[Cin] A few questions about cinelerra-gg

[Stefan de Konink]

On Tuesday, April 13, 2021 9:18:27 PM CEST, mnieuw--- via Cin wrote:
> For creating animations, would one not use something like 
> StopMotion or QstopMotion, and just import the created
> images into Cinelerra? What are multiple layers for then? Or do 
> I misunderstand?

In case of "old school" animation working with cells (transparent film) one 
could have multiple cells stacked upon eachother, typically having a bigger 
background moving at a different speed to create a parallax effect. Each 
layer masks out the other one. The most simple animation would have a 
background and a foreground where the character is drawn.


>> But what Cinelerra does not really expose is the technical aspects for 
>> example one, two's, in betweens. I think you would visually want to
>> see 
>> those aspects as well, similar to metadata within the compositor.
>
> I am not familiar with animations, other than Michael Hickox on 
> YouTube, what are the technical aspects you refer to?

Things about ones, and twos... (marking for example that it is the same 
image duplicated)
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_MDprx3tOU>

What scene are we in. Just basic stuff that you would want to have on any 
serious production, including timecodes.

-- 
Stefan