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According to release notes, version 20.04 should be able to import files from Final Cut Pro 7 xml, except on windows. You can also cut clips in kdenlive by the way, there's not really a need for another program.

Is there something in particular that you're trying to accomplish?

You may not find an exact alternative to After Effects in terms of a timeline-based video effects editor, but if you're willing to learn node-based editing, there are some solid options: Natron, DaVinci Fusion, Blender, Hitfilm Express

AlternativeTo is my favourite site to find and discover FLOSS options to things: https://alternativeto.net/software/adobe-after-effects/

i can't speak from much experience, but unless the sources are all of a single event with external audio that must be synced, i can't see why any particular frame rate is to be preferred.

kdenlive will conform all sources to the chosen project settings...

If the content is talking heads or you want that "cinematic look" then 24 fps is still a good choice as far as i can see :)

but sure, externally standardizing all clips would make sense to me as a genral idea https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/latest/technical/frame-rates.html

Hey there! I'm not at my PC at the moment to double-check for the Corners effect, but you should be able to apply any effect as a track-wide effects and project-wide effect.

Check out this article, in the section titled "Effects on Tracks".

So, you can either: - click on the track itself (and by that I mean, click on the left panel where the track's name and whatnot is) and drag the effect into the effect stack, or - click on the track and double-click on the effect, or - drag the effect directly on the track.

One of those should work. Let me know how that goes.

The devs made this post not too long ago asking people to share their work using Kdenlive. You can find links to different videos here, and reach out to the creators perhaps if you have further questions: https://kdenlive.org/en/2021/10/kdenlive-on-tv-for-a-main-national-italian-broadcaster/

When I still made DVDs, I used DVDStyler, which I thought was the least bad FOSS. It allowed making good-looking DVDs, but I had to use my own images and even graphics, because I think the ones they provide are poor, dull, and lacking imagination. But it was very useful for making menu layouts and cutting the files in VOB.

The problem nowadays is that DVD is a format whose resolution is no longer really sufficient compared to our modern TV screens, and many people don't have blu-ray players.

So now I leave my videos as MKV files, but nobody else but me plays them, whilst are still people who watch DVDs, and this packaging gives a material existence to videos that otherwise might become old files on a computer that nobody will watch anymore...

The playback is going to stutter as you add more tracks and effects. I haven’t noticed it too much with just bare tracks but definitely when you start adding effects like position and zoom. You can use the Timeline Preview feature to make playback faster. It takes some time to generate the preview since you are basically rendering a subsection of the video. If you change anything in the section that has been previewed you’ll have to generate it again.

https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-preview-rendering/

Firstly , before updating , you have to save your current projects .

On the other hand , if you will update kdenlive ,

then you will may not lose your progress in your current projects .

Is there any option inside the settings of kdenlive about updating this software ?

If not , you will may need to download for free the latest version of kdenlive :

https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

Hey, I don't know if you found a way but what worked for me was to download the software directly on their website (https://kdenlive.org/en/download/)

Well... now kdenlive is in white in the version I have which I don't like but anyway aha.

Hope it works for you!

Yes, just make sure you expand the clip once it's in your library item. Expanding it will allow you to "unzip/extract" the library item within your project and edit the title clips: https://kdenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/library-expand-clip.png

Just make sure not to move or delete the original files

You upgrade through your distro's software manager, perhaps need to add the kdenlive ppa. Or just download the appimage for your distro, make it executable and run it. You find everything at their download site.

I also heard about the change of ownership of audacity and what that means. But IIRC they took it back, or a new fork has started. I am using an outdated version so I guess I am ok, but don't use it that often anyway. Sorry I cannot suggest an alternative.

Honestly, the free version of DaVinci Resolve leaves every free open-source editor in its dust.

So unless Open-Source is critical to you, Resolve is always the right answer. The power, the features and the refinement that it provides in its free offering is quite simply astounding; so much so that you'll end up wanting to buy the (comparatively affordable) Studio version not because you really need it, but because you want to reward a company that treats is free users so damn nice.

And I'm sorry if I sound like a schill...I'm really not. Resolve is just that good. It's also the only company that provides full training books with project files for people to work through.

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/training

From my perspective. I love Open Source and I try to champion it everywhere I can. For that, I'll always use Kdenlive over every other Open Source project for quick and simple projects because of its feature set and because I'm running a KDE distro, so it's meant to fit.

But Resolve is still sooooo much better than any Open Source community based project that It's my immediate go to for anything more complicated than just dropping some stuff into a timeline and applying a cross-dissolve.

what type of clip? (file format / container / codec)

have you tried transcoding it into some other format (Handbrake) as a test?

https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

also try in a brand new KDENLIVE project, in case your other project is busted somehow....

What's the source and why does it need to be a GIF?

I imagine the core problem is that KDENLIVE just exports EVERY FRAME as a GIF.. so you'd lose all the compression benefits..

Anwyay... consider a Mp4-to-gif converter?

https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif

Ah... I had completely misunderstood! I thought it was the AUDIO that wasn't playing! My bad.

