Well said. For me Shotcut gives me the expectation as a software that’s aiming to streamline but not dumb down the process of doing things that in other software has more steps. So in Shotcut you can achieve things with a lot less clicking. For example, a lot of people like how easily transitions are done in Shotcut. Another example is the proxy workflow which may be the most streamlined proxy system of any video editor I know proprietary or not. I admit I didn’t get the proxy workflow at first but once I understood it I felt @shotcut knocked it out of the park. It’s pretty hard to go back to the proxy workflows of other editors that have a whole menu to go through whereas with Shotcut it’s literally just one button maybe two.
I hope there still could be some modifications to Time Remap to help make it more intuitive. @Austin actually touched on something I was going to mention in a post I was planning on writing. I’ll bring it up later.
Now @brian did say before that Time Remap is not meant specifically for speed ramping although of course it can be used for that. However, whenever development for a speed ramping feature is made for Shotcut, I believe serious consideration should be given to Final Cut’s speed ramping feature to use as inspiration for development of one. I’ve never used Final Cut but I’ve seen videos of it and its speed ramping feature is streamlined in a way that would fit with Shotcut. It doesn’t use keyframes per say but instead sort of splits a clip into sections with the desired speed changes and in between those split parts sections are added where the ramping occurs which can easily be made longer or shorter similar to how transition clips work in Shotcut.
Here’s a video demonstrating it:
youtube.com/watch?v=9fV9CLPoeGY
I’ve actually seen Resolve users express that they wish Resolve would modify their Speed Ramp feature to be more like Final Cut’s since it’s much faster and easier to achieve the same results. So when the day comes to develop a speed ramp feature for Shotcut, I highly recommend using Final Cut’s speed ramping as inspiration.