Feature request: Timing count on clip previews

[Pixtu]

Ubuntu Karmic - 9:10. Openshot - 0.9.53 via PPA (latest PPA as per Nov 5th post)

1. Black (colour) clip: A clip of just black (or other colour) video is often required. Whilst an image can be created in the Gimp or Inkscape and then imported, it would be useful to be able to create/insert such a clip directly within Openshot. [DONE]

2. Timing count on clip previews: Whilst there is a timing/position count for the 'production' video/timeline it would be useful to have a similar count for the preview of imported clips.

3. Snap to cursor/marker and across tracks: Unless it is a bug, at present the snap function only appears to work when adding a clip to the end of another clip on the same track. It would be useful if the snap function could also operate for the current cursor position, any markers and to the end of a clip on a different track. [covered by another bug]

4. Highlight of selected clip: At present there is no indication of which clip on the timeline has the focus. Perhaps a coloured outline could be added to the clip that has the focus. [covered by another bug]

5. Keyboard control: As there is already some keyboard control, this is probably planned but all commands should have keys associated with them. Also, it would be useful to be able to move quickly to the beginning/end of the timeline with something like pressing Home/End and to move between markers by pressing something like PGUP/PGDN. [covered by another bug]

6. Positioning and edit of 'quick pre-sets': I wanted to show two clips one on top of the other, where each clip took up half of the video area and represented the central half of each track. I tried using the 1/4 top and bottom left and then changing the settings via 'properties', but it just changed the path of the 1/4 size area. Again, this is probably planned, but it would be useful to be able to either edit the pre-set layouts and/or have a custom option. Perhaps one method would be to have a viewport (an outline box) displayed on the pre-view screen initially set to the chosen pre-set. This viewport could then be adjusted by moving any of the corners to change the size/shape of the selected area, or by moving the whole 'box' to select any given area of the original clip. [covered by another bug]

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Thanks for the feature requests. I'll tag this as 'wishlist' so it doesn't get lost in the bug tracker. Quick comment: We have a 'Solid Color' title, if you click "New Title". This allows you to set any color, and the alpha. This is a pretty quick way to get a black clip.

Thanks,
-Jonathan

[Anonymouse (anonymouse2048)]

@Jonathan:
The "Solid Color" title should be black by default in my opinion.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

Regarding the keyboard mappings request they Home & End keys are already mapped to take you to the start & end of the timeline. The Up & Down arrows are mapped to go to the previous/next markers.

[Pixtu (mail4pixtu)]

Well the only one of those that appears to work for me is the Up Arrow. If I could get some of those other keys to work then obviously that would help, although the ideal would be to have a 'key' option for every command.

Not sure why the other keys are not working for me. I'll have to investigate.

[Pixtu (mail4pixtu)]

Having been told about the use of the 'title' feature to create a clip of 'black' video for transitions etc, it does work. Given that it is probably quite a common requirement, perhaps a short script could be created to automate the black video, or as suggested above, the title could default to this if appropriate.

[Andy Finch (fincha)]

My mistake, it is Ctrl + Home & Ctrl + End to navigate to the start/end of the timeline.

[Pixtu (mail4pixtu)]

This seems strange. Neither of these key combinations works for me.

I'm using the 'standard' PPA version with Ubuntu Karmic, so presumably these keys should work!