GSoC 2024: Sprucing up the Video Sequencer (Weekly Reports)

Contributing to Blender Summer of Code
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Hello! My name is John Swenson, and over the summer I’ll be working on various improvements to the video sequencer, including linked strips, preview snapping, and more.

I’ve already implemented a couple changes for VSE, including a patch for snapping to markers and a bugfix for scene strip wireframe display.

You can check out a first draft of the features at my original proposal.

I will also update the proposal going forward based on the community’s thoughts/concerns at this dedicated feedback thread.

I look forward to improving the VSE experience this summer!

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May 27 - 31

This week I started on the patch for snapping in the preview, since Aras and I agreed that it’s the least ambiguous feature with respect to UI issues and so would be good to tackle first (still need to figure out a clear design for active channels, which can come later). So far I have UI done, and I’m currently drafting changes to the internals in as simple a manner as possible.

Also submitted a fix for preview overlay polling, which makes it more obvious that preview overlays are disabled for different display types and reorganizes the overlay menu a bit (building on Pablo’s changes)

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June 3 - June 7

I’ve been continuing work on snapping for the VSE Preview, and made quite a bit of progress.
In the meantime, I’ve been finding and fixing a few bugs related to snapping:

I plan to land VSE preview snapping next week so that it can be tested before moving on to linked strips (which should be easier to implement)

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June 10 - June 14

I have finished writing the code for preview snapping and submitted the patch for review: #122759 - Add snapping in VSE Preview - blender - Blender Projects
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Once a build is made, please give it a try and let me know what you think in the feedback thread. : )

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June 17 - June 21

This week was mostly code review and changes to the preview snapping patch based on feedback.

I also started planning out a design for linked strips, and will likely have more updates on this in the coming weeks.

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June 24 - 28

This week, while continuing linked strips progress, I found and fixed a number of bugs, improving retiming keys:

These fixes are all based on 4.2 and so should be included with the LTS version.

Linked strips functionality is nearly done and I expect to land it by next week.

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