Image streams were initially separated from video streams, but they're now
joined with a parameter defining if they're a still image, image sequence,
or regular video. The image sequence import process has also improved so
that if images from the same sequence are imported too, they'll either be
ignored or the user won't be asked again for those if they should be an
image sequence (fixes#1193). Also shifts decoder "probe" process to return
an item, useful if the decoder returns a non-footage item.
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.
Since auto-cache events start and stop fairly frequently (and are somewhat
heavy to create/destroy), we can save a lot of cycles over time by sharing
the same backend between them all.
The nodes now have more control over how their accelerated shaders/sample
functions are run, as well as how items are popped off the value tables.
This allows for various optimizations that we didn't have access to before.
Fixes a common segfault where destroying a node may ripple a disconnect
signal up the graph and trigger something to try to access its
(now-destroyed) parameters.
The first in many NodeView improvements. Up until now, nodes have been forcibly
auto-arranged, which has worked as a reasonable stop-gap just so that all the
nodes are visible during testing/development. However this does not make a good
user experience.
We move the auto-arrange code to a manual function that can be used when the
user or program deems it necessary, and also abstract the node positions so that
the view can ultimately determine the exact amount of spacing (useful for
changing DPIs) or orientation, so users can direct the flow whichever way they
want.
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.
As opposed to simply leaving all values in the table, nodes can now "take"
values that they use to free up memory (e.g. "taking" input buffers if they're
used to produce an output buffer).
This is a fairly large change, expect regressions.
Implemented the ability to copy/paste blocks/clips in the timeline. This did
require some large scale changes and reworking of the copy/paste system
introduced a few commits ago, but should be largely functional now.
Since the node graph can have transform cross nodes, input keyframes may occur
at a different times requiring transforming between sequence time and media
time. This commit implements such a mechanism in all UI classes that need it.
Should address any XML parsing issues and allows for simpler, more maintainable
code. Should also address a crash that could occur when pasting nodes that had
inputs that weren't copied.
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.
Footage is a special case where the node parameters can reference objects that
exist outside of the graph. Therefore specific code is needed to
serialize/deserialize.
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