<div dir="ltr"><div>hmm, ok, so the answer is "no, there is no scripting for kdenlive available" - what is of course a major omission for an open source project. <br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:50 PM <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div></div><div>MLT has a Python API, but it's going to bottom out in authoring XML if you want to re-import it to Kdenlive. You shouldn't need to be modifying the XML directly.</div><div><br></div><div>My choice of the phrase "by hand" was probably not the right one; what I meant to ask was if I should expect there to be issues if arbitrary valid changes to the MLT XML occur outside of Kdenlive's purview.</div><div><br>El 23 sept 2019, a las 10:16, DogFilm <<a href="mailto:videobrain@gmail.com" target="_blank">videobrain@gmail.com</a>> escribió:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">I would prefer a python api to editing xml files.<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 4:09 PM <<a href="mailto:amindfv@gmail.com" target="_blank">amindfv@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Are there any Kdenlive-specific gotchas here, or can you go back and forth between editing the MLT XML "by hand" and editing in Kdenlive?<br>
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> El 23 sept 2019, a las 02:58, Narcis Garcia <<a href="mailto:informatica@actiu.net" target="_blank">informatica@actiu.net</a>> escribió:<br>
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> Kdenlive is not the API: Kdenlive uses melt API.<br>
> <a href="https://www.mltframework.org/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.mltframework.org/</a><br>
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> El 22/9/19 a les 21:52, DogFilm ha escrit:<br>
>> Can I write e.g. a Python script to do things in Kdenlive?<br>
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>> I can not find any instructions about any kind of scripting n the<br>
>> obvious places... was that feature really forgotten? In an open source<br>
>> video editor? I hope I am wrong with that guess...<br>
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>> Thanks!<br>
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