[Kdenlive-devel] Where are the default project profiles?

[Simon A. Eugster]

On 04.08.2010 22:20, Till Theato wrote:
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> On 08/04/2010 09:38 PM, Simon A. Eugster wrote:
>> I would like to add 1080/50i there. See:
>> http://kdenlive.org/forum/choosing-video-profile-which-choose
>> But where are they stored? Couldn't find anything.
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> Don't expect Kdenlive to reveal all its secrets ;)
> Actually they aren't in Kdenlive at all.

I thought so; git grep usually reveals such things :)

> Have a look at your MLT source directory: profiles/
> or on the system something similar to /usr/share/mlt/profiles/
> However there is no need to add 1080/50i. HD 1080i 25fps (or
> /usr/share/mlt/profiles/atsc_1080_50i) is the right one. "25fps" is not
> meant to be 25i and therefore 12.5p. Sounds a bit misleading though.

Is there something like an official naming?
I mean, there are 25 full frames, but 50 interlaced frames. And isn't the 
frame rate actually 50 fps? (A half frame every 50th second?) Because 
otherwise it would not make sense to store them interlaced.

Simon