Can I mark zones in timeline, e.g. by color?

B.M. b-misc at gmx.ch
Fri Feb 11 13:40:05 GMT 2022


That's really a good idea, thank you!
Bernd

On Freitag, 11. Februar 2022 14:26:34 CET Vincent Pinon wrote:
> It came to my mind yesterday: you can create an invisible track (uncheck
> the film header icon) and place there color clips...
> 
> Le 2/11/22 à 13:02, AtomicCanine a écrit :
> > Hello, All -
> > 
> > A kludge to accomplish this somewhat is to make a transparent image
> > (let's say zone.png, 1920x1080), add it to the project bin, duplicate
> > it for the number of zone types you wish, and rename them as needed. 
> > Now, you can drag the, perhaps, "GOOD" zone onto a track at the top of
> > the timeline and stretch it to fit your needs.  Likewise with the
> > "BAD", and so on.
> > 
> > Being transparent, they do not affect your view, but their clip names
> > (as you set them above) should be evident (there may be a setting to
> > show clip names in the timeline or not - I'm not sure).
> > 
> > 
> > Here's something I just cobbled together
> > 
> > <stripped image>
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Just an idea!
> > 
> > Ed
> > 
> > On 2/10/22 08:25, Mehdi Haghgoo wrote:
> >> Hi Bernd,
> >> İ am not aware of any color based zone marking in Kdenlive. i have
> >> only used guides for categorization. İf someone knows of a way, would
> >> be nice to share.
> >> 
> >> Regards,
> >> Mehdi
> >> 
> >>     On Wed, Feb 9, 2022 at 12:08, B.M.
> >>     <b-misc at gmx.ch> wrote:
> >>     Hello
> >>     
> >>     Just a little question: as there are tags for clips I wonder if
> >>     there is a way
> >>     to mark zones in the timeline by color? My use case: my movie is
> >>     currently too
> >>     long and I try an approach of applying categories like
> >>     1: not so good
> >>     2: ok
> >>     3: very good
> >>     to zones; afterwards I'd like to go back and maybe delete all "1"
> >>     zones and
> >>     some of the "2" zones to get to the desired length. Now, how can
> >>     I get these
> >>     1/2/3-categories marked in the timeline? Currently I use guides
> >>     of different
> >>     colors, but they only mark the beginning of a zone.
> >>     
> >>     Thank you for any ideas how I can improve my workflow :-)
> >>     
> >>     Best,
> >>     Bernd






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