https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502869
Bug ID: 502869
Summary: Some Titler suggestions
Classification: Applications
Product: kdenlive
Version: git-master
Platform: Other
OS: Other
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Title Clips & Subtitles
Assignee: j...@kdenlive.org
Reporter: gabcor...@gmail.com
Target Milestone: ---
Hi,
Recently, while translating the manual, I've had the opportunity to pay closer
attention to the whole Titler feature set, UI and workflows.
So I've written down some of the things that occurred to me, while going
through the different areas covered in the manual (and testing them in the
program), hoping that others could find them useful too.
Following, there are some ideas for things that could be improved (some of
which seemingly modest in scope) to make working with titles in Kdenlive more
powerful and enjoyable:
Shape & Image objects:
- To have shadows also for shape and image objects (with same options as for
texts).
- To have a way to do an interactive scale from center. (holding down Alt or
something)
- To have a way to do an interactive scale, while maintaining the current
aspect ratio of the shape/image. (holding down Shift or something)
Gradient Editor:
- Be able to create Circular/Elliptical gradients.
Sliders in Gradient Editor:
- Right click over a slider to reset to default value (since they don't show a
value is hard to take them back to default).
- While dragging a slider, snap to certain degree angles (90, 45?).
UI:
- When "Show Background" option is active, disable background types combo box.
To improve discoverability of template feature:
- "Open Document" button label is somewhat confusing (the term "Document" is
not really used for anything else). Perhaps "Open Template" would be better?
- Also, when opening a template using that button, there is no previous
confirmation/warning, it just replaces what's in the workspace.
- "Save As" button, also doesn't indicate what type of file it will be saving.
Perhaps "Save Template As" would be better?
Title Templates feature:
- Ability to use more codes (like current '%s') to have more than one
replaceable text in each template (perhaps using %1, %2, %3, etc).
- When creating a new title from a template, display in the new title dialog as
many text fields as % codes the selected template uses.
- Do the same for text fields in the Clip Properties widget.
I'm sure many more things could be said about potential Titler new features,
but I tried to just stick to those improvements that could be undertaken with
moderate effort, while still rewarding users with some good new possibilities
on daily tasks.
Thanks for listening!
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