Rotation values are off or just odd.

[Trevor]

Using Ubuntu 9.10 and was installed using the PPA method.

I tried using the rotation effect and found it tedious to use. You need to specify what each box represents better. The rotate x,y, and z are degrees per frame and the Fixed Rotations are done in degrees. So when I want to rotate a clip x degrees for 5 seconds I will have to do some math to determine the number of degrees per frame.
Equation is:
Degrees per frame = Desired Rotation / (30 frames * Duration of clip in seconds)
Example:
Degrees per frame = 180 Degrees / (30 * 2 Seconds)
Degrees per frame = 3

The user would then insert 3 for Rotate X.

Have OpenShot do this equation for the user. Just have the Rotate effect draw the value for "Duration of Clip" from the Length tab. This way the user can input the Desired Rotation and the program will fill in the Degrees per frame.

It might just be me, but when I think about rotating something I think of how much I want to rotate it and not how many degrees per frame.

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Good suggestion. Thanks.

[Trevor (trevorlangas)]

Any progress on this feature?

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Unfortunately, no. I have pushed a lot of bugs about the effect Rotation (this one too) in the milestone 1.2.0 (notably a very bad bug for the foreigners users that we have not yet found the solution) . but it is not yet done. I don't know if it will be taken in this one, nothing is sure because we have worked a lot but not all done. In the worse cases, it will be put in the milestone 1.3.0.. when this nasty bug will be resolve, we will done all who concern this great feature to be more easily and friendly that now.
Thanks.

[Trevor (trevorlangas)]

Will this be included with all the other effect features in the 1.4 release?

[Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph)]

Marking this as "Won't Fix". Our current effects properties pass the values straight to MLT, without any processing (i.e. formulas). Our new video editing framework will handle this much more elegantly, using curves to precisely control the amount of rotation over time. So, this ticket it not something we are going to do at this moment. Thanks.