Improvement suggestions and two tiny bugs
Posted: 18 Feb 2022, 20:21
Some minor improvements suggestions...
- add an option to disable the prompt when removing items from the job list ("this will remove n items from the list")
- remove the prompt/confirm dialog from the choose-shots-manually dialog when using auto/auto-with-advanced-timeline-control if all tiles are empty
...and a few tiny bugs
- the new full "double-sized-tile in choose shots manually" feature is great. but depending on the layout of the thumbnail-matrix you need to scroll, which is totally annoying. please either scale the thumbnails that scrolling is not required or add the option to maximize the "choose-shots-manually" window
- when the row selection is on row 7 and i try to delete row 5 with the icon in the row, row 7 is deleted instead. if you dont confirm the delete-prompt, you can see that the row selection is still at row 7 and changed after row 7 has been deleted
When doing a hole folder of videos, i'll review the images and adjust them if required by doing "choose-shots-manually". From time to time there is a video which crashes VTM when using "choose-shots-manually" but it worked fine for the first iteration without choosing the shots. After the crash the list is empty, "restore list" doesnt work and therefore the other videos where I might have selected some shots manually have to be done again.
Two ideas for this:
1) Add another button to the choose-thumbnails-manually form - something like save and apply which automatically runs vtm again for this video and closes the window after this process has completed
2) Add a context menu item to the main window for those entries where shots have been manually choosen and allow to run VTM for those files.
EDIT:
It would make sense that you save the timestamps/framenumber as an attachment to the list entry after the thumbnail image has been generated. Those numbers could be passed to the "choose-shots-manually" window so that we can edit exactly the same image that has been generated before. Due to the randomization option auto generating the thumbs in the choose-shots-manually window can result in an entirely different image.
- add an option to disable the prompt when removing items from the job list ("this will remove n items from the list")
- remove the prompt/confirm dialog from the choose-shots-manually dialog when using auto/auto-with-advanced-timeline-control if all tiles are empty
...and a few tiny bugs
- the new full "double-sized-tile in choose shots manually" feature is great. but depending on the layout of the thumbnail-matrix you need to scroll, which is totally annoying. please either scale the thumbnails that scrolling is not required or add the option to maximize the "choose-shots-manually" window
- when the row selection is on row 7 and i try to delete row 5 with the icon in the row, row 7 is deleted instead. if you dont confirm the delete-prompt, you can see that the row selection is still at row 7 and changed after row 7 has been deleted
When doing a hole folder of videos, i'll review the images and adjust them if required by doing "choose-shots-manually". From time to time there is a video which crashes VTM when using "choose-shots-manually" but it worked fine for the first iteration without choosing the shots. After the crash the list is empty, "restore list" doesnt work and therefore the other videos where I might have selected some shots manually have to be done again.
Two ideas for this:
1) Add another button to the choose-thumbnails-manually form - something like save and apply which automatically runs vtm again for this video and closes the window after this process has completed
2) Add a context menu item to the main window for those entries where shots have been manually choosen and allow to run VTM for those files.
EDIT:
It would make sense that you save the timestamps/framenumber as an attachment to the list entry after the thumbnail image has been generated. Those numbers could be passed to the "choose-shots-manually" window so that we can edit exactly the same image that has been generated before. Due to the randomization option auto generating the thumbs in the choose-shots-manually window can result in an entirely different image.