[kdenlive] Best workflow for large projects

[Pascal Fleury]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2014 at 9:27 AM, Vincent PINON <vincent.pinon at laposte.net>
wrote:

>
> 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 think the menu item would help make the feature discoverable. The
drag/drop itself is no more discoverable, neither for track effects nor for
adding the current in-out section to the timeline by dragging the clip
monitor view to the timeline.



> >
> > 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
>

True, I forgot about this...


> > 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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