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If you’re working in Kdenlive, guides are your friend. As are the razor, slip, and ripple tools (take a moment to really learn them and you’ll save yourself a lot of time).

Also, the alt+arrow keys for navigating between clips on the timeline and ctrl+arrow keys for navigating between guides.

Finally, useful filters: Everything in Motion, Volume and Dynamics (audio fades, etc.), Alpha, Mask, Keying → Obscure (pixellate sensitive stuff).

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Screenshot of Kdenlive, a non-linear (video) editor with (clockwise from top-left) panels showing: The list of filters, with the Motion category open and showing the Fade in, Fadeo ut, Freeze, Glitch0r, Nervous, and Vertigo filters, the Effect/Composition tab in a panel that also has a Time Remapping tab. The only effect is the Free effect, set to freeze at 00:00:00;00 with the Freeze Before and Freeze After checkboxes unchecked, the programme view showing a slide with three columns: Kitten: A 💕 Small Web development kit. 🎯 Developers 🌍 kitten.small-web.org, Domain: A 💕 Small Web hosting platform 🎯 Organisations 🌍 codeberg.org/domain/app, Yarn: A 💕 Small Web personal social network app. 🎯 Everyday people, The Guides panel showing a list of timecode and Guide titles: e.g., 00:12:00:05 Still: ‘The apps are…’ 00:12:08:18 Transition: Kitten, description, 00:12:09:17: Still, Kitten, description, etc., The Audio Mixer with levels for A1, A2, and Master, the project timline with two tracks of video and one track of audio and the various guides marking important locations in purple, and, finally, the Project Bin showing various clips (screencasts and screenshots).
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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PS. One thing that caught me out: the default project setting was for 1080 resolution at 25fps. Make sure you set it to 30 (or 60 if you’re a gamer, I guess) if you need to and not get caught out like I did as changing the FPS on an existing project throws out all your timings for effects, etc.

PPS. Couldn’t find a dedicated shortcut for centering/left-aligning the timeline at the playhead but Ctrl-plus/minus results in the former.

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Aral Balkan
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Here’s a better list of what’s affected when you change the frame rate of an existing project:

• Guide locations are wrong (offset by a certain amount). If there was a way to group all guides and move them together it would be a five-second fix (or if Kdenlive did this automatically so they were correct to begin with). As is, it’s a laboriuous process of moving each guide separately.

• Effects like freeze lose their timecode.

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Cosvak
Cosvak
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defaulting at a pal default framerate eh?

Where is this nle being developed?

Also I guess I should check this out, second time I've heard of this nle now

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Hackersquirrel
Hackersquirrel
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Takes me back to my Mac SE20 days. 20Meg of hard drive, such luxury! No booting off of floppies!
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Tio
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Kdenlive is great. I worked 3 years with it to make TROM II. They have improved the stability a lot for the past few years. From my experience it is the best FOSS video editor. Recommend!
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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@tio Yeah, agreed. I’ve worked with them all almost (started out with Avids and Media 100s at film school, then the usual suspects Vegas, Premiere, FCP, etc.) I did try a bunch of the open source ones but ended up using Lightworks earlier – which is excellent – but it’s overkill for what I’m doing. So, yeah, Kdenlive is great :)
@Tio
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Trevor Flowers
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Oh, yeah. The overflowing list of effects with no indication of which ones are basic utils. It's confusing when getting started. The folders you mentioned are 💪.
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Aral Balkan
Aral Balkan
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You can also add the ones you like to your favourites (the star button) but they’re not prefixed by group so it can get confusing as some have the same name (eg. Video fade in and Audio fade in both appear as fade in.)

But yeah, if there’s one thing I learned studying film/video production, it’s that you rarely need more than a cut or a fade.

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