Status update
06.Nov.2005
So now for some Diva news…
During the past month I was basically rewriting the whole engine part from scratch. It’s not 100% done yet, but the overall design is already there. It’s modularized, extensible, and should be enough to implement all the cool ideas that were proposed on diva-cutters list.
There will be some deja-vu now happening, as I’m porting the “old” interface to the new engine (upgrading everything in the meantime).
The first thing I ported is the interface to manage/import files into project. I’m demoing it here alone (without the rest of the GUI).
A new feature I particularly like are the labels – an idea borrowed directly from GMail. The point is that you can “label” everything (media files, filters, export settings, etc.) the way you want it. Ie. you can use labels to mark people appearing in shots. Or just mark the shots that are out of focus. Or use it to organize shots into scenes…
Usually video editing software offers “folders” (or “bins”) to organize your stuff. But labels are much more efficient!
Stay tuned, the timeline is coming back soon.
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Please take a look to this Comparison of Commercial Editing Systems from another open source video editor: http://www.jahshaka.org//content/view/76/46/
Wow, things just keep looking better and better. I applaud your effort towards creating a nice interface. More than often, open source software has interfaces that look like they were pulled out of the early 90’s. This software looks like it will be a pleasure to use. The idea to use labels is great as well. I can’t think of a better way to organize media!
I like the labelling feature, although I would be tempted to call it “tagging” since that seems to be what most sites (flickr, delicious, etc) are calling it.
Also, make sure there’s a way to batch-tag bins (see f-spot).
The labels (I prefer the term tag) are an interesting interface concept, but there is a small problem: when you have a huge media library it may be hard to navigate it because you will have a huge list of labels or alot of files in the same label. Perhaps it could be solved alowing the labels to be hierarchically organized.
Rather than categorizing, which also doesn’t scale up infinitely, something like delicious’ flat tag entry could be used - http://del.icio.us
Really glad to see this project continue to make progress. I agree that the word “tag” is more widely accepted than “label”, but I suppose it doesn’t matter.
When do you think there might be a release made? Keep up the great work!
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