On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:36 PM Steven Boswell II <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm using kdenlive 18.12.3 and mlt 6.12.0, as supplied by Fedora Core 29. > Presently, I'm using kdenlive for the most complex project I've ever > attempted, so I'm having issues I haven't had before. > > Every once in a while -- and I don't know the reproduction steps -- one of > my video clips will stop working. It still appears in the timeline, but it > doesn't display any more, and won't export. I can't move it, and if I try > to resize it, it disappears, and I get a message "Error resizing clip". I > can reconstruct the clip from its original source, but it's a pain. > I have experienced this problem a number of times. Each time has been while working on a complex project, and each time I have not been able to reproduce it. The steps leading up to the problem are not consistent either, though the work I am doing at the time often involves the Speed effect. The only way I have found to reliably recover is to quit kdenlive and reload the project. When I do this the affected clip has disappeared. I have a loose theory that the clip no longer really exists, but its representation in the timeline remains due to a bug. I have never reported this as a bug as I have been unable to reproduce it, or describe a real pattern to the steps leading up to the bug occurring. Like you I was running Fedora 29, with the version of kdenlive packaged by Fedora. I have recently upgraded for Fedora 30, so am no longer certain which version of kdenlive I was using when the bug occured. I am planning to upgrade to the refactored branch releases once I have completed two projects, currently in flight. Al > > Also, is there any way to enter a group, so that the clips in there can be > edited individually without having to ungroup them? I'm thinking of > something similar to what LibreOffice Draw has with grouped shapes -- I can > select a group, and enter it, and all other shapes are grayed out, and I > can edit the contained shapes (or enter sub-groups). I've grouped my clips > by scene, but if I want to edit something in an older scene, I have to move > surrounding groups away from it, so that I can ungroup it, edit its clips, > and then re-group them without the danger of including nearby clips I > didn't intend. > > > Thanks for any help, and thank you very much for creating this editor. I > wish I had time and energy outside of work to contribute programming help, > but I have one of those more-than-full-time jobs. > > Steven Boswell > > -- Alistair Riddoch [email protected] http://alistairriddoch.org/
