Need help with Kdenlive and a Vid I'm working on
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Mol
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Re: Need help with Kdenlive and a Vid I'm working on
Still better than that MMO.
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Katranat
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Re: Need help with Kdenlive and a Vid I'm working on
I've been editing with Kdenlive for almost 10 years now. The video Mol linked looks pretty good, would recommend watching, but if there's something else you need help with I'd be happy to help.
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Katranat
- Joined: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:15 pm
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Re: Need help with Kdenlive and a Vid I'm working on
Ok, cool. Kdenlive has a lot of preset effects that also have a high level of customization.
All of the effects work by applying them to the specific clip you want on the timeline. The majority of them (especially the colour correction & artistic ones) are not keyframable. Meaning that if you want the effect to change in intensity throughout the duration of the clip you have overlay or fade in/out a copy of the clip that has a differing level of the effect added.
With the colour and artistic effects it's often not obvious what they do, so I would recommend playing around with them to get familiar.
Position and Zoom, is your go to effect for putting any external movement into your clip. This is keyframable so you can make it so it either zooms out or in for the duration of the clip. Or go crazy and do excessive camera shake if you really want.
Kdenlive does have Chroma Key and Rotoscoping options that are pretty good, both can be used to mask out certain parts of the clip depending on what you're going for.
Post rendering - not too sure what you mean by this, but I'll try anyway. The main thing you need to do is ensure your project settings are what you want them to be before you start editing, this will help in the end when you do render it. On my version the project settings default to: HD 1080p 25 fps, which is an aspect ratio of 16:9 and fine for most things. Though for example, if you were working with an anime source that was 4:3 you would probably want to change your project settings. It does give you a large variety to choose from, up to and including 4k, though considering most anime clips are not in 4k, I'm not sure it's worth it.
When you want to render the video, again you have a lot of options. The one I use the most is MP4 as this is a very common file type and it's playable by most media players.
You can also choose to only render out certain segments of video rather than the full project. This is helpful if like me you put too much onto the timeline and then the playback within the project monitor lags, so you end up rendering out bits of it just to keep checking that it's actually still in sync...
All of the effects work by applying them to the specific clip you want on the timeline. The majority of them (especially the colour correction & artistic ones) are not keyframable. Meaning that if you want the effect to change in intensity throughout the duration of the clip you have overlay or fade in/out a copy of the clip that has a differing level of the effect added.
With the colour and artistic effects it's often not obvious what they do, so I would recommend playing around with them to get familiar.
Position and Zoom, is your go to effect for putting any external movement into your clip. This is keyframable so you can make it so it either zooms out or in for the duration of the clip. Or go crazy and do excessive camera shake if you really want.
Kdenlive does have Chroma Key and Rotoscoping options that are pretty good, both can be used to mask out certain parts of the clip depending on what you're going for.
Post rendering - not too sure what you mean by this, but I'll try anyway. The main thing you need to do is ensure your project settings are what you want them to be before you start editing, this will help in the end when you do render it. On my version the project settings default to: HD 1080p 25 fps, which is an aspect ratio of 16:9 and fine for most things. Though for example, if you were working with an anime source that was 4:3 you would probably want to change your project settings. It does give you a large variety to choose from, up to and including 4k, though considering most anime clips are not in 4k, I'm not sure it's worth it.
When you want to render the video, again you have a lot of options. The one I use the most is MP4 as this is a very common file type and it's playable by most media players.
You can also choose to only render out certain segments of video rather than the full project. This is helpful if like me you put too much onto the timeline and then the playback within the project monitor lags, so you end up rendering out bits of it just to keep checking that it's actually still in sync...