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https://photography.tutsplus.com/tutorials/unlocking-the-power-of-lightroom-color-labels--cms-21876

What about some colours labels, this would make filtering files easy.
For example I could label all the files that I have finished grading green.

and the ability to filter by label

One is 100% pixels and the other is interpolated from this 100% to a higher magnification, My guess this extra interpolation step takes up processor cycles.
( and when you zoom the window to match you don't know if its a 100% pixel match even when it looks close )

I would love to see an GPU accelerated playback at some point, I did see there is an open CL branch but I did not try that one yet.

@Lars: with these icons... the reason why we don't use white icons is, that they are only visible on a darktheme OS. If there is no darktheme, your icons are invisible -> that is not usable.

Yes I know thats why I was saying its what I use personally, I like them because they fit my os style.
But for me it's not important to change any of the icons in the main app, I just wanted to share so perhaps some others who use osx dark mode can benefit from them.

Wow thats super nice to have!
I was just thinking about it a few days ago, I think at some point it would be good to have an indicator inside mlvapp that shows if a .mlv has a corresponding .mov file in the directory.

A bit like how lightroom shows a raw+jpg as a single file. Or just a little text under the thumbnail indicating the proxy availability.

A fake one from China

Sharp shinned hawk

I'm using for myself a monochrome icon set,
If anyone want to try it out let me know how it works for you.
It works best with a black osx menu bar.

Dark mode OSX mlv app:
http:/larssteenhoff.com/mlvapp/MLVApp.zip

Fork
https://github.com/larssteenhoff/MLV-App
Icons come from https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome

@IDA_ML.

Do you know that reset receipt is there in the menu, this one does your last request, just without a button.

 . yes the first time, after one time it would know where to save the file in what type of compression and what program to open with 

It would save it first yes true, and then open it in external app. ( save location would be in a set path by the user )

I have one enhancement proposal.

Now that we will have export current frame to DNG.  ( I compiled the latest from git, great work by the way )
It takes a few steps to get a current frame DNG to photoshop.

1. click on export current frame ( or use shortcut )
2. click on the compression type
3. click on where to save the file ( currently does not remember the last path but saves it on the current mlv location )
4. go to the finder to that location
5 double click to open in photoshop


How about if I could use a shortcut and it opens the current frame in the external application.  ( same kind of functionality as open mlv in external app )
I could for example press CMD + E and it would open the current frame directly in the external app. ( in my case photoshop )

So the end result would be only one step

1 press shortcut key and it opens in the external app.   one alternate method could be right click on the image editor window and have an option there open in external app.

With these enhancement quality of life in the app would go up as less clicking leads to a smooth workflow.

No just ignore what i said, the proper way is the best way 

I don't see how BMB is different enough from PNG.  ( both are debayered )

DNG on the other hand is the image raw file just in a container that photoshop understands. I'm using photoshop to test out grades with the new profiles option in camera raw.

yea I can understand  your way of thinking about how to inplement it properly.
It would nice to have the option to set the output format for still image.

How about if export still image takes the same setting as the video export setting?
So for example if the video setting is set to DNG it makes the dng,
but if its set to proress or any other compressed format is makes a PNG.

@Dmytro_ua

https://bitbucket.org/hwdbk/mlrawviewer/downloads/

This one does

Just tested the latest version, have to say it's really nice!

I love that I can quickly have a realtime preview in MLrawviewer, with a quick shortcut, works really well.
also really happy that I can locate my clips now by reveal in finder.

CMD + R to load the last session is fast, and getting a warning when quitting with the option to save is so useful,
Before I many times forgot to save and lost my whole session.

Can't you use the same code as normal cinema dng export?

Just with a time range of only the current frame?

By the way in that same menu there is the "Export Actual Frame" option.  This one creates a .png
Can you make one more option "Export Actual frame to .DNG"  ?

Many times I just want to open the current frame in photoshop as a .dng, and right now its a long process. 
I need to set the input and output range and then export to DNG sequence with only one frame.

Yes the external path has a space in it. that explains it.

Recent sessions list is also nice looking!

Super to see again the nice work! Recent would help a bit,  but I can just click on the open icon and it also show me the recent session now so thats kind of redundant.

Still I would prefer auto load for myself, but I know your not a fan of it   


I just tested the "open in external app" function and for some reason it only works with lossless compressed mlv's but not with uncompressed mlv's.  No idea why this is happening, because when I click the same uncompressed file in the finder it opens in mlv.

I just tested the "open in external app" function and for some reason it only works with mlv's that are on my local SDD and it does not open files on my external HDD

And it would be great of the open in external app can have its own keyboard shortcut. so I can just press a button and it will open n the external app.

@masc

Yes after thinking about it auto save is not really needed.

About the save button I made in the dialog, it checks if the session was saved before and if it was it just saves over it. If it was not saved before it triggers the "save as" function

And yes a cancel button would be good to have also in the dialog, I just did not know how to code that.

Same for auto load last session, I dont know how to code that yet.

As for external app, yes a Dialog window where you set the external app path is needed for that.

I ok learned how to save the session from a button 
And I made it simpler with only two choices. mostly because I did not now how to code the third choice.

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//App shall close -> hammer method, we shot on the main class... for making the app close and killing everything in background
void MainWindow::closeEvent(QCloseEvent *event)
{
    ui->actionPlay->setChecked( false );
    on_actionPlay_triggered( false );

    if( !QMessageBox::warning( this, APPNAME, tr( "Do you really like to quit MLVApp? Don't forget to save the session!" ),
                                tr( "Save and quit" ), tr( "Quit without saving" ) ) )
    {
                if( m_sessionFileName.count() == 0 ) on_actionSaveAsSession_triggered();
            else saveSession( m_sessionFileName );
       
        qApp->quit();
        return;
    }

    qApp->quit();
    event->accept();
}

Ok I managed to make the menu, I just don't know how to save from the button yet. ( just trying to get a grip of how the app works )

[Play in MlRawViewer]

Now that we have "Reveal in finder" working I'm wondering if its possible to also implement Play in MlRawViewer ( Open in External app )

the command would be the same as double clicking the file in the finder when you have MlRawViewer.app associated as the default .mlv app.

My use case is to use MlRawViewer.app launched directly from MLVApp for quick playback with audio to see the shots and then to fine-tune and export MLV app.

It could be triggered by a hotkey and with right click on the file and selecting Play in MlRawViewer

[Save and Quit]

Thanks for implementing these!

I tested it and here his my feedback:

Review in finder works perfect



In the dialog I would perhaps add here one more button, Save and Quit
And change Quit to Quit without saving

The red close button does not work on the popup. ( it should also cancel the dialog )

I would still find it easier if there was an auto save session on quit. 

And the auto loading of the last session on opening up the app.

Nice progress!

[Show in Finder]

Something not related:

It will be useful for me to have an option like this:
Show in Finder

That opens a finder window with the current mlv selected there.

[Auto Load last session]

Don't know for Danne, but for me its like this:

I would like to have an option check box in the menu:

• Auto Load last session
• Auto Save current session on exit,  or at least ask me if I want to save on exit, because right now when I close the app and forgot to save I lose my session.

Currently when I load a session the default path is not where I saved the session, which is where I expect it to be.