does kdenlive offer any scripting capabilities / programming api?

[François Téchené]

On 9/23/19 7:18 PM, DogFilm wrote:
> 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.
> 

Implementing such a feature has nothing to do with the kind of license
you release the software under but more about the way the software is
designed.

You seem to have strong expectations on how Kdenlive should behave and
the features it should implement. So instead of expressing your
frustrations in this mailing list, I propose you to bring your
contribution and editing experience directly to the devs and designers
of Kdenlive. This is more what one would expect from a free software
project that is missing a feature and I think it is the best way to go
forward with getting those features implemented.


Now, regarding scripting, I don't know what you would like to implement
but you don't need to get a visual interface implemented in kdenlive to
start doing that. You can already write python scripts that manipulate
your Kdenlive file (it is XML) and run them through the command line.
You can write import/export modules or anything else that processes your
project file this way.

Cheers,

Fran??ois