Allow Markers to have a start AND stop(or duration)
Proposed changes to make this feature happen:
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Currently Kdenlive mixes 2 different names for the same thing: Guides
andMarkers
. Consistently rename user visible strings toMarkers
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Add a duration attribute to the Makers -
Update the qml view to display this range in timeline and in the Monitors -
Update the Guides List widget to also display the markers duration (screenshot below) -
Currently, the Guides list can either display timeline markers or the currently selected Bin Clip markers. This should be extended to allow displaying the markers of all Bin Clips. -
Allow dragging a Marker that has a duration from the guides list to the timeline [ME] or with a shortcut. -
Add a shortcut to save the current zone (Clip or Project Monitor) as a marker with duration -
Update the RenderWidget
class that allows rendering between 2 markers to allow rendering a timed marker. -
When selecting a Maker with a duration, set the zone to match the marker (maybe we can make this optional)
Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere both have support for markers that are like a subclip, rather than a single point in time. Internally, this only involves adding a duration or an endpoint to the marker table.
Then instead of simply displaying a marker tag in the timeline that is only shown when the playhead is locate on that exact frame, the marker is displayed on the timeline and clip window, and the text of the marker is optionally displayed anytime the playhead is within the marker. Markers can overlap, but that's okay, even if it gets a bit messy on the display.
When a marker is selected from the list of clip markers, the clip should be loaded, and start/stop points should be set for the clip to match the marker.
We can use the same keystroke to start and end a marker (Ctrl-Shift-M), or use another one for end the marker The pop-up box for the marker should only happen on the "end", so the process would be: "see something that needs to be marked, click "Begin Marking", play the video, stop it, hit Crrl-Shift-M or "Stop Marking", a prompt comes up with the text description and the marker color.
I think it's important to navigate ALL the markers, not just markers by clips. Let's say you want to mark clips that are candidates for a trailer, or closing comments, or whatever. I want to be able to say "Show me all the markers, filter by whatever color (or even search)" then let me see those clips. Currently markers are within the clip only, so you have to go to each clip to see what markers might be candidates. As such, Markers could even have their own menu items, they're somewhat buried right now, and they're my favorite tool! Markers can be like subclips, but with the additional text and categorization they're really quite handy.