Frame selection tool UX needs improvement

HHK1 / PryntTrimmerView

A set of tools to trim, crop and select frames inside a video

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Frame selection tool UX needs improvement #4

Open HHK1 opened 7 years ago

HHK1 commented 7 years ago

The frame selection tool has two moving components: the thumb view, and the scroll view. It's hard for people to discover that the scroll view beneath the thumb view is also moving.

Suggested solution:

Only the scroll view is moving
The thumb view is positioned in the middle of the view and is not moving
the scroll view starts with an offset (left part of the screen is empty) so that the frame selected when loading the tool is the first frame of the video.

NikKovIos commented 6 years ago

It's hard to people to find out that the scroll view can be moved, indeed. Also it happens, when the trimmed part is less than the video duration. In instagramm there is a ruled time line in the bottom of the video. Another solution to add arrows at the right or left when it's available to move the scroll view in these directions.

HHK1 commented 6 years ago

Hi @NikKovIos, thanks for your suggestion. Here I was mostly referring to the tool to select a frame from a video (ThumbSelectorView), but you are right indeed, it also applies to the TrimmerView. I know that this project: https://github.com/itsmeichigo/ICGVideoTrimmer implemented something with a ruler. If you feel like doing something similar here that would be a nice addition.