<div dir="ltr">Hi Simon,<div><br></div><div>I am just finishing such a project, with a few (~15) video files from 2 cameras, each file in the 2GB range.</div><div><br></div><div>My workflow is this, and it assumes that you will watch the whole thing at least once fully:</div><div>1- import the videos in full as clips into a project</div><div>2- optional: if playback is a bit slow, then switch on proxy clips, and wait for them to be computed.</div><div>3- I then prepare a video track called "stock", and watch the clips. </div><div>While it's playing I use keys to set in- and out-points. When I press 'out', the clip is dragged to the timeline (just drag the clip monitor view to the timeline, it will add a clip taken between the current in and out points). [see <a href="https://kdenlive.org/user-manual/quickstart-guide/first-project/dragging-clips-timeline">this</a>]</div><div>Once the clip is in the timeline, set the current position to 'in' again, and press play. If I want to skip material, I just wait until I get to the end of junk, then press 'in' again.</div><div><br></div><div>At that point, I'm not worried too much about exact frame cuts, I merely want to strip off the material I will not use (I had one camera in hand, and I did not stop it even while walking around the public at the event, so I filmed a lot my feet...)</div><div>You will end up with a chronological set of clips on the timeline, which you can then further edit, reshuffle, and push together if you did not do it yet when adding them to the timeline.</div><div><br></div><div>I am using Kubuntu 13.04 (I know, should be updated...), kdenlive 0.9.8 and have a <a href="http://ergo.contour-design.com/ergonomic-mouse/shuttlepro-v2">ShuttlePro-2</a> so I am actually not sure about the keyboard shortcuts, but I know they exist or can be configured.</div><div><br></div><div>--paf</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Simon Cropper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simoncropper@fossworkflowguides.com" target="_blank">simoncropper@fossworkflowguides.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thanks Vincent,<br>
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I appreciate your comments.<br>
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My responses in-line.<span class=""><br>
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On 02/12/14 18:12, Vincent Pinon wrote:<br>
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Le mardi 2 décembre 2014, 16:03:36 Simon Cropper a écrit :<br>
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Pretty typical, I presume.<br>
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Absolutely common ;-)<br>
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I presume when you create a clip with the Clip Monitor and save it is is<br>
only saving the start and end time, rather than making a copy of the<br>
segment.<br>
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That's it: "Non-LInear Video Editing" (what KDE-NLiVE means)<br>
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Consequently I expect there would be memory constraints to<br>
consider on a large project. Multiple files in memory would eventually<br>
result in a crash.<br>
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Segments are not held in memory, the multimedia backend (MLT) pulls only the<br>
displayed frame at any moment (roughly).<br>
If not, this is a memory leak bug: this sometimes happen under certain<br>
combinations of MLT version & codec library version (ffmpeg/libav).<br>
Unfortunately the situation in Ubuntu 14.04 is such :-\ => add<br>
ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release or upgrade to 14.10.<br>
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I am currently using <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/sunab/kdenlive-release/ubuntu" target="_blank">http://ppa.launchpad.net/<u></u>sunab/kdenlive-release/ubuntu</a> as my repository<span class=""><br>
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Is it better to create a clip and save it to disk, then create the final<br>
product using the smaller clips?<br>
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No, don't alter your original media.<br>
<br>
If your computer seems unable to provide comfortable editing, try to enable<br>
"proxy clips" in kdenlive configuration (reduced resolution copies are<br>
automatically generated).<br>
Final render will point back to full resolution originals.<br>
<br>
Look at <a href="http://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual" target="_blank">userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/<u></u>Manual</a> for any info!<br>
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That's great to know.<br>
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For the record, I had searched the manual referenced above but sometimes it is hard to find the answers to specific questions like this and the 'Project Monitor' issue Brian helped me with earlier. Little issues that prevent you from getting your feet wet.<br>
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I feel comfortable now, got my togs on, and raring to go :).<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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