[Kdenlive-devel] KDEnlive and OpenShot

Tim M tim at filmchicago.org
Wed Mar 10 15:48:18 UTC 2010


AAF would be another good choice:

http://aaf.sourceforge.net/



On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Tim M <tim at filmchicago.org> wrote:

> Can I just chime in and suggest implementing an importer/exporter for an
> existing standard such as the Final Cut Pro XML Interchange Format for
> importing/exporting projects, rather than devising a new one that would be
> used only by KDL/OpenShot:
>
>
> http://developer.apple.com/mac/library/documentation/AppleApplications/Reference/FinalCutPro_XML/AboutThisDoc/AboutThisDoc.html
>
> This of course assumes that the DTD would support a sufficient amount of
> Kdenlive's feature set (which, given that it's good enough for FCP which has
> a huge market share in the professional video editing market, I imagine it
> would be good enough for KDL) but I haven't read through it myself and I'm
> not familiar enough with KDL to say.
>
> -TM
>
>
> 2010/3/10 Hugh Tebby <hugh.tebby at gmail.com>
>
> OpenShot recently added the possibility to import Kdenlive projects but it
>> simply adds the whole project as a clip, so it's not quite as useful as what
>> you suggest. I haven't had a look at the openshot file format, but it most
>> likely would also be an xml file, so converting between one format and the
>> other should be possible, but probably not lossless (probably losing some
>> information about transitions and effects and such).
>>
>> 2010/3/10 Ryan Peters <sloshy45 at sbcglobal.net>
>>
>> On 03/10/2010 08:27 AM, el jefe delito wrote:
>>> >> I must admit I had a hard time choosing between Kdenlive and OpenShot.
>>> >>
>>> > An unlikely request, but since both OpenShot and KDEnlive use MLT on
>>> the backend, I would think that it would be beneficial to the userbases of
>>> each if the files created in one application could also be used in the
>>> other.  Creating some sort of XML-based 'standard' (maybe better described
>>> as 'common') file format for the two apps would be great and would help
>>> prevent lockin to a single application.
>>> >
>>> > Just thinkin' here.  Feel free to point out the obvious amount of work
>>> that may be needed and shoot me down.
>>> >
>>> > €l ]€f€
>>> >
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>>> I wonder if there already is one... Nice idea though; it'd make sense
>>> considering that OpenShot can import Kdenlive project files now.
>>>
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