konsolenritter
Active Member
It's a bit funny to see how long (in years) people do argue here if they feel if opacity is part of color handling or not.
OBS is a free suite. It doesn't play any role what people think here if they don't code for themselfs. Its even unintuitive if people park their vacuum cleaner in their garage/parking lot. If they do, who am i to judge about? I would never moan about...
The confusion in this thread may seem about people theoretically arguing (but being right on) that color isn't the same property as opacity in terms of computer graphics. Well, right. The trick is to understand the decision where pixel handling technically will find its place in OBS. It was the decision of the OBS developers to establish a common, versatile and universal method named PLUGIN, just to be collected in a section named "filters". So, to simple say, the/a plugin handling each pixel in color correction is the (only technically spoken) simplest way to handle opacity (alpha) in the same place/code.
Me, for example, do open the filters section of a/every source even /at first/ if i look for a way to handle modifications on the sources content. IMHO its the most convenient place for me. Its totally convenient for me too that (for instance) lower thirds are handled by a separate dock. I understand why they do it there. IMHO i would find it very unintuitive if opacity (for instance) would be handled by a dock instead of the filters section.
And there are still more technical reasons why that happens. The order of sources and the order or filters per soure determine the order/layering the way how pixels are calculated and modified to the final output pixel that leaves the mixing stage. As all might (/might/) know opacities behaviour strongly belong to the order/layering. So its the right place there in the filters section. Remind: The wish to have it elsewhere in the OBS may render the effort to code it the right way for the programming people unbelievable higher then.
All is good! And as long as people find their answers thru search engines it keeps perfect. The controversal thing would be to have /no/ solution at hand. Then this discussion would have gone to /dev/null long ago.
OBS is a free suite. It doesn't play any role what people think here if they don't code for themselfs. Its even unintuitive if people park their vacuum cleaner in their garage/parking lot. If they do, who am i to judge about? I would never moan about...
The confusion in this thread may seem about people theoretically arguing (but being right on) that color isn't the same property as opacity in terms of computer graphics. Well, right. The trick is to understand the decision where pixel handling technically will find its place in OBS. It was the decision of the OBS developers to establish a common, versatile and universal method named PLUGIN, just to be collected in a section named "filters". So, to simple say, the/a plugin handling each pixel in color correction is the (only technically spoken) simplest way to handle opacity (alpha) in the same place/code.
Me, for example, do open the filters section of a/every source even /at first/ if i look for a way to handle modifications on the sources content. IMHO its the most convenient place for me. Its totally convenient for me too that (for instance) lower thirds are handled by a separate dock. I understand why they do it there. IMHO i would find it very unintuitive if opacity (for instance) would be handled by a dock instead of the filters section.
And there are still more technical reasons why that happens. The order of sources and the order or filters per soure determine the order/layering the way how pixels are calculated and modified to the final output pixel that leaves the mixing stage. As all might (/might/) know opacities behaviour strongly belong to the order/layering. So its the right place there in the filters section. Remind: The wish to have it elsewhere in the OBS may render the effort to code it the right way for the programming people unbelievable higher then.
All is good! And as long as people find their answers thru search engines it keeps perfect. The controversal thing would be to have /no/ solution at hand. Then this discussion would have gone to /dev/null long ago.
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