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.
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 …
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.