Hi Simon, I am just finishing such a project, with a few (~15) video files from 2 cameras, each file in the 2GB range.
My workflow is this, and it assumes that you will watch the whole thing at least once fully: 1- import the videos in full as clips into a project 2- optional: if playback is a bit slow, then switch on proxy clips, and wait for them to be computed. 3- I then prepare a video track called "stock", and watch the clips. While it's playing I use keys to set in- and out-points. When I press 'out', the clip is dragged to the timeline (just drag the clip monitor view to the timeline, it will add a clip taken between the current in and out points). [see this <https://kdenlive.org/user-manual/quickstart-guide/first-project/dragging-clips-timeline> ] Once the clip is in the timeline, set the current position to 'in' again, and press play. If I want to skip material, I just wait until I get to the end of junk, then press 'in' again. At that point, I'm not worried too much about exact frame cuts, I merely want to strip off the material I will not use (I had one camera in hand, and I did not stop it even while walking around the public at the event, so I filmed a lot my feet...) You will end up with a chronological set of clips on the timeline, which you can then further edit, reshuffle, and push together if you did not do it yet when adding them to the timeline. I am using Kubuntu 13.04 (I know, should be updated...), kdenlive 0.9.8 and have a ShuttlePro-2 <http://ergo.contour-design.com/ergonomic-mouse/shuttlepro-v2> so I am actually not sure about the keyboard shortcuts, but I know they exist or can be configured. --paf On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Simon Cropper < simoncropper at fossworkflowguides.com> wrote: > Thanks Vincent, > > I appreciate your comments. > > My responses in-line. > > On 02/12/14 18:12, Vincent Pinon wrote: > >> Le mardi 2 d?cembre 2014, 16:03:36 Simon Cropper a ?crit : >> >>> Pretty typical, I presume. >>> >> Absolutely common ;-) >> >> I presume when you create a clip with the Clip Monitor and save it is is >>> only saving the start and end time, rather than making a copy of the >>> segment. >>> >> That's it: "Non-LInear Video Editing" (what KDE-NLiVE means) >> >> Consequently I expect there would be memory constraints to >>> consider on a large project. Multiple files in memory would eventually >>> result in a crash. >>> >> Segments are not held in memory, the multimedia backend (MLT) pulls only >> the >> displayed frame at any moment (roughly). >> If not, this is a memory leak bug: this sometimes happen under certain >> combinations of MLT version & codec library version (ffmpeg/libav). >> Unfortunately the situation in Ubuntu 14.04 is such :-\ => add >> ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release or upgrade to 14.10. >> > > I am currently using http://ppa.launchpad.net/ > sunab/kdenlive-release/ubuntu as my repository > > Is it better to create a clip and save it to disk, then create the final >>> product using the smaller clips? >>> >> No, don't alter your original media. >> >> If your computer seems unable to provide comfortable editing, try to >> enable >> "proxy clips" in kdenlive configuration (reduced resolution copies are >> automatically generated). >> Final render will point back to full resolution originals. >> >> Look at userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual for any info! >> > > That's great to know. > > For the record, I had searched the manual referenced above but sometimes > it is hard to find the answers to specific questions like this and the > 'Project Monitor' issue Brian helped me with earlier. Little issues that > prevent you from getting your feet wet. > > I feel comfortable now, got my togs on, and raring to go :). > > _______________________________________________ >> kdenlive mailing list >> kdenlive at kde.org >> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive >> >> > -- > Cheers Simon > > Simon Cropper - Open Content Creator > > Free and Open Source Software Workflow Guides > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Introduction http://www.fossworkflowguides.com > GIS Packages http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/gis > bash / Python http://www.fossworkflowguides.com/scripting > _______________________________________________ > kdenlive mailing list > kdenlive at kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdenlive > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/kdenlive/attachments/20141202/cf5868ef/attachment.html>
