Keeping Up With Kdenlive [LWN.net]

Keeping Up With Kdenlive

Posted Sep 22, 2012 15:51 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
In reply to: Keeping Up With Kdenlive by StudioDave
Parent article: Keeping Up With Kdenlive

> I find neither condition to be true here. Clips load very quickly and I have no problems aligning them on the timeline. Ditto for cuts, they operate quickly and accurately here.

I only tried Kdenlive/OpenShot with AVCHD. It it possible other formats load and cut much faster. A single cut could take more than 20s.

It is also true that I am very uncomfortable using the mouse, so dragging 50 fragments to the timeline without overlap or interleaving blank for me is a chore that will take me half an hour at best if I do not screw it and have to restart from scratch. How much time would you need to do it ?

But my point is that this is a very basic operation that can be trivially automated but is not.

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Keeping Up With Kdenlive

Posted Sep 22, 2012 17:24 UTC (Sat) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]

kdenlive snaps things you drag to the timeline so even with a crappy touchpad it is quite usable. About the manual thing, i haven't tried but I'd be willing to bet that you can select all clips (CTRL-A) and drop em at once...

Keeping Up With Kdenlive

Posted Sep 22, 2012 18:03 UTC (Sat) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

I tried that and it does not work.

Keeping Up With Kdenlive

Posted Sep 27, 2012 11:52 UTC (Thu) by StudioDave (guest, #84346) [Link]

@ballombe:

What version of Kdenlive are you using ? The Snap-to function works fine here, as does Ctrl-A to select all clips within the timeline GUI.

Best,