- From: Silvia Pfeiffer <silviapfeiffer1@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:38:49 +1000
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 5:57 AM, Ian Hickson <ian at hixie.ch> wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Jun 2010, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > > > > That requires editing the resource. Think about it from a process > > point-of-view: you're a Web developer and have been given a set of media > > resources to put on a Website. As you put it all together, you notice > that > > the volume of the different files is different and thus playing them back > > next to each other will create a very confusing user experience. Do you > > really want to shoot the files back to the production to adjust the > volume > > settings so they are all similar? If you're under time pressure, you'd > > probably much prefer just setting a volume attribute on each so they all > > play back with the same level. > > What if you notice that each file uses different fonts for titles, or each > video is colour-corrected differently, or uses a different lens, or has a > different aspect ratio, or four are filmed during the day and one during > the night and the latter one really stands out in a bad way? I don't think > we should assume that just because we can do post-processing in the > client, it's the right thing to do. :-) > I really wouldn't classify volume change as part of "video editing". My TV remote has a volume up and down button that allows me to increase the volume beyond what the video was originally encoded in. Do we really want to refuse such a simple functionality to both users and web developers? Silvia. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100821/dc0e90fd/attachment.htm>
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