[kdenlive] Comparision between Kdenlive and AVID, Premiere and FCP

[Harald Albrecht]

Re: export ... fyi, I've written a blog article about how to use Kdenlive's new library for copy and paste, including library clip expansion. This way, users can still edit any copied and pasted timeline element sets. This is from my own experience, maybe others can give additional feedback?
http://thediveo-e.blogspot.de/2016/03/kdenlive-ui-copy-paste-between-projects.html
Best regards, Harald

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Von: Sam Muirhead <sam at cameralibre.cc> 
Datum: 07.03.2016  11:14  (GMT+01:00) 
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Hi Massimo, 
this is a phenomenal post - this kind of deep anaylsis is extremely valuable and I think we're all very grateful for the work you put into it.

I completely agree with your (constructive) criticism and although there's clearly still a way for this program to go, though it is a good sign that most of the major hurdles to professional adoption can now fit within a one clear post! 

Regarding the different trim modes, there is some Ripple functionality, at least: 'Ripple Delete' deletes the selected zone between In and Out points on all unlocked tracks, and slides everything back to fill the gap: 
https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing#Cutting_Footage_from_multiple_aligned_tracks_-_Ripple_Delete

The only important workflow issue which I think wasn't covered (though you somewhat touched upon it in the 'nesting' section) is copying cut clips and edited sections between different projects.

I see that in 15.12 there's an 'export' option which creates an MLT playlist of part of a timeline, but this doesn't provide the same flexibility as copying a complex section of different clips, transitions and effects on different tracks and pasting *exactly that* into another sequence, so that individual clips can still be adjusted.

That for me is a big issue that slows me down and stops me from recommending Kdenlive to others just yet. 

But in all respects Kdenlive is getting much better, much faster than in previous years, so many thanks to JB, Vincent, and the other code contributors, as well as the active community making tutorials, writing documentation, working on design, writing bug reports and doing great work like this, Massimo!


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