an educative project, I propose to the people I work with to use Kdenlive. Because of those missing features we couldn't and they decide to buy 5 FCP licences. That was very disappointing for me because I want to teach kids how to make movie with no money. I don't want to teach them how to work with expensive not free applications.

I really think that Kdenlive could be a killer apps : the engine is efficient, the design is clear, etc. but it can't be use by professionals right know.

As a professional, I'm not (really) interested by color management, compositng and effects. I just want to be productive and accurate in editing and to be able to communicate with the other actors of the post-production. I have to warn you that I will compare Kdenlive with Avid Media Composer, FCP and Premiere. I don't propose you to copy those, maybe you can imagine how to be as productive than those 3 applications. But I have to explain you what they have and you haven't.

So, after those long preliminaries (a French specialty) here are my suggestions.

I) Productivity in editing.

1) Separation between video and audio.
For a pro, sound and images are always different. We want to see immediately where is the video and where is the audio. But we want also see i we loose the syncro or not. In FCP, you cant easily link and unlike audio. In avid, when you loose the syncro, you cant read, in the track, for how many image. Actually, in kdenlive, the split audio function is nice, but i would like the possibility to choose "alway split" in the settings.

2) Nice layer logic.

As said in this post http://kdenlive.org/forum/change-timeline-logic, the layer logic should be this one :

Vn..
V4
V3
V2
V1
-
A1
A2
A3
A4
An..

That's the way the editors use to think, think today and will alway think because V1 and A1-2 are the main tracks. Other are complement and need to be far of the center.

For now I will use this for all my examples.

3) Always know who goes where.

We want to chose witch track of the player goes in witch track of the recorder. For example :

---------
- | V2 |
V1 | V1 |
---------
- | A1 |
- | A2 |
A1 | A3 |
A2 | A4 |
---------

Source V1 goes in V1 recorder.
Source A1 goes in A3 recorder.
Source A2 goes in A4 recorder.

Another example :

---------
- | /V2 | Inactive V2
V1 | /V1 | Source V1 try to go in inactive V1
---------
- | /A1 | Inactive A1
- | /A2 | Inactive A2
A1 | A3 | Source A1 goes in A3 recorder.
A2 | A4 | Source A2 goes in A4 recorder.
---------

In this case, you just put the sound in 2 track and don't touch a the other tracks.

4) 3 point editing. VERY IMPORTANT.
edit: See also 3 point editing —Granjow

3 point editing is the key. A NLE where you can't do 3 point editing can't pretend to be use by professionals. You can imagine other logic but : 1) why reinvent the wheel 2) the editors love 3 point editing 3) (for the moment) Other logic are slower and less permisive.

So, what is 3 point editing ? I'll try to explain but it's not easy for me in English.

This is the content of my source and my timeline (for the examples, I will use only one layer), each letter in a frame :

SOURCE | V1 | 1234567890
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Case 1 :
Now, i put a mark IN and a mark OUT in my source (to say, i want this part of the rush) an Mark IN in the timeline (3 marks -> 3 point)

SOURCE | V1 | 123 i 456 o 7890

TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF i GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Now I have 2 solution (corresponding in 2 buttons in the interface or 2 shortcuts in my keyboard).

a) I press REPLACE : my selection of source go after mark IN and replace the same length.

TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF-456-JKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

a) I press INSERT : my selection of source go after mark IN and everything after it move.

TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF-456-GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Case 2 :

SOURCE | V1 | 123 i 456 o 7890
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF o GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

REPLACE :
TIMELINE | V1 | ABC-456-GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

INSERT :
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF-456-GHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

Case 3 :

SOURCE | V1 | 123 i 4567890
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF i GHIJK o LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

REPLACE :
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF-45678-LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

INSERT : NO

Case 4 :
SOURCE | V1 | 123456789 o 0
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF i GHIJK o LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

REPLACE :
TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF-56789-LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

INSERT : NO

I hope you will see all the advantages of this logic: rapidity (just one click or key is quicker than drag'n drop), precision (I know exactly what's happens and why) liberty for the editor (for the moment, in kdenlive I can't put a clip between two).

5) Cut and lift in the timeline. VERY IMPORTANT.

No need for words to explain this but a letter drawing (# is a hole in the editing).

TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF i GHIJK o LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

CUT : TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEFLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
LIFT : TIMELINE | V1 | ABCDEF#####LMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

6) Trim mode.

