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

[Dan Dennedy]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 1:17 AM, jb <jb at kdenlive.org> wrote:
> 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:

>> > 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.

Why 3 - to make coding up this new feature easier and more readily available?

> 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

Added or replace the transcoded clip?

> wanted). This way, the converted clip would have the same name as original.

I don't think you can make it the exact same name. Besides the
extension often changing, maybe sometimes it will not (e.g. H.264 MOV
-> DV MOV).

> 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?

I think it is good to think about transcoding like this not only as a
crutch to improve compatibility, but also for proxy generation. But
there are additional considerations for proxy handling, and maybe this
feature can be used for both, but it does require the intentional
design.

Also, in the Render dialog, we should make a simple change to run
multiple render jobs sequentially as opposed to parallel. Then, add
some additional functionality to batch transcode files outside of the
timeline.

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