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Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by mudkipdev »

nickjj wrote: post #70

I wish Kdenlive had 2 things: 1. A way to play back videos at 2x speed while editing in an intuitive way (DaVinci Resolve does this perfectly). TBH I'm not sure how this isn't a feature since it's straight up a 2x time saver for anyone editing a video since playing back a 10 minute at 2x is only 5 minutes of real life time. With Resolve I can actively edit / cut / etc. my videos at 2x speed playback but the exported…

If anyone has a better workflow for creating lots of captions in kdenlive please let me know. I had to duplicate each title to the media library and drag it into the timeline, because if I simply copy/pasted then the text content/styling would be shared across instances

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by dasyatidprime »

vladde wrote: post #30

has someone here moved from DaVinci Resolve to Kdenlive? how was that experience? i just was a bit shocked to find out Resolve didn't support h.264 on their free tier on Linux, and i don't want to re-encode all my footage to AV1

Is that due to patent issues? A lot of people running open source H.264 codecs¹ on Linux just ignore the patents and assume they're under the radar, but I bet a high-profile commercial entity can't get away with that. Like as a point of comparison, I remember the Raspberry Pi selling add-on license keys for certain codecs at one point for a similar reason, but that probably doesn't look like such a good strategy for a video editor on a niche platform. Then there was the thing where Red Hat had some kind of licensing deal with Cisco…

¹ I don't remember which implementations are subject to this or what the actual terms are.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by Forgeties79 »

duskwuff wrote: post #88
steve1977 wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is it? I'd say in the higher end that would be Media Composer.

Premiere is in the unique position of being the oldest video editing suite on the market - the first version was released in 1991! Much as with Photoshop, this sort of automatically makes it the gold standard.

Even if they were the oldest NLE, that does not automatically make them “the gold standard.”

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by cadamsdotcom »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #33

Kdenlive has some unfortunate performance regression when working with larger projects with many clips. I managed to track down a few of them while evaluating Claude Code a while back (mostly certain actions doing O(n) scans over all clips every mouse event needing debouncing), and got it mostly back down to tolerable levels again, but have been holding onto them because unsolicited drive by AI PRs are very annoying…

My suggestion is to do a “human summary” of what you asked the agent and what it found, maybe supply the code it generated, mayyybe.. but mostly recommend they not review it but instead, the reviewer give the PR to their own agent to do a reimplementation.

Since code is cheap now, why not replace reviewing with reimplementing!

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by pubby »

BoredPositron wrote: post #80
BodyCulture wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Be careful with any serious project, this software most certainly will crash and destroy your work. It crashes since many years and developers do not seem to care or are not able to understand how important stability for media creation software really is. Especially small and independent artists should absolutely avoid any software that introduces additional risk of project failure as one such crash scenario at an ad…

A bit dramatic for telling us you don't bother to save your work. No matter if it's avid, davinci or premiere they all crash from time to time.

I've had several instances of Kdenlive corrupting my save file, making them unable to be recovered. So no, that's not always a solution.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by BoredPositron »

pubby wrote: post #105
BoredPositron wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit dramatic for telling us you don't bother to save your work. No matter if it's avid, davinci or premiere they all crash from time to time.

I've had several instances of Kdenlive corrupting my save file, making them unable to be recovered. So no, that's not always a solution.

I had avid and resolve doing the same... I guess we just die instead of working with a proper pipe or telling the tool to also save an XML for emergencies. You will have failures like that with every tool especially in editing and VFX.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by xattt »

visiohex wrote: post #14

Kdenlive hits the perfect sweet spot for me. It's much more capable than basic editors like iMovie, but doesn't have the overwhelming learning curve (or steep hardware requirements) of DaVinci Resolve. Like others have mentioned, pairing it with OBS for screen recording and Audacity for audio makes for an incredibly powerful, 100% FOSS media creation stack. It's amazing to see how far open-source video editing has co…

Minor quibble, but I loved the mechanic of FCP taking over a second screen as a full-res scrub monitor. It made the computer feel like an appliance.

I think the Kdenlive option is to move the scrubbing monitor window to the second monitor.

Re: State of Kdenlive

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Post by MegaDeKay »

coldtea wrote: post #61
MegaDeKay wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Kdenlive being crash prone is a known thing, but for the parent to say the devs don't care goes too far.

Would it be any better if they cared but still couldn't tame them in a 25 year old project?

You make it sound like the same bugs have been there for 25 years. That again isn't fair given that many, many, many new features have been added to the project since its inception in 2002. They are also somewhat at the mercy of the MLT framework that they depend on for a lot of the heavy lifting.

And they do fix crash bugs. All the time. You can see that in the announcements they put out after each release. I think the general perception is that it is indeed becoming more robust as time goes on as new developers have come on board to help. The project is gaining momentum that it hadn't really had before.

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