2016-09-19

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Proxy Clips

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Kdenlive supports transparently working with so-called proxy clips in the timeline to speed up editing and previewing. Proxies are reduced...
2016-07-30

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Internally Added Transitions

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In order to provide a smooth user experience when working with tracks, Kdenlive has to perform some behind-the-scene tricks to make its ML...
2016-07-26

Kdenlive: Easy Compositing with "Composite and Transform"

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The new Kdenlive transition Composite and Transform will make basic compositing a lot easier for probably many Kdenlive users. But the ne...
2016-07-25

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Bin Clips

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From the perspective of MLT, Kdenlive's bin clips are nothing more producers . However, there is more to Kdenlive's bin clips than...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Project Bin

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MLT is the engine inside of Kdenlive. Kdenlive projects are basically MLT service networks with additional information from Kdenlive. So h...
2016-07-24

New Kdenlive Transition "Composite and Transforms"

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As part of performance optimizations for the upcoming 16.08 release of Kdenlive, Jean-Baptiste threw in a new (and optimized) transition...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Main Tractor and Multitrack

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This time we need to do some deep dive into how MLT's <tractor> works in concert with a <multitrack> and some <transi...
2016-07-23

Inside Kdenlive Projects: MLT Concepts

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In order to better understand what's going on inside Kdenlive projects, some very basic knowledge on MLT concepts isn't a bad thin...
2016-07-22

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Individual Tracks

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This time, let's find out where Kdenlive stores the various properties of a particular timeline track: MLT's playlists form the ba...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Timeline Tracks

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So how does Kdenlive projects store its timeline tracks in its XML project files? So let's look into the details of the MLT "main...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: The Main Bin

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So what is the so-called "main bin" good for inside Kdenlive XML projects? Read on for details about its special role in Kdenliv...

Inside Kdenlive Projects

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Curious about what's inside Kdenlive's XML project files? Then follow us on our journey into new territory! This post acts as a hu...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: The Analyzer

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Out of (sheer) curiosity I started developing a Kdenlive project analyzer as a pet project. A nice side effect of snooping around inside t...
2016-07-13

Kdenlive UI: Resizable Timeline Track Headers & Small Tracks -- Odds and Ends

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Sometimes, seemingly small UI improvements can make a big difference in my workflow. Resizable timeline track headers and small tracks wi...
2016-06-29

Kdenlive: Adding Meta Data and Cover Art to Rendered Files

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In a previous blog post I wrote about rendering MP4 video including meta data in Kdenlive. This is very convenient, as you keep the meta ...