Short film entirely made with Kdenlive

[Paul Brown]

On Tuesday, 18 January 2022 17:18:04 CET François Téchené wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> As I promised a few month back, here is the link to the short movie that
> I have been directing last summer and that is finally out (under a CC
> BY-SA license)
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6i1Xk51uZVU
> 
> I made the entire post production with Kdenlive from edit to color
> grading. We used 4k footage out of a Black Magic camera and the proxy
> feature made everything go smoothly. It is a solid feature that worked
> perfectly. Well done devs!
> 
> It was the first time that I used Kdenlive for advanced color grading (I
> used to use FCP and later Blender for that) and I was quite impressed by
> the current state of Kdenlive for that purpose. I have shared a
> screenshot of the raw footage that I used against the result that I
> achieved to make it look cinematographic. Overall, it was a great
> experience and I was only missing a few filters/features to make it
> perfect :
> 
> - Luma vs Saturation curve
> - Hue vs Saturation curve
> - A polish of the way motion tracking is applied to the rotoscoping tool
> (currently it is not usable)
> - The ability to apply a composition to the result of all composited
> tracks below it instead of just to a specific track
> 
> With the later implemented, I would see no direct need for node compositing.
> 
> I hope we can contribute to making Kdenlive more professional by making
> movies with it and sharing our feedback :)
> 
> I take this opportunity to do a bit of advertising for Ethic Cinema,
> which is a french non-profit organization that I funded with a friend
> (we are 2 film makers) and that has for goal to promote free art (in a
> freedom sense of course ;)). We make movies with free software like
> Kdenlive and we release them under free licenses. You can visit our
> website to learn more : https://ethiccinema.org/
> 
> Thank you so much for making such great software Kdenlive team!

Wow! That was great François! If you don't mind, we would like to promote it 
on social media.

Cheers

Paul
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