https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460690
Bug ID: 460690
Summary: Time Remapping: general thoughts/critic UI/UX
Classification: Applications
Product: kdenlive
Version: 22.08.1
Platform: Other
OS: Microsoft Windows
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: User Interface
Assignee: j...@kdenlive.org
Reporter: v...@gmx.de
Target Milestone: ---
==== SUMMARY
I'll try to keep it short (and skip also the natural appreciation part for all
your work, which I do but...): I find the UI of the "Time Remapping" alias
Speed Ramp ***EXTREMLY*** not only un-intuitive (bad UX) but even limiting in
(possible) functionality .
==== STEPS TO REPRODUCE
Try to figure out "Time Remap" without a tutorial -- without being the
dev/creator of the UI/UX
(Off-Topic but doesn't enhance the situation: while at the same time it's
constantly crashing on you, see #437113).
Really, I mean it. Put your uninformed uncle/cousin/whoever in front of this,
tell him: here is this new feature in kdenlive, please make me this:
https://youtu.be/W1SbGOl9YEc?t=308)
==== OBSERVED RESULT
A) Under specific circumstances extends the clip (probably it's a feature but
regarding UX completely unexpected and unintended)
B) With a lot of "ramps" granularity/accuracy gets lost due to weird scaling of
the "Time-Ramp"-UI
B2) Under certain circumstances cannot click handles in the """graph""" due
to overlapping/aids of the UI
C) Not even sure if this is intended but you can even reverse time. -- Not
anytime soon I would have realised that! (Though the feature at all integrated
here really sounds great.) [2]
==== EXPECTED RESULT
A graph where I could even have control over the kind/speed/slope of the
ramp/function (not only "please magically cramp 2 minutes into 1 minute for
me")
==== ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Maybe I'm just ignored but can the master mind behind the UI please explain the
benefits of the current "fancy" UI over a regular graph/function which
"everybody", I would claim, with a descent educational background would expect
and could grasp in an instant.
AGAIN: I really appreciate your work and *even* a new/different approach over
the "classic" one but only if it brings benefits. The documentation for this
feature is a one-liner which literally just and only states: "The new Time
Remap feature allows to keyframe the speed of a clip."[1] (Since then a whole
*major* release has passed.)
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[1]
https://docs.kdenlive.org/de/effects_and_compositions/effects.html#time-remapping-speed-ramps
[2] https://youtu.be/weY57YFPD-g?t=222
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