0000440: Compositing should not be a transition

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0000440

Kdenlive

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2008-12-07 16:03

2010-02-20 08:17

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LeHomard

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normal

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feature

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closed

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fixed

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Recent git

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0.7.7

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0000440: Compositing should not be a transition

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I am currently editing the film of a theatre play. It was filmed by a fixed camera, and therefore and wanted to zoom in/out and pan around in the picture to follow the action and make the film a bit more dynamic. In order to to that Kdenlive has a very powerful compositing feature, but it is only available as a transition.

This meant that I actually had to add a black color clip in a separate timeline in order to be able to zoom and pan on the video. This was very unintuitive, and unless I'm mistaken it isn't possible to add multiple transitions to a clip, so once the compositing is done there is no way to add a transition with another clip.

Of course compositing can be used as a transition, but it shouldn't be limited to that.

Making compositing an effect instead of a transition would be a solution, but I think it would be even better to actually do the compositing directly in the preview window by simply activating a "compositing" option (I think Premiere works that way and it works really well).

One problem that I think would have to be solved in order to do this is the way kdenlive treats empty tracks. In other editing software I have tried the empty tracks (or the absence of any other track under the current) is treated like a black color clip. This means that you can easily add fade-in, fade-out and do compositing without adding a color clip. From what I have seen I don't think that is possible at the moment with Kdenlive (My actual computer is down at the moment so I can't check right now that it's true).

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(0001598) cinephiliac (updater) 2008-12-10 21:31	Acknowledged as a wishlist item.

(0004357) xzhayon (developer) 2009-11-26 14:22	this was fixed months ago: compositing is still a transition, but "black track" can be selected as the target track for a transition, so you don't need to add a color clip to make it work as an effect about a different interface: i'm quite sure there are other issues on that, so let's mark this one as closed

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2008-12-07 16:03	LeHomard	New Issue
2008-12-07 16:03	LeHomard	Build/Install Method	=> Build Wizard
2008-12-10 21:31	cinephiliac	Note Added: 0001598
2008-12-10 21:31	cinephiliac	Status	new => acknowledged
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Note Added: 0004357
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Status	acknowledged => resolved
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Fixed in Version	=> 0.7.3
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Resolution	open => fixed
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Assigned To	=> xzhayon
2009-11-26 14:22	xzhayon	Assigned To	xzhayon =>
2010-02-02 10:34	j-b-m	Fixed in Version	0.7.3 => 0.7.7
2010-02-20 08:17	j-b-m	Status	resolved => closed