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Effects
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Summary
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1. Basic ideas
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2. Problems
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3. Propositions to solve those problems
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A. The registry
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B. Effects configurability
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C. Keyframes
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4. Use-cases
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5. API draft
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The goal of this proposal is to design a simple way to handle effects through an
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API which would allow developers to handle any use-cases.
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1. Basic ideas
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* GESTrackEffects are subclasses of GESTrackOperation
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* You can add effects on any clip or layer
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* You can add effects over several clips and control them as a unique effect.
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* Effects are configurable and those properties can change during time
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* We must be able to handle third-party effect providers, like the
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gnome-video-effects standard.
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* We must be able to implement complex effects. This means effects that are
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more than adding GstElement-s to the timeline. It can also mean effects
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that apply both video and audio changes.
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2. Problems
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* We must be able to provide a list of effects available on the system at
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runtime.
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* We must be able to configure effects through an API in GES
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withtout having to access the GstElements properties directly.
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* We should also expose the GstElement-s contained in an effect so
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it is possible for people to control their properties as they wish.
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* We must be able to implement and handle complexe effects directly in GES
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* We must be able to configure effects through time -> Keyframes without
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duplicating code from GStreamer
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3. Propositions to solve those problems
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A. The registry => Still to design
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We could implement a GESRegistry which would actually
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retrieve elements (effects) from the GSTRegistry and any other mean
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such as gnome-video-effects to let us get all the effects that are present
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on the system....
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This way the developers could have the list of all the effects
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that are installed on the system pretty easily.
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B. Effects configurability
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The idea to be able to configure effects through a simple API in GES would
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be to add an API in GESTrackObject to access the gst-object properties that
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user would like to configure.
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We would also have a method to set those properties easily.
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We should also find a way to handle that in the case of systems such as
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gnome-effects
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C. Keyframes
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We may want to handle this use-case directly in GES and for any kind of
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time related configuration? FIXME
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=> Special specifications for that?
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4. Use-cases
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UC-1. The user wants to add an effect to an entire clip => GESTimelineObject
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new API
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UC-2. The developer wants to allow users to configure effects => New
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GESTrackOperation API
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UC-3. The user wants to add an effect on a specific portion of a clip, we
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should allow him to specify a portion of the clip where the effect should be
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applied.
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UC-4. We want to implement an effect which isn't only composed by a bin, but
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is more complexe than that (ex: "effect '24'") => we have the
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GESTrackOperation which is the base class (abstract) for this kind of
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implementation. This class should implement vmethods to get/set configurable
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properties.
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UC-5. A developer wants to implement effect which handle music and video at
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the same time, Would the solution be to implement a GESTimelineEffect
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to handle this special usecase? FIXME
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UC-6. The developers wants to configure each elements of an effect the way
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he wants
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with a full control over it.
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UC-7. Developers want to expose all effects present on the system to the
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end-user
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5. API draft
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A. GESTrackObject new API
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signals:
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* property-changed: emited when a usefull property of a GstElement
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contained in the GESTrackObject changes
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_track_object_list_children_properties:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTrackObject
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* A convenience method that lists all the usefull configurable properties
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* of the GstElement-s contained in @object.
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*
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* Returns: an array of GParamSpec of the configurable properties of the
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* GstElement-s contained in @object or %NULL if a problem occurred.
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*/
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GParamSpec **
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ges_track_object_list_children_properties (GESTrackObject *object);
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-> Usecases: Let user know all the property he can configure.
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=> Waiting for GESMaterial
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/**
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* ges_track_object_set_child_property:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTrackObject
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* @property_name: The name of the property
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* @value: the value
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* Sets a property of a GstElement contained in @object.
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*
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*/
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void ges_track_object_set_child_property (GESTrackObject *object,
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const gchar *property_name,
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GValue * value);
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-> Usecases:
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+ Let user configure effects easily (UC-3)
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_track_object_get_child_property:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTrackObject
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* @property_name: The name of the property
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* @value: return location for the property value
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*
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* Gets a property of a GstElement contained in @object.
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*/
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void ges_track_object_get_child_property (GESTrackObject *object,
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const gchar *property_name,
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gpointer value);
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_track_object_get_material:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTrackObject
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* This is a convenience method to get the #GESMaterial
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* from which @object has been made.
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*
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* Returns: The material from which @object has been made or %NULL
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* if @object has been made by another mean
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*/
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GESMaterial *ges_track_object_get_material (GESTrackObject *object);
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=> Waiting for GESMaterial
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B. GESTimelineObject new API
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signals:
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-------
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* effect-added: emited when an effect is added
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* effect-removed: emited when an effect is removed
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_timeline_object_add_effect:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTimelineObject
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* @effect_material: The #GESEffect from which to create the effect
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* @position: The top position you want to give to the effect,
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* -1 if you want it to be added at the end of effects.
