Video in F-Spot?

[Robert Ochshorn <rmo25 cornell edu>]

F-Spot,

I recently purchased a small digital video camera, and was starting to
think about helping with video support in f-spot.

I see this has been attempted before
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166038), and it looks like
some serious progress has been made, but I'd like to take it to the next
level and allow for creating versioned edits of video.

While at first glance, this seems outside the reach of f-spot, I think I
have a very "f-spot" idea of how to go about it. The editing I would allow
on a video would be exactly the same as the editing on photos--and in
fact it would work by converting the video into a JPEG sequence,
applying the existing f-spot filter on each frame, and then converting
back to a video with the original audio track--with the only addition to
the interface being a little time slider and support for trimming the
clip on either side.

I think this would be really useful for preprocessing video (which could
then be dragged into Kino or Cinelerra or something for sequencing) and
could be great for slideshows and general media-management. Perhaps even
youtube upload support could be added!

I know of no open source project that has this capability, and don't
think it would require any major restructuring to f-spot, while
benefiting from all of the existing photo infrastructure.

I have never contributed to the f-spot project before, and would
appreciate any ideas/advice you have. I'm a student, also, so I probably
won't have time to work on this until Winter Break.

Thoughts?

Rob Ochshorn

On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 09:05 -0400, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Robert Ochshorn wrote:
> 
> > One interesting idea, though, that your question raises, is merging two
> > databases. For example, if I wanted to add all of a friend's f-spot photos
> > (tag structure and edits intact) into my database.
> 
> Bug already filed:
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=330070
> 
> 
> Hub