Implements a very basic GLSL deinterlace that simply halves the vertical
resolution and then interpolates between the fields. This can be toggled
on or off.
The reasons for being so basic is:
- Speed, very quick code running in OpenGL
- It would seem the highest quality deinterlacers are temporally based
which doesn't make much sense for the viewer, particularly since we can't
double the frame rate since our timecode is fixed to the frames.
Higher quality interlacing/deinterlacing will be present in the actual
renderer.
Implements the following:
- Sequences have pixel aspect ratios that work in tandem with footage PARs
to render footage correctly. Viewer and export also acknowledge PARs
- Sequences can have interlacing settings. This doesn't do anything yet,
eventually the renderer will need to interlace/deinterlace/reinterlace
appropriately in order to conform all the footage to the sequence. Export
acknowledges interlacing, but this only affects metadata, not the image.
Shifted from CacheTask to functionality built into RenderBackend. It was
a lot easier to control behavior this way without having to juggle a ton
of threads and race conditions.
Could likely be multithreaded further.
Improves stability and cache reliability.
Earlier iterations were prone to skipping necessary signals (usually
leading to some sort of assert fail), particularly when track
optimizations were used. Those optimizations have been moved to the
viewer node so there's a higher degree of control over which signals
get optimized and in which ways.
Features a lot of timeline-related cache optimizations as well as general
optimizations and improvements in timeline behavior. Should improve
usability significantly.
A huge optimization that ensures only the parts of a node graph that have
changed get pushed to the renderer. For thread-safety, the node graph is
copied elsewhere so that users can make changes asynchronously and the graph
can update when its threads are ready. Up until now, if an input value changed,
every node's values would be re-copied, or worse, if a connection was changed,
the entire graph would be recopied. This has been negligible in testing since
we've been largely testing with small graphs, but for massive projects, it's
important that this be as optimized as possible.
functions
Indexing is a lengthy process and had a high chance of getting RenderWorkers
stuck doing it rather than being responsive to cache requests. This commit
introduces a system where workers never index media, but instead signal that
media is not ready to their RenderBackends which ensure that the media gets
indexed and re-queues the affected frames when those indexes are ready.
When dragging a value in the UI, we use a "single frame update" because we want
to prioritize the currently visible frame to give visual feedback as soon as
possible. Previously, we generated a single frame InvalidateCache() signal
from the widgets themselves, but this had the major downside of not necessarily
emitting the time that the viewer was actually showing (due to either node time
transformations or times differing between the effects panels and the viewer
panels). Now, we send a different signal that viewers can handle themselves to
update the time that they're currently showing. This means the fast updating
will work no matter how many viewers are connected at whatever time each viewer
is set to.
To aid generating a cache ID, each viewer node needs a UUID. Previous iterations
tried to hash a name and time, but a UUID is a much more efficient way to do
this.
Since the nodes won't be holding any rendering data themselves in this system,
we may as well enforce some level of non-write access by setting all the
functions to const. They were already const-friendly, they just weren't
labelled as such.
Useful for detecting when a graph needs recompiling, in tandem with the
"InvalidateCache()" signal when necessary, this signal ripples through the
nodes when any of the connections change which will likely need handling by
the renderer.
Both audio and video renderers were working off the same invalidation signal
(i.e. changing audio would also trigger a re-render of the video). This is
obviously suboptimal and now they are separate.
The new rendering pipeline strives to simplify the nodes themselves as much
as possible and move much of the logic to an external rendering engine. This
change removes all of the responsibilities that no longer belong to the
nodes themselves and will soon be folded into the renderer.
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