An Intro to Video Editing with Kdenlive Part 1: Installing Kdenlive and Walkthrough

Apologies in advance for the length of the video. I wanted to make sure I gave as much information on the layout of Kdenlive as possible. I'll try to be short and informative on the future episodes.

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[glennSuperdude]

Thanks so much for your video tutorials. As a newbie to KdenLive, they were invaluable!

I was able to put together a video for my band Superdudes.

[thisweekinlinux]

@glennSuperdude Congrats, man! Just watched your video, and it looks/sounds awesome. Great band!

[JuarezMagic]

i downloaded it and it said MLT's SDL module not found. Please check your MLT install.

[thisweekinlinux]

@JuarezMagic Sorry for the delayed reply. There's a bug in the version included in Ubuntu 11.10 that the version of MLT Ubuntu provides doesn't have SDL in it. You're supposed to be able to install using the sunab PPA, but the "release" one didn't work for me. I had to use his kdenlive-svn ppa.

Still, it's worth trying this. Go to a terminal and copy/paste this in:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kdenlive

[CallibLCarver]

@thisweekinlinux Could you tell me how to update the MLT to 7.6? It is at 7.4 or is that the problem with the new 11.10 ubuntu Kdenlive?

[thisweekinlinux]

@CallibLCarver Did you install from the sunab PPA I mentioned in the previous comment? That should have the 7.6 version of MLT in it

[zarathustrajohnson5]

Dude, do NOT apologize for the length of these videos! The length is GREAT! This was exactly what I was looking for: a comprehensive introduction to the basics of Kdenlive. I didn't know anything, not even where to begin, so a shorter set of videos would have been useless to me because I wouldn't have even known which videos to watch and in what order. These videos were GREAT! Thank you very much for putting them up.

[TheLJMChannel]

In Ubuntu 11.10, it first wouldn't let me run it after installing due to some issue with MLT. I removed kdenlive and went to their website and got the codes to install in the Terminal. For those having an issue with MLT, try that route.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sunab/kdenlive-release && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install kdenlive

After I installed that way, it now works just fine in Ubuntu 11.10

[dtll84]

Kdenlive crash when I import any video. If I run Kdenlive in a terminal, It show this error:

swScaler: pal8 is not supported as output pixel format

I googled it, I've been looking for the solution for weeks, and nothing. Maybe the ffmpeg version should be the 4:5.0.1 but I don't find it.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks.

[bnleez]

Thanks for the series on Kdenlive. What rendering profile(s) do you prefer for uploading videos to YouTube and BlipTV?

[CallibLCarver]

@thisweekinlinux You fixed kdenlive! WOOT! I am new to Ubuntu, literally 30ish hours under my belt with this new OS, and now my favorite OS. I do video & photo work so this made my day.

[mattgeb84]

how do i install the newest version of mlt, kdenlive wont start until i install mlt

[getjiggy211]

@thisweekinlinux In fairness Kdenlive is very good for making very accurate visual and audio edits (much more accurate than in Windows moviemaker) & I guess moviemaker is just as unreliable. I realise that a lot of thought has gone into Kdenlive & it IS without doubt an achievement. I'll try the latest version when I next need to edit or produce a movie. I'm sure Kdenlives' instability is probably caused by the operating system & not by the program itself. Thanx for your info & suggestion.