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by gandreas » Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:29 am
Hm, your idea of (effectively) "weighting" a keyframe is interesting, and may even work.
What I was thinking was more along the lines of, say you had something that was reddish at viewpoint A, and you had panned and zoomed and changed some settings to make it blueish at viewpoint B. In the mean time, you also found that another location off to the side (viewpoint C) looked interesting. If you wanted to make a movie that started reddish at A, when to C and finished at B (bluish), you'd have to tween between A and B (getting purple) and then apply the view point from C to that result, and add that new keyframe between red A and blue B. What would be nicer is if you just added red A, blue B, and dropped C between the two and said "just use the viewpoint" (since you may have found C when the image was green).
Unfortunately, that wouldn't be limited to just "use only the viewpoint from C" but could be extended to all sorts of settings, making the result one huge, ugly, unusable mess.
While I avoid commenting on schedule, I do think it is safe to say that the next semi-major update will be after any sort of hard deadline (since I've got a flame update coming out sometime after WWDC, which should include any major issues with that developer release of Leopard, plus another project or two in the pipeline, a new quadrium product that may or may not be before or after it, not to mention anything that may come up at WWDC, so it would be the fall at the earliest - certainly not until after Leopard ships)