Documentation: side by side config as images

[saerdnaer]

When graphic designers are creating artwork (e.g. bg loop) for usage in voctomix, they need the placement of source A and B in [side-by-side-equal] and [side-by-side-preview] view as defined in https://github.com/voc/voctomix/blob/master/voctocore/default-config.ini#L34-L53 .

It would be nice if we can send them images/template files where this messurements are shown – e.g.

[Florob]

Fundamentally I'm not entirely sure this is the right way to things. In terms of getting good designs we might want to let the designer run free and adjust the configuration accordingly. As long as they leave enough room for the videos that shouldn't be overly problematic.
That said, I've played with writing a small template generator. It generates SVGs with different composite modes as different Inkscape layers. You can save these as XCF in Inkscape and go to e.g. PSD from there. Allegedly Illustrator will also treat the SVG as having sub-layers for each composite mode.
Config is currently hard coded, but could be read from the voctocore config, if people think this is a useful tool to have.

• Script
• SVG
• PSD

[dedeibel]

Export the templates as png with transparency and get an animated preview using:

ffmpeg -i bgloop.ts -i preview.png -filter_complex "scale=1920:1080,overlay=main_w-overlay_w-0:0" -b:v 6000k -f nut - | ffplay -i -

[duzy]

This project reminds me the original gst-switch, lol.

[MaZderMind]

@duzy yes, it is based upon gst-switch and inherited a lot of its original design ideas.

[duzy]

@MaZderMind yes, Peter, I can see that. The design model is almost the same as the original, as looking at your UI, it reminds me the pipelines. Thanks for utilizing the design and make it better in your own fashion, it continue to prove the design will be working nicely, but if you mention about the original design, it will be nice to inherit the open source spirit.

[MaZderMind]

fwiw: i added the py and the svg to the git-repo: https://github.com/voc/voctomix/tree/master/doc/composition-mode-images

i didn't add the psd.