For the purposes of using the alpha channel (and other reasons), it would be helpful if I could load an image sequence as video. That is, if I load "image0001.png" the file requester would have the option of "Load sequence as video?" with an input box for how many images to include. Or, since you can already select more than one image when loading media, just select the whole range (select the first image, hold shift and then select the last image). This would be very helpful for layering effects where chroma key would not be appropriate or adequate. Of course, there are video formats that support the alpha channel but I don't think any of them are currently supported by PD.

And since we're on the subject of program features, I have a couple more ideas!

Whenever a color is needed as a parameter in any effect, etc, the eye dropper tool should be available - in addition to the normal color selection dialog. Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't...

In the motion designer, it would be great if we could set the size of the 'zoomed' box via a 'width' and 'height' set of text boxes and/or display the size of the box as it is being resized. This is useful if you don't want the zoomed box to be scaled lower then the final output video size (quality will suffer otherwise).

These are all relatively minor additions, but would be useful I believe.

Thanks!
Russell

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