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I had hoped to have reached the first milepost by the end of tommorrow, that is, I would have all basic timeline functionality finished. However, since I am going to be out all day tommorrow, and because the code I need to write is relatively complex, that is not going to happen. Read More

Work on drag 'n' drop has gone as far as it can for the moment, and my next task is to develop the timeline. I want it to be as general as possible so that it can be re-used in similar programs in the future. My first step is to write a generic KRuler class which I already have need of twice in the interface. Visually, this is already complete. All I have to do now is to give it the functionality of multiple sliders by adding marks to the widget. The latest picture shows the ruler both on the timeline, and in the monitor window. Read More

A minor update, but I am now implementing drag 'n' drop... and realising that I am also implementing the saving and loading of clips in the process. I'm a touch unsure as to information on standards for mime type encoding for drag and drop, but I have decided that all data passed by drag 'n' drop will be as XML files, converted to strings using the toUTF8() method. If this is a bad idea, please contact me and let me know. Read More

I think I've sorted the design out now for the clips, as soon as I have made this compile, I'll update the changes to CVS. Read More

Wow - a month since I've had time to do any real work on this. Mainly due to the transition of Mandrake Cooker from gcc 2.96 to gcc3.01 completely breakng my build system... Oh well, it's back up now, and I've finally managed to add some aRts support that doesn't crash, though it is incredibly slow at adding files at the moment due to the way it checks file lengths (and I mean slow). Will be looking for better solution sometime soon, but at the moment I am simply happy that it works. Read More

After discussions with Christian, I have now written up the cutting list file specification as far as it stands at present. It is now available on this page in the documentation section.

Latest updates to CVS should make Kdenlive compile on KDE 3. It wasn't a major job porting it - mostly it was getting KDevelop to generate a new set of files for Automake/Autoconfig, and then adding a couple of headers here and there where they seem to have changed in QT. My next aim is to make the AVFile calculate the correct lengths of files using aRts, which is mainly a case of figuring out why aRts keeps crashing the program whenever I try and use it at the moment...

I have added a number of documents which some may find interesting on the status of the project. I will keep this up to date whenever something happens. Finally, I have added a mailing list for people interested in kdenlive development.

Christian Berger is the first developer to join kdenlive, and so we can now officially be called the kdenlive team! Christian wrote the deinterlacing effect for EffecTV. Hopefully development will go twice as fast now :-)

Since the last news item, I have got a lot of stuff done. Most of the interface uses QT-designer now, which means it's easily maintained, and the timeline now works in principle - it displays correctly, except that anything to do with drag-n-drop is going to have to wait until I update to KDE 3 (see my diary entry). I've also had to remove all traces of arts code for the present, as it kept crashing - probably because I don't yet understand it well enough to be sure that I've included all of the necessary bits and pieces. Hopefully the upgrade to KDE3 will make that process a lot smoother as well. Read More