[digiKam-users] Feature request: better video display

[Agustin Lobo]

At least for wildlife photography, taking videos is very common.
I miss not being able to advance frame by frame (or at least, step by
step: I can stop the play, but cannot make it advance with the scroll
symbol) and have some control on the display speed (e.g. 0.5x, 1.5x,
2x).

Being able to zoom in would be fantastic, but I understand that is
probably difficult as
actually few video display programs let you do it.

(tried the windows version only)

Great program anyway.
Agus

Le 21/04/2019 à 21:05, Agustin Lobo a écrit :

> At least for wildlife photography, taking videos is very common.
> I miss not being able to advance frame by frame (or at least, step by
> step: I can stop the play, but cannot make it advance with the scroll
> symbol) and have some control on the display speed (e.g. 0.5x, 1.5x,
> 2x).
>
> Being able to zoom in would be fantastic, but I understand that is
> probably difficult as
> actually few video display programs let you do it.
>
> (tried the windows version only)
>
> Great program anyway.
> Agus
>

I think VLC and Kdenlive let you do that. Digikam is not a video editor...

jdd

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[Agustin Lobo]

The same answer could be given for every feature in Digikam... , there
is always another program doing it.
The point is to ensemble those features needed for cataloguing and
visualizing in one single program.
The features I mention are not for editing, but for visualizing. And
are just equivalent in video to the most
basic ones present for stills. Can you imagine Digikam not letting you
zoom and pan within an image?



On Sun, Apr 21, 2019 at 9:09 PM [hidden email] <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Le 21/04/2019 à 21:05, Agustin Lobo a écrit :
> > At least for wildlife photography, taking videos is very common.
> > I miss not being able to advance frame by frame (or at least, step by
> > step: I can stop the play, but cannot make it advance with the scroll
> > symbol) and have some control on the display speed (e.g. 0.5x, 1.5x,
> > 2x).
> >
> > Being able to zoom in would be fantastic, but I understand that is
> > probably difficult as
> > actually few video display programs let you do it.
> >
> > (tried the windows version only)
> >
> > Great program anyway.
> > Agus
> >
> I think VLC and Kdenlive let you do that. Digikam is not a video editor...
>
> jdd
>
> --
> http://dodin.org

Le 23/04/2019 à 17:35, Agustin Lobo a écrit :
> The same answer could be given for every feature in Digikam...

certainly not. Digikam is a software for tagging, sorting, basic editing
of *still images*.

editing *videos* is an all different workflow. Basic video reading may
be useful, but I even doubt it, I would largely like better have A big
"X" as icon for video to make obvious I have to move these files eksewhere.

> The point is to ensemble those features needed for cataloging and
> visualizing in one single program.

of course not. let alone because metadata are very different between
photos and videos.

>> I think VLC and Kdenlive let you do that. Digikam is not a video editor...
>>
>> jdd

We may (or not) go to a world where 8 (or 16?)k video will make obsolete
still photos, but this is to be disputed elsewhere and it's not yet.

What is sure is that some sort of cataloging software for videos could
be useful, but as far as I know, open source software teams are made of
very few people I I don't want the digikam team to spend time on video
when there is so much work still to do on photos (of course is anybody
want to make fun in video, I have no problem with it) .

of course all this is *my* point of view and anybody can thing otherwise

jdd

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