Jay-Dee Python Scribbler
An app that allows one to load video files and draw on them. (Previously known as PyScribbler)

How to use:
All you need to do is load an image sequence or movie file (and/or an audio file). Try to load small short sequences or videos at first.

You can use your middle button to scrub through the time line. Using your left button allows you to draw.

You could also use the left and right arrow keys to step one frame forward and backward.

Once you've drawn enough into the images, you could hit the export button and save the file. The button is right beside the help button.

Help me out:
Don't forget to help me out with feedback. I'm interested in what shortcuts you think it should have or which features it shouldn't miss. I also expect it to be able to open all kinds of files. But in the event that you are having trouble loading certain files, let me know. I'd like to have a list of file-type it could load and file-types it couldn't yet.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback. I believe this program, once it reaches it's maturity, would be an app that all animators would love to have.

Download:

• jaydee v0.0.5 64bit (alpha)
• jaydee v0.0.5 32bit (alpha)

How to Install:

Download the file. Then extract to a directory of your choice. Run the program jaydee.exe from the 'bin' folder, under the folder you selected. Viola! You are ready!

Feature List:

1. Draw on Video
2. Draw on Image Sequence
3. Export Video
4. Export to Image
5. Frame-by-frame playback
6. Replace Sound
7. Wild-range of Video Formats
8. Onion Skin

Future Feature List:

1. Import from Youtube and Vimeo
2. Draw on multiple frames at a time
3. Points that follow features on video
4. Write text

Features To Do List:

1. Image Sequence Load Function
2. Audio Load Function
3. Movie Load Function
4. Movie Load with Intelligent Audio Add
5. Play/Pause/Reverse Functions
6. Next/Previous Frame Functions
7. Go to Start/End Function
8. Enable/Disable Loop/PingPong
9. Mute/Unmute Function
10. Scrubbing with timeslider, current framebox, middlebuttondrag
11. Frame Change
12. Zoom function and scrollbars
13. Draw onto image
14. Draw onto image with color selectors
15. Draw onto image with different size brushes
16. Draw onto image with a wacom with pressure control
17. Save project (Researching for this, I won't and can't use cPickle. But I found a QDataStream example from pagedesigner.pyw.. oh Yeah!)
18. Export to movie
19. A better GUI for loading images. Statusbar updates won't be satisfactory for this.
20. The better gui should have image previews of images being loaded into memory
21. Better scrollbar focus preservation. Cuz when zooming in, scrollbars would default to the center. Not nice.
22. A yes/no dialog box that would ask if audio found in movies should be loaded.
23. Better zoom implementation. Something that doesn't lag when in zoomed in.
24. Change GUI to use PyQT Toolbars. They are awesome. I wish I had the foresight to use them from the start.
25. Soft brushstrokes and erase.
26. List down all the process that were started, and monitor them. Make sure they are all dead before the app quits.
27. Cancelling imports needs to readjust framecounts

Shortcuts:

• Pencil Tool (Q)
• Erase Tool (E)
• Zoom Tool (Z)
• Onion Skin Toggle (O)
• Pingpong Loop Toggle (P)
• Cycle Loop Toggle (L)
• Step One Frame Forward (Right Arrow)
• Step One Frame Back (Left Arrow)
• Pause/Play (Space)
• Pause/Play Reverse (Shift + Space)
• Go to Start Frame (Home)
• Go to Last Frame (End)

If you have ideas or suggestions, please leave a comment!

Jay-Dee Python Scribbler
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This is an app that allows one to load video files and draw on them.

How to use:
-----------
All you need to do is load an image sequence or movie file (and/or an audio file). Try to load small short sequences or videos at first.

You can use your middle button to scrub through the time line. Using your left button allows you to draw.

You could also use the left and right arrow keys to step one frame forward and backward.

Once you've drawn enough into the images, you could hit the export button and save the file. The button is right beside the help button.

Help me out:
Don't forget to help me out with feedback. I'm interested in what shortcuts you think it should have or which features it shouldn't miss. I also expect it to be able to open all kinds of files. But in the event that you are having trouble loading certain files, let me know. I'd like to have a list of file-type it could load and file-types it couldn't yet.

I would greatly appreciate your feedback. I believe this program, once it reaches it's maturity, would be an app that all animators would love to have.

Things added after first first version:
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1. Image Sequence Load Function
2. Audio Load Function
3. Movie Load Function
4. Movie Load with Intelligent Audio Add
5. Play/Pause/Reverse Functions
6. Next/Previous Frame Functions
7. Go to Start/End Function
8. Enable/Disable Loop/PingPong
9. Mute/Unmute Function
10. Scrubbing with timeslider, current framebox, middlebuttondrag
11. Frame Change
12. Zoom function and scrollbars
13. Draw onto image
14. Draw onto image with color selectors
15. Draw onto image with different size brushes
16. Draw onto image with a wacom with pressure control
17. Save project (Researching for this, I won't and can't use cPickle. But I found a QDataStream
    example from pagedesigner.pyw.. oh Yeah!)
18. Export to movie
19. A better GUI for loading images. Statusbar updates won't be satisfactory for this.
20. The better gui should have image previews of images being loaded into memory
21. Better scrollbar focus preservation. Cuz when zooming in, scrollbars would
    default to the center. Not nice.

Future Features:
----------------
1. A yes/no dialog box that would ask if audio found in movies should be loaded.
2. Better zoom implementation. Something that doesn't lag when in zoomed in.
3. Change GUI to use PyQT toolbars. They are awesome. I wish I had the foresight to use them
   from the start.
4. Soft brushstrokes and erase
5. List down all the process that were started, and monitor them. Make sure they are all dead
   before the app quits.

Things I'll definately do before beta release:
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1. Fix the menu and short-cuts
2. Cancelling imports needs to readjust framecounts

For comments and suggestions, please send to redesigndavid at gmail dot com. Thanks!!!