It's been a long time since my last post, so here's a small update of what's going on.

I've spent a lot of time trying to get the basic architecture of the software designed, but there are still lots of challenges. Here's the major new changes:

• Every keyer/effect etc. will be plugin based. This means that you'll get lot's of different effects/keyers to chose from. This will also make it much easier for me to implement new keyers/effects. When the plugin SDK is mature enough I will release it to the public, and hopefully we'll see some third-party plugins!

• A big step closer to a compositor. You'll have much more freedom in how the keyers/effects are used together. It will not be totally freedom like in a node based compositor, but will have a simple static pipeline for combining keyers/effects in a way that is practical/fast when keying.

• The software will be layer based. Instead of having a foreground and a background object, you can have f.inst. several foreground layers combined with a background.

• New timeline with keyframe editing. This gives you better control over your roto-keyframes and along the way I'll implement keyframes on all the modules.

As you can see, all these changes are big ones, so it'll take some time before it's finished. To save some time I've decided that there'll be no backwards compatibility, since the changes are just too big.

Also, I'm considering calling it "CineGobs Compositor v. 1.00" instead of "CineGobs Keyer v. 3.00", but I'm still undecided.