Re: VICAR file r/w - status

Robin Rowe <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.cinepaint.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Daren,

> Which CinePaints are people using in the real world?

100% Film Gimp. The Glasgow software is very rough, just had its first 
alpha release last week.

> I'll work on getting VICAR into the next version of the current 
> Cinepaint, with the Film Gimp API. I'm guessing that would be more 
> useful to more CinePaint users in the short term.

Correct.

> One question: what to do with all the extra metadata of VICAR images? 
> Stuff like telemetry times, uplink
> mumbo-jumbo - to show it all in some window? I'm not sure how this would 
> be in comparison to whatever metadata appears in the other image formats.

The Film Gimp API doesn't have metadata support. We made an attempt to 
add the GIMP 'parasite' metadata-handling code to the Film Gimp API, but 
as I recall we gave up on it as too hard. A film studio in London hacked 
the DPX Film Gimp plug-in to pass metadata (the frame #) via the image 
window title bar, but I never got the code from them although I tried.

The img_img API supports metadata but is still evolving.

Robin




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