[FreeJ] animated gifs, chromakey, frei0r, and *Layers

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Author: Martin Ahnelöv
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Subject: [FreeJ] animated gifs, chromakey, frei0r, and *Layers
Hello!
Freej is really great. I just have a couple of questions:

1. I'd love to see freej support animated gifs! I guess there is some
technical/legal reason to why it isn't supported already, so therefore I
wonder if there is any app that'll let me convert animated gifs to a
freej-friendly format?

2. How do you use the Chromakey blit? I have noticed that all blacks are
keyed out, so I guessed that you had to change it to the desired
hue-degree, but no. nothing. is it broken?

3. I thought there were a bit too few/boring plugins built in, so I
decided to download some more. Found Spindler's package:
<http://freshmeat.net/redir/frei0r/72056/url_tgz/frei0r-plugins-1.1.20.tar.gz> and installed it with --prefix=/usr/local, but it doesn't show up in Freej. Is this the way you're supposed to do things?

4. I got a few suggestions for the Layer objects. It would be neat to be
able to jog/change position in the MovieLayer, as well as modifying the
playback speed. It would also be great with a new EffectLayer (but maybe
it shouldn't inherit the Layer class, but the layer it's chained too...)
that one can use to change effect-parameters and similar.

Anyway, keep up the great work!

peace,
Gasten