[kdenlive] Best workflow for large projects

[Pascal Fleury]

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:35 PM, Brian Cluff <kdenlive at macrosift.com> wrote:

> On 12/02/2014 09:45 AM, Pascal Fleury wrote:
>
>> 3- I then prepare a video track called "stock", and watch the clips.
>> While it's playing I use keys to set in- and out-points. When I press
>> 'out', the clip is dragged to the timeline (just drag the clip monitor
>> view to the timeline, it will add a clip taken between the current in
>> and out points). [see this
>> <https://kdenlive.org/user-manual/quickstart-guide/first-
>> project/dragging-clips-timeline>]
>> Once the clip is in the timeline, set the current position to 'in'
>> again, and press play. If I want to skip material, I just wait until I
>> get to the end of junk, then press 'in' again.
>>
>
> I've been doing a lot of green screen stuff lately and I would like to
> have a workflow similar to this, but find that I'm having to drag the whole
> video to the time line, apply the necessary effect to get the green screen
> looking nice and then start cutting the video up. Otherwise I get stuck
> with having to set things up on the first clip and then do past effects
> over and over sometimes 100 times.
>
> Does anyone know of something I may have missed that would allow me to set
> effects in bulk on a bunch of clips... or is there possibly a better way of
> doing what I'm doing.
>

I think this is similar to wanting stabilized videos, i.e. an effect on the
video file, not the individual clip nor the track (the latter two exist).
Actually in your case, maybe a track effect would work ? (select the track
by clicking on the far left part of it, then you can add effects to the
effect stack).

My way of dealing with this is to take the full video into a kdenlive
project, apply the effect to your liking, save it (as a kdenlive project).
Then in a new project, use the saved project as a clip, and start
cutting/trimming clips from that. It has the advantage of letting you go
back and change the effect(s) of the base video and still have all the time
references correct in the edited final project. That is more or less the
way stabilized videos work, except that this last one is slightly better
integrated into the UI (no need of a separate project).




>
> If it helps with looking at what kinds of videos I have been doing, all
> the videos I have done on my youtube channel have been run though kdenlive,
> and are mostly just presentations to our local Linux users group, so they
> all have been edited in a similar style as described above:
> https://www.youtube.com/user/fone626/videos
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
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