rylleman
August 21st, 2009, 07:22 PM
Nowadays linux has a large variety of video production tools. We got animation softwares (Synfig, Blender Pencil etc.), capturers (Kino), editors (Kdenlive, OpenShot, PiTiVi, Blender etc.),compositors (Ramen) render farms (DrQueue) etc.
Agreeable all of these are in various stages of usability, some have just started and some are really robust.
Pretty much all areas are covered but there are however one area left where there is a white spot in the linux video creativity world and that is a production quality video player.
When you work with video you want to browse your material, really scrutinize it. However, there are no video player in linux that let you frame step backward and apart from in video editors you can't scrub your material.
There are many video players in linux but if you look at them they are basically the same. They play your material, you can sometimes step forward in your material (never backward) and they are all overloaded with effects and bling-bling you can pimp your material with as you play it. But, as I said before, none let's you play you material with any grade of control.
What I would like to see in a player suited for production and not just consuming video material is;
• Frame stepping, both forward and backwards
• Immediate response to play/pause command. Not half a second or a few frames later.
• Scrubbing; drag timeline and video updates as you drag.
• video and image sequence playback.
• Comparative playback; open several clips and control them either together with one controller or separately. This is a more than basic feature and can wait until later.
I'm not a programmer and can't create this myself. I do however want to hear other peoples thoughts on this and ideas on how to proceed to reach a player like this.
Agreeable all of these are in various stages of usability, some have just started and some are really robust.
Pretty much all areas are covered but there are however one area left where there is a white spot in the linux video creativity world and that is a production quality video player.
When you work with video you want to browse your material, really scrutinize it. However, there are no video player in linux that let you frame step backward and apart from in video editors you can't scrub your material.
There are many video players in linux but if you look at them they are basically the same. They play your material, you can sometimes step forward in your material (never backward) and they are all overloaded with effects and bling-bling you can pimp your material with as you play it. But, as I said before, none let's you play you material with any grade of control.
What I would like to see in a player suited for production and not just consuming video material is;
• Frame stepping, both forward and backwards
• Immediate response to play/pause command. Not half a second or a few frames later.
• Scrubbing; drag timeline and video updates as you drag.
• video and image sequence playback.
• Comparative playback; open several clips and control them either together with one controller or separately. This is a more than basic feature and can wait until later.
I'm not a programmer and can't create this myself. I do however want to hear other peoples thoughts on this and ideas on how to proceed to reach a player like this.