Pihlaja View is a small film post production tool made with D

[Bill Baxter]

Very nice!   I love the flipping dialog effect!

--bb

On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Jonas Kivi <seewebsite at foremail.fom> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I've made a small utility application for film post production purposes.
> It's called Pihlaja View.
>
> It's just a viewer for DPX image sequence files (and other formats too),
> which are the end product of data-scanning film. There's also a small
> EDL-editor inside it. EDLs are Edit Decision Lists which are used to
> transfer editing data between different tools. This particular EDL-editor is
> best in sorting out finished EDLs for data-scanning. (You would have guessed
> by now, that I used to do a lot of data-scanning of film...)
>
> Anyway, there are not that many features, but the UI is quite flashy. It's
> done entirely in OpenGL with a GUI library currently known as Rae. See
> http://www.dsource.org/projects/rae/ for more info. Both Rae and Pihlaja
> View are "entirely" written in D1/Tango. (All new code written by me is in
> D, but there are a bunch of C libraries that run underneath, such as Cairo,
> GraphicsMagick, libquicktime etc.) I have an old slightly customized version
> of GtkD to handle bindings to Cairo, so Rae examples might not compile out
> of the box with current GtkD, but with just a little extra effort you might
> be able to pull it through.
>
> Rae is licenced under MIT/X11, but Pihlaja View is proprietary (sorry...).
> I've set up a little website where you can see Pihlaja View in action:
> http://pihlaja.org/
>
> Check out the screenshots and the video (which can be seen in blurry HD on
> Vimeo). And if you have Mac OS X 10.5 (Intel) you might want to try the
> Trial Version. Linux and Windows versions coming later... hope. (I have it
> running on Linux on my own machine, just need to get it packaged somehow.)
> This is kind of a proof of concept for myself, that it might be possible to
> do something bigger later, but I've tried to polish it to the best of my
> ability.
>
> I'll be happy to hear your comments and feedback.
>
> Jonas Kivi
>