VSE : Extend mode for strips.
(2nd time posting this, but with images to satisfy the requirement for color and movement!)
Currently when a clip in the Video Editor is extended beyond its length, the last (or first) frame is repeated over each subsequent frame.
Would it be possible to define an "Extend" mode for movie and image sequence clips that enables the following:
End Frame
Current functionality. The final frame of the sequence is repeated in each subsequent frame.
Loop
Extended clip uses frames from the beginning of the sequence as needed.
Yo-yo
Extended clip uses frames backwards from the end of the sequence, then forward from the beginning as needed.
Extending the beginning would have a similar effect:
End Frame (Repeat first frame) [1,1,1,1,1,2,3,4,5]
Loop (Loop frames from end as needed)
Yo-yo (Loop frames from start, then end as needed)
4 Comments
I guess you could hack this with an addon that duplicates the strip in a metastrip?
@David McSween: You could fake it that way, but then you have to deal with meta strips. I actually do use Metas when I need to do this and it's a bit of a pain. I'd really like to see if the existing "Extend" functionality can be made a little more useful.
@ammusionist: I only suggest this as most often the preferred dev solution is to make an addon instead of more code to be maintained
@David McSween: Time to brush off my Python then I guess :-)