How's the current tip code?

[fluffymcdeath]

Do you have to be a masochist to live on the bleeding edge of the reposirory? I'm just wondering how hectic it is up there. I've been drooling over the blender titles for a while now but whenever I try to update I don't get them. I guess all that hasn't transitioned to the stable release.

I'd love to try out the newest stuff but I am cowardly. I cut stuff on OpenShot and like it and would hate to mess things up by switching to a newer unreleased version. Can I have two separate installs that don't have conflicting requirements. I'm on Ubuntu 10.4 - anyone here got experience using the tip code, any advice?

[Andy]

You can get the latest code by running the following command in the terminal (if you have bazaar installed):

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bzr branch lp:openshot

Wherever you run this command from, it will create a folder called openshot, with all the source code contained within. You can then run openshot by running the command

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python openshot.py

This won't interfere with your 'official' install - you can run them side by side.

The code should be fairly stable, but don't be surprised if you find the odd problem or two

Andy.

[Cenwen]

Just a precision when you do an update, you must be in the first folder openshot and run in a console this command who will update your version of Openshot :

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bzr pull

[fluffymcdeath]

OK, that went pretty smoothly. Went to try the 3D titles right away - oh oh. Needs Blender 2.50 and latest official is 2.49 so I guess that'll hold up the next release of OpenShot?

Did have a crash though. Went to create a new project left the default length (which was 0) and - blammo. Don't know if zero length was the cause or something else. I should try it again and see - however, I am mystified by the project length parameter. Surely the length is from the start to the end of the last clip - I can't think of any conceivable reason to specify this up front.

On the other hand, things definitely go better with full screen (especially on my little net book)!

[Andy]

There's also a new slim theme, which will help you out on a netbook.

For Blender, you need to use the latest alpha version. But the requirements will be mentioned in the release notes.

Thanks for mentioning that crash, that's something to look into.

[fluffymcdeath]

I've looked at reproducing that crash I mentioned.
I'm running 10.04 LTS on a Dell mini10. If I run the openshot.py from a terminal there is no problem. If I double click openshot.py and choose "run" there is no problem. If I double click openshot.py and choose "run in terminal" then create New project and save it, then the second time I create new project and save it openshot goes bye-bye.

[Andy]

There have been some changes committed last night which might sort this out.

[beats]

good work!

http://wycast.wydev.es/?p=episode&name= ... avidad.mp4

Happy new year!

I posted my miniguide in spanish about i made it work for myself. you can read it here (in spanish) but let me know if you want for me to translate to english also,

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Regards,