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Is it possible to have kdenlive generate a text list of the video title names used in a project?

With a list of video titles handy, I can quickly search for that video name online, find the original creator’s channel, and then cite their channel in the video.

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The project settings dialog has a project files tab …

But that also should be pretty clear from the bin contents and (ideally) the structure of your project folder. So I’m curious about what you are doing that makes this information not already immediately ‘handy’ (in several ways) for any given project?

This seems like something that should already (more or less automatically) be Simple™, so if there’s some use case where it’s not then there’s probably food for thought there somewhere …

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I’m assuming you are downloading these videos off YouTube, and displaying them in your video. Is that correct? So the title of the YouTube video is used as the downloaded video file’s name, and displayed in the Kdenlive Project Bin, right?

I don’t think this is a job for a video editing software, and the process described here isn’t the most efficient.

It would actually be a lot simpler to either use a citation management tool or social bookmarking tool, and generate your list of citations that way.

Zotero is fantastic for keeping track of all kinds of references (including YouTube videos), and is free and open source. It has a handy browser add-on which allows you to save online content to the desktop app with a simple click of a button. Your collections can also be shared publically, and you quickly generate a works cited / bibliography list in the academic format of your choice.

For something a little less academic, I recommend Raindrop. Also free, also open source, also allows you to quickly save links via browser plugins and mobile apps. You could create a collection where you save YouTube links as you browse, and then export that collection as a text file. Raindrop also allows for public collections, so you could simply provide a link to a page listing all the cited videos.

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I have a whole bunch of vids in the Project Bin, but only some of them are used. I just want to cite the used ones. The Project Files tab is useful, and I can use that (I didn’t look there earlier, so thanks), but it has a long list of too many clips used from the same video plus graphics. I suppose I could filter them out manually.

That is correct. Just want to cite the ones that make it to the final video (many of them won’t), ideally without listing multiple segments from the same video, or any other files. I’ll check out some of your links. Thanks.

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Why do you have the unused ones (still) there? If you really don’t need them that same dialog can delete them for you once your project is ‘completed’.

There isn’t really an option to list them separately - though now that we have support for multiple sequences, that might be a valid wishlist item for that tool, to sort or filter by the sequence(s) they are used in.

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Once you’re done with your video, you can remove all your unused clips from the Project Bin by selecting “Clean Project” from the Project menu: (or by right-clicking inside the Bin)

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Yes. @Ron has already pointed you to the Project Settings dialog window and the Project Files tab there. At the bottom is the buttonPlain Text Export which generates that text file you want. By default, all files in the project are listed, but if you follow @Ron’s and @candidexmedia’s suggestions and clean up your project, the list only contains the files that made for the final cut.

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The project is still not finished. I just wanted to get a head-start on labelling the channels some of the videos are from, with a simple title list of the videos I have used up to this point. I was hoping for a simple list just listing the videos used, not anything else like graphics files, audio files, etc. and not including separate clips made from the same videos. I am not on the computer the project is on now, but it has over 600 items used, whereas I am probably using only 10-20 video sources that will actually be labelled.

I might end up doing them manually. I just thought there might be a more streamlined way in kdenlive. Not to worry.

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Having the project files view able to show used vs’ unused clips, and to (optionally) separate them into sequence groups sounds like a valid wishlist thing that it should one day do if you’d like to file a feature request bug for that.

It’s probably a ‘low hanging fruit’ thing that wouldn’t be that hard to implement if someone had the time and itch to submit a patch, but also might be worth looking at putting somewhere on the roadmap as a work item.

This is sounding more like a workflow thing that you need to integrate into the process of making this particular type of video though. But that said, there are still a couple of tools that might help you if managing your resources with a full blown content management system is overkill for what you are doing.

You can record manual annotations in kdenlive, including links into your timeline, with this:

But the bin itself has a few tools that might help you here, and it can and does show you which clips are used and unused.

  • There’s a little [n|t] notation after the duration under the name of each clip which shows how many times it’s used in the timeline (t = total and n = in the current sequence).
  • It has a filter option (see the drop down above it) which lets you filter by type and usage - so you can make it show only the used video clips. And a search box that lets you filter by name patterns.
  • And you can create arbitrary folders in it yourself which you can move your clips around in to manually sort them by any criteria you please.

Handling the sort of project complexity that you’re talking about is something we should try to make as easy as possible (my biggest projects are similar, many hours of raw footage in many hundreds of individual clips with only a small proportion of all that ending up in the final edit), so where you do see things we might do to help make that easier, please do bring them up. Even if things don’t change immediately, it’s stories like that which guide long term decisions about how things should be done and what should be supported.

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