SoC 2009/Enhancing VLMC

This project is part of Google Summer of Code 2009. Student: Hugo Beauzee-Luyssen Mentor: Ludovic Fauvet

Enhancing VLMC

Abstract

The aim of this project is to provide a functionnal workflow for the VLMC project, including the transition and effects API, in order to allow external developpers to create new effects. At the moment, VLMC isn't abble to generate a video output. After this summer, it (hopefully) will :)

The workflow consists of 5 differents workflows :

• The main workflow
• The clip workflow
• The track workflow
• The effects workflow
• The transition workflow

Basically, the main workflow will query the track workflow, which will query the clip workflow for each clip contained in the so called track. Transitions and effect workflow will query transition and effects modules at different points, from the precedently described workflows.

Tasks

Task name	End date	Dependencies	Status
Clip workflow	06-06-09	Requires a functional preview widget, and a basic timeline	Almost done
Tracks workflow	13-06-09	Requires a functionnal Clip workflow	Not started yet
Main workflow	11-07-09	Requires a functionnal Track workflow	Not started yet
Effect and Transition API	14-08-09	Requires lots of conception :p	Not started yet
Effect workflow	28-08-09	Requires all the basic workflow to be functionnal, and an effect API to query modules	Not started yet
Transition workflow	11-09-09	Requires all the basic workflow to be functionnal, and the transition API	Not started yet
Plug effects and transition workflow	25-09-09	Plug the effect and transition workflow through the whole workflow	Not started yet

In order to test the effect and transition workflow, they will be plugged at an arbitrary spot. Probably the clip workflow.