[Kdenlive-devel] Editing AVCHD h264/AC3 files in kdenlive

[jb]

On Tuesday 05 May 2009 02:48:20 Dan Dennedy wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Philippe Landau <lists at user-land.org> wrote:
> > Thank you, Dan :-)
> >
> > Dan Dennedy wrote:
> >> On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Dan Dennedy <dan at dennedy.org> wrote:
> >>> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:10 PM, Philippe Landau <lists at user-land.org> 
wrote:
> >>>> Dan Dennedy wrote:
> >>>>> ffmpeg -i 00009.MTS -s 1920x1080 -r ntsc -b 220000k -threads 2
> >>>>> -vcodec dnxhd -acodec copy 00009.mov
> >>>>
> >>>> Could this be integrated in Kdenlive as a tool ?
> >>>> Most potential users have difficulty with CLI.
> >>>
> >>> I would like to make a render profile that would do the equivalent,
> >>> but for some reason it is failing, for which I will investigate the
> >>> cause now.
> >>
> >> The problem was just a typo on my part. This available now in Settings
> >>
> >>> Download New Render Profiles...
> >
> > DNxHD 1920x1080 220 MB/s
> > Very beautifully done, elegant modular solution,
> > already downloaded 25 times.
> >
> >> Just add your AVCHD clip to an empty timeline with Project Settings
> >> set to an appropriate ATSC (HD) profile. Then remove any empty space
> >> before the clip on the timeline. Finally, choose Render and look in
> >> Lossless/HQ > Custom. When done, add the newly rendered clip to the
> >> project and timeline.
> >
> > Destination: Lossless/HQ: Custom
> > Is it possible to automatically give the output file the same name
> > as the input file, instead of "untitled.mov" ?

Thinking about it, I had the following idea:

In Kdenlive settings, we could have a new tab allowing users to define up to 3 
"preferred profiles", which would be pairs of MLT and rendering profiles.

Once this profile pairs are defined, a new option would appear in the project 
tree context menu to convert a clip to this format (and add it to project if 
wanted). This way, the converted clip would have the same name as original.

We could also have a new entry in "File" menu to convert several files at once 
or all files in a folder.

What do you think?

regards
jb