A video editor.

It’s okay, but awkward and inobvious.

KDE Non-Linear Video Editor
KDE and dbus-burdened.
Uses PIAVE.

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2021-03-18 – 20.12.3 standalone on Windows 10
2021-02-17
- What the fuck is “安装程序 20.12.2”?
- How do I download this for Windows 10? I see there’s a nightly, but I don’t want that. Fuck this.
2010-09-10 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux 32bit 2010.1, updated 2010-09-09.

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1 2021-03-18 – 20.12.3 standalone
2 2010-09-10 – (version not recorded)
3 2009-01-18

2021-03-18 – 20.12.3 standalone ∞

I had to manually look for bin/kdenlive.exe and make a link.
It started up as a partial window offset into my other monitor. Sad.
Apparently dbus stays around when it’s exited; fuck that.

It’s “okay”, but overall it’s awkward and inobvious. Generating blank space with text doesn’t really work all that well. Cannot have effects on only a segment of a clip; you must split a clip and do that. I don’t even know how to join clips afterwards if you change your mind.

2010-09-10 – (version not recorded) ∞

To get full functionality:

\smart-root install dvdauthor recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop

For the default video standard, I chose HD 720p 25 fps

It’s strange, but on mouseover is when you get extra information for the video resolutions. It would have been nicer to see all that information in another column, and even to be able to sort by that other information.
- Hell, suggestions would be nice. What do I use for YouTube? Oh, I have to check my notes.. but the program has that info elsewhere, why not here?
It’s annoying/impossible to add a clip to the stard of my project. It’s easier for me to drop it anywhere, and then drag it to the left.

Kdenlive versus OpenShot ∞

OpenShot can import Kdenlive, but the reverse is not true. Wtf, they both use the same MLT framework. Boo.
WAY easier to resize clips. It’s so refreshing to not need to mouse over, click a tool, mouse back and drag the edge, then mouse out and click the pointer tool. Openshot was pissing me off.
The “snap” is much better. It’s trivial to align items between rows, even rows that aren’t next to oneanother! Openshot’s is.. flaky at best.
Adding effects by clicking one of the corners of the present clip is a really great interface. Openshot makes you drag out a transition item manually.
Double-clicking transitions is not an obvious thing to do to pull up their length. Openshot has an obvious menu item.
Having to specify video vs audio tracks doesn’t make any sense. I can easily negate the video or audio quality on that track-row. Why bother me with the extra prompt? Openshot does this better.
If you create a dissolve effect, it automatically make it the width of the item underneath it. Very smart. Openshot doesn’t do this.
A title overlay automatically has a composite added. Awesome! Even when I resize the title it automatically resizes the composite too!
Kdenlive doesn’t let me check the properties / edit a title clip right on the timeline. I have to go find it in the project tree. Boo. Openshot lets me edit a clip within the right-click context menu.

Cannot re-use a title ∞

https://web.archive.org/web/20120526021817/http://www.kdenlive.org:80/forum/re-using-titles

I’m a new user, so it’s possible that I have not found the instructions for this yet.

My goal is to re-use the placement/formatting of a title clip in multiple places in a project and in other projects. I do still want to be able to update the text or many any changes I like for each unique instance.

So I would have a “title style” for headers, footers, etc.. and I can easily re-use it again and again, changing the text each time.

Things which I have tried:

Copying a clip – This makes a ‘link’ back to the original. I am expecting a completely new object to be created which can be separately-edited.

Template Title – This seems to make a static copy of a title which can be re-used by different projects. It is, however, not editable.

Editing and copying – When I edit a title clip, first off control-a doesn’t select everything so I have to manually select every component and copy. However, I cannot open up another instance of the editor (e.g. edit another title clip) to paste. When I exit editor1 and open editor2 the copy buffer has been emptied.

Since the title isn’t a separate file, I can’t manually copy+rename it.

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What is the right way to avoid manually re-creating my titles every time for every project?

Simultaneous fading in and fading out ∞

Other phrases:

Stacking overlays
multiple transitions
multiple fades

The problem ∞

What I see is:

Title composite-A overtop of image-A.
Title composite-A is removed.
Image-A transitions into image-B.
Title composite-B appears.

What I want is:

Title composite-A overtop of image-A.
(Title composite-A and Image-A) BOTH transition into (image-B and title composite-B)

This is what I see:

Title composite-A overtop of image-A.

Title composite-A is removed.

Image-A transitions into image-B.

Title composite-B appears.

I don’t like the harsh disappearance of title composite-A and the harsh appearance of title composite-B

The solution ∞

The solution was easier than I thought, once I figured out how to properly layer everything in the way I wanted.

Every individual clip needs to be on its own line.
Every transition needs to be on its own line.

So to solve this, I added more lines!

Title composite-A overtop of image-A.

Title composite-A begins to fade out.

Image-A transitions into image-B

Title composite-B begins to fade in.

Title composite-A continues to fade out.

Image-A continues to transition into image-B

Title composite-B continues to fade in.

Image-A is gone. Title composite-A is gone.

Image-B fully-appears. Title composite-B is there.

So again, what I did was to ensure there was more working space (more lines), and I layered everything neatly. This worked out quite well.

2009-01-18 ∞

Their instructions fail hard. Come on people, don’t you try your own instructions?!

svn co kdenlive.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/kdenlive/branches/KDE4
cd KDE4
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr

… fail fail fail

CMake Error: ERROR: Could not find KDE4 kde4-config

Bah, this requires KDE4 anyways. Nevermind.

Footnotes

was https://forum.kde.org/viewforum.php?f=262 [ ↩ ]

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