Olive: Audio/video effects for entire tracks

[itsmattkc]

[itsmattkc]

later my child

[maingi2]

audio/video effects for E N T I R E S E Q U E N C E ?

[itsmattkc]

_ENTIRE SEQUENCES_

[elsandosgrande]

Wait, how would it even work for entire sequences?

[frink]

I think this has to do with things like coloration effects or overlays which are both handled differently in Olive...

[unfa]

+1 for effects for tracks
+1 for effects for sequences

This'd allow to have a master audio limiter, which is a really needed thing.

[Simran-B]

I wonder how this could be integrated the most sensible way...

1. Right-click a Sequence in the Project panel > Preview in Media Viewer and the Effects tab could then be updated to the Sequence. The user would need to switch to the Effects panel manually though, which wouldn't be very obvious.

   

2. Same as above, but with a dedicated entry in the menu to Edit Effects. This would switch to the Effects tab and be thus straightforward.

   

3. Integrated into the Properties dialog. Transitions don't make much sense here I guess, and some parameters not either (the entire transformation panel?!). This would make the dialog quite convoluted and introduce the need for a scrollbar.

   

4. Tweak the audio meter into something like a muster bus. Not sure how I feel about adding the Add Video Effect button there... but it would require distinct icons for video and audio effects.

   

5. Somewhere else?

For effects per track, an obvious solution would be to add a column in front of the timeline:

In my mockup there is a title and the button to add an effect to a track, but this could actually be extended a lot:

• hide/mute track
• lock track
• collapse/expand track to save vertical space
• set color for track to visually group tracks (common in DAWs, not sure if useful in a video editor)

[itsmattkc]

This will be addressed in the node rewrite.

[frink]

Are we going to reopen these issues when we do the restructure? Or what is your thought?