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*
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* Adds a new effect corresponding to @effect_material to the
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* #GESTimelineObject
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* Returns: The newly created #GESTrackEffect, or %NULL if there was an
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* error.
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*/
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GESTrackEffect *ges_timeline_object_add_effect (GESTimelineObject *object,
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GESEffect *effect_material,
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gint position);
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_timeline_object_get_effects:
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* @object: The origin #GESTimelineObject
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* Returns: a #GList of the #GESTrackEffect that are applied on
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* @object order by ascendant priorities.
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* The refcount of the objects will be increased. The user will have to
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* unref each #GESTrackOperation and free the #GList.
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*/
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GList *
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ges_timeline_object_get_effects (GESTimelineObject *object);
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-> Usecases:
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+ First step to allow the configuration of effects (UC-3)
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_timeline_object_set_top_effect_position:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTimelineObject
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* @effect: The #GESTrackEffect to move
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* @newposition: the new position at which to move the @effect
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*
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* Returns: %TRUE if @effect was successfuly moved, %FALSE otherwize.
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*/
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gboolean
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ges_timeline_object_set_top_effect_position (GESTimelineObject *object,
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GESTrackEffect *effect, guint newposition);
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=> DONE
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/**
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* ges_timeline_object_get_top_effect_position:
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*
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* @object: The origin #GESTimelineObject
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* @effect: The #GESTrackEffect we want to get the top position from
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*
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* Gets the top position of an effect.
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*
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* Returns: The top position of the effect, -1 if something went wrong.
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*/
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gint
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ges_timeline_object_get_top_effect_position (GESTimelineObject *object,
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GESTrackEffect *effect);
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=> DONE
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C - The GESTrackEffect API:
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/**
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* ges_track_effect_new_from_material:
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*
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* @effect_material: The #GESEffect from which to create this
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* #GESTrackEffect
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*
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* Creates a new #GESTrackEffect from a #GESEffect
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*
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* Returns: a newly created #GESTrackEffect, or %NULL if something went
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* wrong.
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*/
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GESTrackEffect *ges_track_effect_new_from_material(GESTrackEffect *effect,
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GESEffect *effect_material);
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=> Waiting for GESMaterial
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/**
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* ges_track_effect_new_from_bin_desc:
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*
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* @bin_dec: The gst-launch like bin description of the effect
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*
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* Creates a new #GESTrackEffect from the description of the bin. This is
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* a convenience method for testing puposes.
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*
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* Returns: a newly created #GESTrackEffect, or %NULL if something went
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* wrong.
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*/
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GESTrackEffect *ges_track_effect_new_from_bin_desc(GESTrackEffect *effect,
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const gchar *bin_desc);
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=> DONE
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D - The GESTimelineEffect API:
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The GESTimelineEffect basically doesn't have anything else but what
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GESTimelineObject has.
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-> Usecases: The user wants to control multiple effects in sync. The user
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wants to add an effect to the whole timeline. The user wants
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to had an effect to a segment of the timeline without caring
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bout what clip it is applied on.
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=> DONE
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E - The GESEffect:
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The GESEffect class is a subclass of GESMaterial, it is used to describe
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effects independently of the usage which is made of it in the timeline.
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A GESEffect can specify a GESTrackOperation class to use in a
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TimelineObject.
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All important properties are inherited from GESMaterial such as:
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* Name
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* Description
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* Tags
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* ...
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We should also be able to list properties of the effect from the GESMaterial.
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=> Waiting for GESMaterial
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=================
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TODO GESRegistry API:
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This should be a singleton since we don't want an app to instanciate more
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than one registry. It must be able to get effects from various sources.
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We should also make sure any custom effect is detected.
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/**
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* ges_registry_get_default:
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*
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* Returns a newly created #GESEffectRegistry or the existing one
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* increasing
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* its refcount
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*/
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GESEffectRegistry *
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ges_registry_get_default (void);
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-> Usecases:
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+ Have a registry of all effects that are on the system (UC-8)
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/**
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* ges_effect_registry_get_effect_list:
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*
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* @self: The origin #GESEffectRegistry
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*
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* Returns a #GList of #GESEffectDescriptors. The
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*/
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GList *
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ges_registry_get_effect_list (GESEffectRegistry *self);
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-> Usecases:
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+ Get all effects descriptors that are on the system (UC-8)
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