[Kdenlive-devel] pitch effects

[Dan Dennedy]

On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 2:38 PM, jb <jb at kdenlive.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 27 August 2011 01:14:50 Dan Dennedy wrote:
>
>> > And the effect is noticeable. However, I did notice that some LADSPA
>> > audio effects like "15 Band Equalizer" do not work regardless of
>> > locale because it does not set a correct LADSPA id in the MLT XML.
>> > This one has a effect XML for it. The problem is in the effects XML
>> > for LADSPA. There are problems they also cause with the way parameters
>> > are set. The solution is to just get rid of them, but I need to see
>> > what the potential impact is on old project files. However, most of
>> > the old project files could not have worked anyways because the
>> > parameters are set incorrectly.
>>
>> I see there is code to convert the old projects to the new format. And
>> I think the parameters did work because I remember testing them all a
>> while ago. Ah, now I see. The parameter names from the effects xml
>> were ignored when generating the jackrack xml, but now they are used
>> to create the mlt xml. So, yeah, just removing the ladspa effects xml
>> seems best.
>
> Well, everything worked fine in my tests, so I did not understand the problems
> you had... that is until I realized that the LADSPA XML were not installed on
> my PC.
>
> In fact, I changed the CMakeLists.txt 3 months ago so that the LADSPA XML are
> not installed anymore. The XML files are still in the effects directory but not
> installed, so I guess I should completely remove them.

Ah, hah. I think my system has distro-supplied last release installed.

> So if you have problems, that is probably because you have old XML files still
> installed. You can delete them in: $PREFIX/share/apps/kdenlive/effects/ladspa*
>
> Should we maybe delete all effects XML when installing Kdenlive (the ones in
> $PREFIX/share/apps/kdenlive/effects)?

Hmm, what if someone is trying making or modifying their own or in
process of developing some.