22nd March 2002 11:32 UTC
AVS suggestion
heres a few thoughts on the AVS wishlist
=====new effects
my first contribution to the wishlist would be an expression evaluator to work with bitmaps/ movies.
ideally it could cache a still image larger than the screen, or even a panoramic (cylindrical/ cube map) image, and allow the view to move around under script control like dynamic move etc. it would also be nice to control a movie with a script, for instance varying playback speed based on getspec() or getosc(). very ideally it would deal with vector images (flash movies) as well...
and a more intuitive colour altering model like HSV...
=====programming interface
another big plus would be to open up to the .ape interface more of the features which are accessible to the built in plugins- such as access to buffers, render mode/line width etc.
=====UI enhancements
another thing which would probably not be that hard would be to have preset sizes for the output window. how much time have we all wasted trying to set that window to **exactly** 320x240 or whatever?
and it would be great to have the avs editor window resizeable even if just to expand the space available for the effect list.
a (probably more difficult) UI enhancement would be if the configuration screens for each effect could be torn off as a seperate window...
and my ultimate wish would be a more flexible/powerful UI like MAX/MSP or jMAX... modular media processing using a 2D flowchart paradigm rather than a 1D stack paradigm...a
i'll stop before i get carried away. T.