does kdenlive offer any scripting capabilities / programming api?

[DogFilm]

hmm, ok, so the answer is "no, there is no scripting for kdenlive
available" - what is of course a major omission for an open source project.

On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 6:50 PM <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:

> MLT has a Python API, but it's going to bottom out in authoring XML if you
> want to re-import it to Kdenlive. You shouldn't need to be modifying the
> XML directly.
>
> My choice of the phrase "by hand" was probably not the right one; what I
> meant to ask was if I should expect there to be issues if arbitrary valid
> changes to the MLT XML occur outside of Kdenlive's purview.
>
> El 23 sept 2019, a las 10:16, DogFilm <videobrain at gmail.com> escribió:
>
> I would prefer a python api to editing xml files.
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 4:09 PM <amindfv at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Are there any Kdenlive-specific gotchas here, or can you go back and
>> forth between editing the MLT XML "by hand" and editing in Kdenlive?
>>
>> > El 23 sept 2019, a las 02:58, Narcis Garcia <informatica at actiu.net>
>> escribió:
>> >
>> > Kdenlive is not the API: Kdenlive uses melt API.
>> > https://www.mltframework.org/
>> >
>> >
>> > El 22/9/19 a les 21:52, DogFilm ha escrit:
>> >> Can I write e.g. a Python script to do things in Kdenlive?
>> >>
>> >> I can not find any instructions about any kind of scripting n the
>> >> obvious places... was that feature really forgotten? In an open source
>> >> video editor? I hope I am wrong with that guess...
>> >>
>> >> Thanks!
>>
>
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