Sometimes, there is a very poignant post in the Kino discussion forum that I think would be very appropriate for the blog. Like this one:

I guess, this is my major gripe (amongst a few others) I have regarding open source software: project lifetime seems to be rather short - with its first "official" release 1.x in March 2007, kino's feature development has already ceased as it will be replaced by "kdenlive/MLT" (which looks very much like a clone to cinelerra).

In my eyes, kino is (was?) the perfect easy to learn tool for the down to earth hobby video filmer who just wants to convert dv-material to dvd mpeg with a few effects and doesn't want to hassle with a "fully featured" (overloaded?) software like cinelerra. After all, there has been lots of praise by the linux world for just those reasons.

As of now, kdenlive/MLT doesn't even have a titler effect like kino, much less the requested effect of titling the timestamp stored within the dv stream. It will be interesting to see if kdenlive will survive long enough to implement that feature.

Me, for my part, I will stick with kino and use the titler feature.

Kind regards
sanplis

Kino was always just a "practice" for me and has been in development for over 6 years! That is not such a short lifetime for an "exercise." Also, a 1.0 release for many projects indicates achievement of a certain level of features and stability. That holds true for Kino as well. Also, it is quite common that major new releases represent a major rewrite of a significant portion of the codebase. After all, what's in a name and number? You can think of kdenlive/MLT as work towards Kino 2.0 if it makes you feel any better.

Kino 1.x still represents what you describe as what you like about it. My approach towards continuing that achievement is to limit it purely to bug fixes and keeping current with dependencies. I do not want to sacrifice stability for growth in the Kino codebase.

BTW, kdenlive/MLT does have a titler, and it already has the ability to use metadata "variables!" It's just not yet putting the DV metadata into the stream for what you want.

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