[franky]

Hi guys,
If anyone know how or can suggest something it will be appreciated as i have searched all over and cant find a solution to what i need, but maybe an idea for a pluggin, im not sure...

What im trying to achieve is.......... i want to create a peice of work im doing and track my movements when creating it, but thing is i dont want to use a screen recorder for it as i could make mistakes , pluss i may get tired and carry on the next day and so on.......... but will use a screen recorder once its finished.

is this possible as this is for a tutorial. i supose what im looking for is something like a undo button but save the undo button stages for when i want to carry on with my project.

best regards guys

franky

This post has been edited by franky: 10 March 2012 - 03:56 PM

[Griatch]

Welcome to GimpTalk!

Not sure what you are asking for here though ... how do you mean you "will use a screen recorder once it's finished"?

Probably not answering your question, but I personally use a screen recorder for showing my work progress and it works fine, also for bigger works. Just stop the recorder when you need to take a break, restart it as you go on. You can put the pieces together in a video editor afterwards.
As for making mistakes in the tutorial ... if you are really worried about this, cut your video in a video editing software and just remove the parts where you make mistakes.
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Griatch

[franky]

Griatch, on 10 March 2012 - 11:53 PM, said:

Welcome to GimpTalk!

Not sure what you are asking for here though ... how do you mean you "will use a screen recorder once it's finished"?

Probably not answering your question, but I personally use a screen recorder for showing my work progress and it works fine, also for bigger works. Just stop the recorder when you need to take a break, restart it as you go on. You can put the pieces together in a video editor afterwards.
As for making mistakes in the tutorial ... if you are really worried about this, cut your video in a video editing software and just remove the parts where you make mistakes.
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Griatch

Hi griatch,

Yeah i see what your saying, i think what i was trying to say is, try and save my history, so when reopened i can carry on.
But i think that will do what your saying, you mean slice and dice the video to the bits i only need.......... i think that will do the trick...
Thanks griatch

ive never done video editing but will give it a try.

regards

franky

[ccbarr]

franky:

Griatch's recommendation for using a screen recorder is probably the best option for recalling your creative steps using Gimp at this time.

According to the official docs page:

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Even though the Undo History is a component of an image, it is not saved when you save the image

Here is the link to that page:

http://docs.gimp.org...cepts-undo.html

I believe there has been discussion by the Gimp developers to eventually have the history saved when a file is closed. It would be a helpful feature, and has been requested by others as well. Sorry, I do not have any specifics on when it might be implemented.

Update: In doing some preliminary research on this, apparently Microsoft actually had some research done using Gimp. Here is a link to the PDF paper discussing the research:

https://research.mic...perfinal-v3.pdf

According to this site, http://www.networkwo...ity-praised-aga, the researchers even developed a prototype plug-in they used with Gimp. Also according to the paper, they released the code to the Public Domain. I don't know if anyone else knows anything more about this, but it looks interesting.

This post has been edited by ccbarr: 15 March 2012 - 07:59 PM