[kdenlive] Best workflow for large projects

[Vincent PINON]

Le 03/12/2014 00:18, Brian Cluff a écrit :
> On 12/02/2014 03:13 PM, Pascal Fleury wrote:
>> 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).
I find easier to drag effect from the list to the track header ; then a
star appears that you can click on to adjust settings
>
> I believe that's exactly what I was looking for.
>
> I had seen mention of track effect somewhere but I never could find
> out how to apply them.  I had assumed that by right clicking on the
> left side of the track and there would be a menu item that contained
> "Add Effect".  When I didn't find it I then assumed that it was
> something that was in a older or newer version than what I had.  I've
> found it now... I wonder if we could get a right click menu item, that
> would make the fact that track effects exist much more obvious.
>
>> 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).
>
> I just recently learned that you could load a project as a clip...
> that is a very cool feature that I will be making use of in the future.
Be careful that if you should disable proxy clips in the sub project
else they would be used for render
> I've recently learned enough new (to me) features that it might be
> time to another presentation on kdenlive for my local Linux Users Group.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Cluff
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