I don't know the English word for "raccord" witch is the cut between 2 clips en the timeline.

Well, with a trim mode you cat adjust with a lot of precision the "raccord". For example you can say : I want 2 more images more in the left clip and 3 less in the right one.

Do you need a drawing ?

7) Many editing in one project.

We need many different sequences in the project for different reasons :

- We need to keep older version of the same movie and, the possibility to get back just one part who was better finaly.
- For a long movie I can edit the different scenes in a separate sequence and, after, edit the sequence together.

When I put a sequence in the player I don't expect to get it like a complete movie (like in FCP) but like an editing with many clip (like in avid).

8) Shortcuts for everything.

In Avid, every key of my keyboard is a shortcut and I can change them easily. A good editor barely touch is mouse.
The more important are INSERT, REPLACE, CUT, LIFT and J-K-L that should work like in this post : http://kdenlive.org/forum/change-way-j-k-l-buttons-work

II) Communicate with the other actors.

1) With the color-guy (how do you call him ?) and the laboratory.

I won't do the color stuff in my editing computer : It's not my stuff ("Etalonneur" is a difficult job) and I won't paid for RAID hard drive and DLP screen necessary for a good job.

So I need the possibility of "offline" work and to provide to the lab a list of my editing decision. That's the definition of an EDL. So I need EDL, OMF, AAF... something that allow me to have a conformation of my work.

2) Communicate with the sound editor.

Between Avid or FCP and Pro Tools or Nuedo we have OMF.
We need something between Kdenlive and Ardour. That would be a first step.

But I scared to need also to export to Pro Tools for a long time : every sound editor I know paid a lot for Pro Tools and they won't switch to Ardour for me.

Maybe tomorrow if Ardour become the reference it should be.

So, one more time, OMF or AAF.

III) Small little stuffs.

1) Fullscreen in my second monitor.

2) Categorization for effects.

3) Easy access of fade.

Fade should be possible between 2 clips in the same track. Doing a fade is not compositing (for most editors).

3) GUI profiles.

Screen organization for editing, for recording, for titling, etc.

By the way, all the philosophy of editing is to compare 2 images : the one I have and the one I what to add. So the default set should be with 2 monitors (clip an project).

OK, I think that's it for the moment. Sorry for this very long (and hard to read) post. I repeat, I really like kdenlive and hope I can help you to understand professionals needs to make it even better.

Romuald

For my part, I don't care too much if Kdenlive has the sum of all the features of other software packages considered professional and mimicks each and every one's workflow model.

Is a BetaCam less professional than a 35mm Arriflex? Is a KEM less professional than a Moviola? Is Blender less professional than Maya? Depends.

The lack of a standard format for exchange between media editing software (the second point you make in your last post) is the real issue here, and the one that makes Kdenlive (and e.g. Blender, when it comes to EDL.s) feel less "pro" than their proprietary competition. They may not be open source, but when it comes to interoperability with other applications (be it of the same vendor or not) they certainly seem more open than their FLOSS counterparts.

So, what is long overdue is some sort of OpenEDL or really open open media framework, an HTML of the world wide FLOSS media editing application web. This needs diplomatic skills more than coding wizardry and would be a perfect task for enthusiastic non-coders. I don't know if I have enough spare time to handle this, but I would definitely take it under consideration. And I'm no coding wizard, that's for sure!

ArtInvent (and others, of course), why don't we team up and take this into our hands? First step would be to look for other efforts that go in the same direction and join forces with them.

AlanJames1987 ....... Are you still around?

Linux badly needs a good video editor and in my opinion it needs to be coded from scratch in C or C++ and not be dependent on external software packages like ffmpeg, MLT and the type of Linux OS you are using such as Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva, etc. Look at all the Kdenlive packages available for the different Linux OS's, should be one like GIMP, FireFox, Open Office.

This of course would be a major job and could be handle the same way GIMP, FireFox, Open Office are developed. And according to the December 2009 issue of HDVideoPro magazine Final Cut Pro was developed by Apple as a "loss leader" to sell macs. So perhaps Mark Shuttleworth - Ubuntu founder - wouldn't mind donating some money to devolop a Linux video editor

I recommend you download ArtistX 0.7 - an Ubuntu based OS. It has tons of preloaded graphics and audio software to try out and a few video editors such as:

Kdenlive (easiest to use)
VideoCut 0.20
StopMotion
Open Movie Editor 0.0.2008
Cinelerra

Thanks for the reply madsdyd.

