Re: [Mlt-devel] Need help understanding EDL nuances

2015-10-12 Thread jeffrey k eliasen
The video editor who was supposed to be helping me in this regard disappeared about a week ago and I have been left stranded :) I was able to use Kdenlive to produce a basic EDL for the intro, outro, and background, then figured out the watermarks for graphical frames and video talking heads by

Re: [Mlt-devel] Need help understanding EDL nuances

2015-10-12 Thread Dan Dennedy
Is it not obvious to use a visual tool such as Kdenlive, Flowblade, or Shotcut and to more quickly explore options and view its XML output to see how they do it? How about reading some things in the demo folder of the source tree? On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 11:25 AM jeffrey k eliasen wrote: > I am

[Mlt-devel] Need help understanding EDL nuances

2015-10-12 Thread jeffrey k eliasen
I am trying to build an automated render pipeline and am running into difficulty figuring out how to mix all the pieces in the final video. The documentation for many basic cases is excellent, but some of the things I am trying to do are not clear: * Sizing and positioning of text overlays * C