[Lumiera] how to organize the timeline?

[Christian Thaeter]

Ichthyostega wrote:
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> Hi Lumi hackers,
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> after re-reading the last discussions I am struck that we came across
> a controversy due to having differing "mental models" in the background
> of the editing process.
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> Being a programmer (besides working with media a lot), assembling
> and sticking together objects and then tweaking and adorning seems
> natural -- much more than the idea of painting an effect on top of an
> existing media track. This coincides with my own experience of track
> centric working being well suited e.g. for mixing the multi track
> recording of a cantata with soloists and choir but annoyingly getting
> into the way for more compositional work or when doing sound-design.
> 
> There are differing working styles, and -- of course -- the style
> determines what seems natural and thus is thought to be good GUI design.
> Related are the questions how to edit wiring and routing, how to access
> and tweak effects and even what combinations of effects are valid within
> a given GUI design.
> 
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> As the basic internals of Lumiera are more clear meanwhile, probably we
> need to discuss a bit more about the intended way-of working to be
> supported by the GUI (I mean, not primarily about "features").
> So -- what different working styles are known? Can we identify basic
> use cases of the application? What way of working are people most
> comfortable with?
> 
> 	Hermann

That gave me an idea:

Currently we treat the timeline as work-area which is the place where 
you assemble the film. Your footage comes from the 'resource' area.

I always wanted that lumiera can open more than one timeline view (as 
split, tiling, or complete independent window)

How about having the footage preloaded into a secondary timeline. That 
is for each camera (recording device) you get its own track, and then 
everything is syncronized by its timecode (with some configureable 
offset, per camera (damn forgot to set the clock...), per clip .. )

Then you can organize this 'super-tape' into many clips (or not 
whatever) but you have a linear, previewable view of all your footage 
which you can use to cut'n'paste (drag'n'drop) into your working area.

	Christian