RE: "Any video editor for Linux, that is "selfcontained", will not be able to handle more than a few of the most basic/simple encodings."

I would like to use DCRAW in this example. As you know DCRAW is a C program that will convert most camera RAW files into TIFF, now apply this to a Linux video editor. I don't understand why a C programmer can't come up with a similar program to convert video/audio formats to other formats, and then implement it into a self-contained video editor. More info on DCRAW: http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw/

Dave Coffin - the developer of DCRAW - also offers consulting services and I'm sure would be able to provided lots of help on such a project, for a fee of course. This is were the likes of Mark Shuttleworth, RedHat, SUSE, etc. come in to help with the finances of such a major project. RedHat (RHT) has a market cap of $5 billion and I'm sure Shuttleworth could raise some money.

Apple developed FCP as a "loss leader" for Macs, why can't the Linux community do the same thing for a Linux video editor?

If you really really want to make a company make a (/another) videoeditor for linux, why not get some votes together for one of these Ubuntu Brainstorm 'video editor wanted!' ideas?

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/random_ideas/?keywords=kdenlive

Regarding functionality in a NLE: I really would like to see as little functionality as possible, regarding importing and exporting. IMHO a NLE should only handle raw audio/video streams and do that perfectly. Conversion from/to formats should be done by tools that are specialised in that, like ffmpeg and mencoder. A I guess a "professional" would know from formats and codecs and how to convert these >:-)

Two big problems with Kdenlive is the missing codecs, such has MPEG-4, H.264 and Flash. And all the different Kdenlive packages for each linux OS.

I'm on Mint 8 and when I downloaded Kdenlive 0.7.5 it was missing all the codecs listed above.

Conversion always means quality loss, and most important TIME means MONEY for professionals, which HATES to convert or even CAPTURE. If you are in a news workflow you need somekind of solid or DTE disk to avoid capture, so as you can see conversion is totally aout of the question.

Let`s say you have 80 hours of video (the ussual for an average documentary with many interviews/inserts), how longs would you think it could take to make that conversion into something KDEnlive can edit... well, your customer will run away to some Mac user, profesional means to take less time to do more and having a competitive solution make you even more compettitive don`t you think?

What you propose is good for editing a family video, and having all the time in the world, and the just upload the video to youtube.

Kdenlive needs desperately Sequencing/nesting IMHO (to avoid intermediate renders)

I'm paid to edit video and I work on a range of things from promotional stuff through productions of live events and other bits and bobs. I produce 2-4 videos a week. I work almost exclusively with final cut however I've been watching the progress of kdenlive and also openshot with great interest.

The progress is very encouraging and I'm really impressed with what I can now do with kdenlive.

For the first time I think I could now actually use it for work but what I'm hoping is that kdenlive will get to the stage where I WANT to use it for work.

There is so much positive stuff I could say about it already.
I like the render options and separate rendering process.

Fairly essential deal makers/breakers...
* Drag to insert a clip between two clips
* Layer modes like dodge, burn, difference etc.
* clip opacity doesn't work for me and I need it.
* hi pass, low pass audio filters.
* stereo audio tracks should be linked mono tracks. With keyframing for pan, vol.
* Sound level meter with peak indicator
* fully parametric eq - ideally with built in analyser
* timecode overlay effect

Things that would be great...
* syncing up camera angles and easy jumping between them. Like the multicam interfaces in other pro NLE packages.
* fluid speed scaling. I set key frames in the video and link them to keyframes in the sound track. The program alters the speed of the video track to line up those keyframes. Ie my video can beat to the music more easily.
* Clip properties like position, cropping, distorts, opacity. I'd like to be able to interact with the preview window as if it was a drawing canvas with keyframes too.
* I don't want to see clip names on the timeline unless I look at the properties - visual clutter.
* I'd like to have left click drag selection to select multiple items on the timeline.
* I'd like an interface for importing clips from sdhc or hd based cameras. I'd want it to be able to handle fixing the aspect ratio of mod/moi files ie. turn them into proper mpeg2 files with a completed header.
* A media/clip library with simple tagging and searching - backend on a media server? A separate but integrated app.
* Would be great to set up a client/server rendering model so that the rendering can actually happen on a separate pc. A separated but integrated app. eg add batch conversions, I can use it without a project just to convert a file? etc.

Just my 2p worth.

Well done on a great app so far.

John