Updates:

I managed to make Kdenlive behave well. Kdenlive has a few confusing features. Say you add a video to Kdenlive to edit it. You do it, and that's it. But it is not. Depends what settings you have in place. If the video is in 4k then it is crazy to start and edit it in 4k. So you need proxy clips. Kdenlive can create a lower res video whenever you add them to a project. So you need to carefully choose that. I didn't and I ended up with still high quality proxy videos. And so the editing was painful.

Second Kdenlive let's you render parts of your project for smooth preview. And you again have to carefully choose what profile to use for that. Since my proxy clips were high quality and I could not preview the work very much, I ended up rendering many many parts of the project. Till I ended up with a massive project that took 20h to open. Turns out there's also a bug with Kdnelive when there are many rendered timeline previews.

Third, you have to choose a profile and resolution for the timeline preview. Not the rendering process....but the preview itself. Confusing.

Anyway, now I re-rendered ALL of the thousands of proxy clips from my project and because the work is very smooth now, I rarely need to render parts of the project. So no more tons of timeline previews. I can now work in such a smooth way in Kndelive + it opens up on like a minute. So great. I then also cleaned up the first TROM II part + started a new project for part 2. Already working on part 2.

In other news:

Mega refunded me all of the money for the account and toady I will try another approach. Already moved millions of files from one drive to another on my system. Maybe I will find a way to do again the online backups. Will keep you posted.

At times our Searx instance was not working. No results. Managed to make it autorestart every 40 or so minutes. This seems to fix it for good. Let's see...

So yeah, now I am working on the second part of TROM II. Let's see how it goes! #tromlive