I accidentally broke forum.natron.fr, and I have absolutely no time to work on repairing it.
Luckily, @patdavid had just created the Natron category on https://discuss.pixls.us, so let’s move our discussions here!
You can read the introductory message by @patdavid at Welcome to PIXLS.US Discussion for help on how to format messages, embed images (I don’t know about videos), etc.
There are many other great software forums on pixls.us, for free and open-source software that we all love (RawTherapee, darktable, G’MIC, GIMP, Hugin…). Those are photography-oriented software, but I think that compositing is very close to photo editing (and incidentally, I often end up editing my photos with Natron).
We only have one category for Natron here, as compared to the myriad of categories on forum.natron.fr (which often ended up having only one active subject each) so please be specific when opening a topic, and edit it if necessary.
For example, all topics concerning a given plugin should start with the name of the plugin, as in “Shadertoy: how to use multipass shaders?”(*).
I was salvaging useful messages from forum.natron.fr when I broke it, and they ended up in the Natron documentation, so I don’t think the Natron users will lose anything by moving here their discussions. They will even gain a lot by gathering more information about other free graphics software.
I built this place so we could bring together folks from many different projects all around the idea of photography (and cinematography!). The idea is to help cross-pollinate discussions and interactions to help and learn from each other.
To categorize your posts you can use tagging along with your subject lines. Also feel free to use the other categories as you’d like (we have quite a few based around different aspects).
One of the main reasons I started this was to remove barriers to communication and sharing. One way to help this is to not have people worry about where to upload stuff to share and discuss (pun intended). So, we’re handling all of the storage backend. Feel free to drag-and-drop any files you need to share right here in the forum (up to 100MB, but I can handle more if you need it, just ping me directly).
If you need new filetypes added to allowable uploads just let me know and I’ll make it happen!
We’re here to help! Feel free to reach out to any of the Staff for help or me any time!
Thanks a lot @patdavid!
And for those who don’t know, @patdavid is a long-time contributor to FOSS, and did most film emulation presets in G’MIC (with my friend @David_Tschumperle of course), which are available from the G’MIC plugins in Natron.
I just installed the .deb of the current verison on my Xenial Ubuntu, comes up just fine. For those wondering, it opened my raw images with what look to be dcraw parameters, so you can reliably go from there. Between the read node and the viewer node I tried a grade node, and all worked as I would have expected. Available nodes include the G’MIC collection and OCIO transforms, so there’s a rich toolset for exploration.
Credit where credit is due: it was @Mondayman hanging in both places that saw the opportunity for Natron to join us, and pinged me about it! (Now we just need to get him to hang out in some other cinematography forums and keep tabs on where we might be able to help bring folks together! ).
Hm, for me I have to say this makes things much more easy. I was lurking on the Natron discourse for several years now (always a pinned tab), without having the initial energy to create an account. I have used Natron already for a little project (attach titles to moving objects in the video) and it worked great. I had some questions, but these were not too important, so I kept lurking. Now, I got an account to the Natron forums for free . Welcome Natron folks !
Hm, checking thingiverse, this seems nowadays to be a real trend. My approach is much simpler: printing photography gear and spare parts. The first design is a holder for 2 batteries and an SD card for my little supplementary camera, but it still waits to be printed since I do not own a printer myself. I’ll show the results here when there’s something to show. And the design and freecad source files will be floss’ed as well, of course. But let’s do an iteration first, there may be some corrections required.
Hi @devernay,
Is there any way to access the archives of forum.natron.fr? At least in read only.
I am particularily interested in this page: https://forum.natron.fr/t/why-change-natron-licence-to-gpl-v2/160
It is listed as a note in the Wikipedia page of Natron, and has not been cached by the Wayback Machine. I don’t know what exactly is in it, but I think it deserves to be accessible somewhere.
@rodlie Great, the release of Natron 2.0 – the switch to GPL license – dates from Aug 2016, so your back-up must contain the most part of the thread. Could you look it up for me?
Thank you. please post it to pixls.us for reference, make sure it gets archived in the wayback machine, and maybe change the wikipedia link.
Also, the situation has changed a lot since this message.
The issue now is that since Alexandre Gauthier and INRIA own most of the code, we cannot switch to another license anyway. The only possible move is to restrict it to GPLv3 (instead of GPLv2 or later), so that the code cannot be used from a GPLv2 software. Frankly have no opinion on that.
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