PRO TIP: Render Kdenlive Projects in Openshot

Kdenlive has powerful tools for building your video project, but it's biggest flaw is that rendering crashes for a lot of people. Open your project files in Openshot and make good use of it's magnificent rendering capabilities. You can also import your Kino projects! WOW!

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[cerebrux]

If you have a multicore PC (dual core, quadcore etc.) Openshot doesn't use all the cores and the hyperthreding technology of the modern CPU's. It just uses only ONE. :(

In contrast, when rendering a project in Kdenlive, if you open "system monitor" and watch your CPU utilisation, you will see that it uses all of your CPU's cores which gives you faster rendering results and saves precious time.

[LinuxSpatry]

@cerebrux I did not know that.... I am running a single core on my machine

[syncdram2012]

you can run openshot on a CLEAN install of ubuntu 11.10 ONLY if you do not allow updates while installing and once installed you MUST turn off UPDATES!!! openshot will run, and it will run without choppy video and render. Now if you install kden live you just broke openshot. and will not be able to use kdenlive either from repos or testing. kdenlive changes FreiOr-plugins in MLT i narrowed it down. only update to latest kernal and nothing else! only install by  what you need and not updates.

[LinuxSpatry]

@syncdram2012 Luckily I did not encounter this issue when I ran Pinguy OS based on Ubuntu 11.04. Thank you for taking the time to point out this problem to my visitors. I wonder if anyone mentioned this on Launchpad... It may be helpful for the developers to know this so that the issue can be fixed.

[syncdram2012]

@LinuxSpatry I utterly depend on kdenlive and now can't use it. openshot was always my backup. i took hours trying to figure out how to get kdenlive to run again and used clean installs to see who was causing the problem. kdenlive cannot keep up with all the outrages updates ubuntu is issuing. its awful! To get openshot to run perfect with no choppy video or sound, backup, clean install and DON'T allow updates during install!!! important. Install synaptic and turn off updates! install openshot.

[LinuxSpatry]

@syncdram2012 Have you considered running it in a virtual machine? I know that is probably not the best answer but it could be a reasonable workaround until the problem is solved by the community.

[syncdram2012]

@LinuxSpatry already tried with the ill fated results. this is the only way i can run at this point in time on a clean install giving up my beloved kdenlive and going to my backup openshot to run. kden won't run from repos or testing period. I'm not in the mood to run another distro just to get kden going again. I shouldn't have to.

[syncdram2012]

Install everything you need through synaptic from this point onward and all your software will run as it should, don't go through software center because they install updated files that will brake your system and then you need to start all over again. I have Ubuntu 11.10 running like a bat out of hell with everything working reliably. If kdenlive is waiting for 12.04 realease to get there act together then you at least know you have a 3 month wait. sad, very sad

[LinuxSpatry]

@syncdram2012 I have found that Kdenlive is the closest thing to Sony Vegas that runs in Linux. I have my eye out on Lightworks and hopefully they will be releasing a Linux port soon.

[syncdram2012]

There is a BIG problem with Ubuntu based distros today concerning kdenlive and openshot. Both are broken when run in ubuntu. Openshot boldy screams its your hardware this does not have a leg to stand on. Kdenlive seems to not know what way to run due to the fact that with every update ubuntu put out now something brakes. I've run both kden and openshot on ubuntu 11.10 before ubuntu went hog wire with updates that just brakes everything! Forget kdenlive for now, you can run openshot....continued