Re: [dev] Request for name suggestions: suckless video editor

From: Mohammed Zohaib Ali Khan <zakkstar_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 01:08:34 +0530

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 8:05 PM, Calvin Morrison <mutantturkey_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11 January 2017 at 20:12, Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
> > Greetings!
> >
> > I'm working a non-graphical video editor. However, I need a
> > proper name for the project, and I have no idea what to call
> > it, so I'm taking suggestions from you.
> >
> > A non-graphical video editor may sound a bit insane. There
> > will be a graphical tool for finding locating frames, but
> > that is as graphical as it gets, as far as I can foresee at
> > the moment. The reasons for a non-graphical video editor
> > are:
> >
> > • It's source control friendly and it's easy for a user to
> > resolve merge conflicts and identify changes.
> >
> > • Rendering can take a very long time. With this approach,
> > the user can use Make to only rerender parts that have
> > been changes.
> >
> > • No room for buggy GUI:s, which currently is a problem on
> > the large video editors for Linux.
> >
> > • Less chance that the user makes a change by mistake
> > without noticing it, such as moving a clip in the editor
> > by mistake instead of for example resizing.
> >
> > • Even old crappy computers can be used for large projects.
> >
> > • Very easy to utilise command line image editors for modify
> > frames, or to add your own tools for custom effects.
> >
> > Currently there is no support for audio, I'm not sure it's
> > actually needed, but I will investigate this later. If it's
> > added, I will only add tools for audio, it will not be for
> > audio effects, such tools already exists and are not needed.
> >
> > The video editor uses it's own format, it is a simply container
> > with the metadata: number of frames, width, heights, and
> > pixel format, followed by a magic value and the video in a
> > raw format. Currently the only support pixel format is
> > CIE XYZ with alpha expressed in `double`:s, but in the future
> > I may also add support for `float`:s for faster computations.
> > So the format is not portable between machines.
> >
> >
> > Mattias Andrée
>
> How about?
>
> sve?
>
> suckless video editor.
> simple video editor
> small video edtior
>
> or if you're hardcore
>
> fsve
>
> f***ing small video editor
> f***ing suckless video editor
> f**ing simple video editor
>

How about `Tasveer'. It actually means pictorial representation of
information and it can alternatively be abbreviated to tsvr -
Teletyped Simple Video Revision[er] (or something else with R. I
honestly feel `Revision[er]' is cooler than `editor' ;) ).

Regards,
Zohaib
Received on Thu Jan 12 2017 - 20:38:34 CET