Re: Video in F-Spot?

["Michael Wayne Goodman" <goodman m w gmail com>]

Hey Robert,
 this is more about the video patch than your proposal, but....

 I created the latest patch for video in bug 166038, and while I said
that I would fix the issues reported in the patch review after finals
week, alas, it has slipped off my radar. Now I am in Taiwan with
nothing but a Windows laptop, so I cannot finish it for a while.  If
you want to pick up where I left off and make the few changes needed,
it would give you some experience in handling video files with F-Spot.
 Otherwise, I'll make the changes at some time in the future,
hopefully sooner than later.

As for video editing in F-Spot, it has been discussed a few times and
the general consensus was that F-Spot is a photo management tool, with
potential to organize other files taken on a digital camera (namely
video and audio), but not a video editor.  However, if the editing
capabilities were limited to a set similar to the editing capabilities
for photos, perhaps it would make sense, as long as it didn't blow up
the size of the code base.  Anyway, I'm interested in how this turns
out, but I cannot provide any authority on whether or not it's a good
idea.  Good luck!

On 9/6/07, Robert Ochshorn <rmo25 cornell edu> wrote:
> 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
>
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