As others have noted, the next thing I'd suggest is transcoding with some of the tools mentioned. I don't have direct experience with Zoom (I may be the only person alive that doesn't), so the comment about Zoom encodings being 'strange' may be directly on target.

Handbrake is one of the more friendly things - you can get it here:

Handbrake downloads

I've only recently started playing around with Shutter Encoder, but you can give it a try, too, if you'd like:

Shutter Encoder

Keep us posted on your efforts!

"IN" and "OUT" points allow you to insert a part of a clip into your main tmieline. This page has a brief overview of one way to use them. My thought was that perhaps you and inadvertently set IN and OUT very close together.

I do not use that capability, but understand that the behavior you see could be annoying and might rightly be considered a bug.

Go to here and see if this has been reported and, if not, log a bug report.

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I thought I'd give this a try and it worked.

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I uninstalled v20.04.0 and installed the latest Daily Windows build from the download page [https://kdenlive.org/en/download/].

Hmmm, so a few things could help here:

Changing the playback preview resolution: https://kdenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/preview.gif

Adjust the project profile to match one of your clips in the bin (select the clip in the bin, and go to the "Project" menu item at the top): https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Project_Menu

Try those out and let us know if that works!

If you can export your project to FCP (Final Cut Pro) XML, then you could potentially import it into Kdenlive using OpenTimelineIO (haven't tried it myself though, so you would have to consult the documentation). I believe this would only transfer the cut decisions though, not the effects.

Another alternative, if you are set on your cuts, would be to export your project as an mp4 or whatever other file, like the other person mentioned, import that into Kdenlive, and use Kdenlive's automatic scene split function from the clip bin. You can then resume the editing from there.

That's ok, sometimes you need to use a hammer to crack an egg in Linux.

This is indeed intersting; why would you see errors when the required items are actually present in the system and the appimage?

I would recommend reporting your findings as a bug. If it is a bug, then reporting it will help make kdenlive better for everyone - thank you for your service. If it isn't a bug, then no harm done.

You can report a kdenlive bug here:

https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/

I'm using Kdenlive 20.08.2 on Mint 20 (Cinnamon edition) and all is well here with various video formats. I'm wondering if your appimage was partially corrupted upon download. I'm also wondering if your computer system spec s are up to the task of video editing. I think it would be worth deleting your image and redownloading from the official source: https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

As far as I know, Kdenlive doesn't use GPU acceleration.

>In the latest Kdenlive 20.08.2, devs add for the Linux version experimental GPU rendering profiles for rendering, proxy creation, and timeline preview rendering (Windows will follow at a later stage). So, GPU accelerated video rendering is, for now, just for GNU/Linux users, and the Windows version remains limited to CPU rendering. Also, GPU video rendering is slower than CPU rendering, so it is a useless feature for now.

Source: https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/10/kdenlive-20-08-2-released/

just set the in and out point of the clip and press v to insert it to the timeline. press it as much as you need to be added. also compare with pressing b to see the difference. ;)

welcome to 3 point editing: https://kdenlive.org/en/project/3-point-editing-intro/

Try the 3 point editing technique.

Is this the blue bar you're referring to (right below the times)? : https://kdenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/preview-timeline-step-set-zone.png

If so, you don't necessarily have to adjust the blue bar. That blue bar is the timeline preview/rendering function. What it basically does is give you an accurate preview of a sequence in your timeline if you have tons of different effects on a clip and want to accurately see what it looks like. If you're just trimming down a clio, though, it's not necessary to adjust that blue bar. You can read more about it here.

Kdenlive is open source, so if you know how to code, you should be able to access and modify everything, and even compile it yourself. Here are a few links that might be helpful:

Joining the dev team

Development version

Is there something you're looking for in particular?

Ugh that's too bad to hear 😬 I've definitely had my share of hiccups over the years with Kdenlive.

It sounds silly, but I would definitely suggest restarting your computer and seeing if that helps. If not, try uninstalling Kdenlive and reinstalling it. If nothing helps, I would definitely file a big report to them: https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/

This is for filtering! Imagine you have a hundred clips, you can rate them and then filter accordingly. It is possible to tag clips as well.

Checkout the release notes and video for examples: https://kdenlive.org/en/2020/04/kdenlive-20-04-is-out/

Hmmmm... I had an issue before where some of my transitions didn't render properly because it was in Low-Quality track compositing. In that case, I would file a bug report: https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/

Preview will stutter depending on a number of factors such as number of edits and your hardware capabilities. You can render preview to make it smoother. https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-preview-rendering/

Thanks for replying. I didn't realize this was such a big release. I am excited to play around with it. I didn't see from the release notes how to to do what you mentioned with importing the video clip but I think I can figure it out as I discover the features of this new version.

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Here are the release notes for anyone else curious about some of the changes: https://kdenlive.org/en/2019/04/kdenlive-19-04-released/

I havent used kdenlive in a while, but 19.04 seems to be the beta. Why would you update some program to a beta version before a deadline...

Anyway, download a stable version from https://kdenlive.org/en/download/

What do you mean clip duration? In the Project Tree or in the timeline? This post may be relevant to your question but I'm not sure: https://kdenlive.org/forum/how-apply-changesproperties-group-picturesitem-newbie