[PiTiVi] Final Progress Report

[Brandon Lewis <brandon_lewis berkeley edu>]

My last task was to be implementing project load/save support. Well, I 
haven't quite finished it. I spent too much time writing design 
documents, and not enough time coding/testing. After returning from 
GUADEC, I made some rapid initial progress on the application logic. But 
when I turned my attention to the UI, things began to get hairy. I ended 
up abandoning that project, so I could concentrate on the back end. This 
also proved to be hairy, because Edward wanted a pluggable back end that 
used a format-agnostic intermediate data type.

At the crucial juncture, Edward went incommunicado, so I was left to 
speculate about how this intermediate format was supposed to work. I 
tinkered around with a couple false starts. Edward returned yesterday, 
and so I'm just now beginning to make real progress on the saving back 
end. This is something of a disappointment, as I have spent a lot of 
time on code which is not commit-worthy. I am not sure where to go from 
here. I don't think either of us saw the end of the program deadline was 
so close.

I plan to continue to work on this project, though my efforts will have 
to be scaled back, to make room for school. Some features I would 
ultimately like to see are editing widgets like "jog/shuttle wheels," 
gstreamer effects plugins that use the GPU for processing, and maybe a 
plugin for editing and authoring stereoscopic 3d video. But for now, 
there's still a long way to go on the core feature set.