Proposal: Using compositor nodes on VSE strips

Blenders compositor is in serious need of a re-architecture. Its literally unusable for anything but the most basic slap comps.

  • No caching, each change triggers re-render of the entire graph. This is just terrible.
  • No On-screen controls for widgets like transforms.
  • No spline/tracker/roto embedded into the compositor viewer, its literally the place your eyes are when you are working. Working on roto-shapes outside of the final comp is just wrong on so many levels.
  • No temporal tools (frame offset, frame hold etc)
  • Better multichannel workflows.

Been hammering on this topic before:

And maybe then, when all that is done is it even worth discussing bringing it on top of the VSE.

Imho.