Greetings,
I am new to KdenLive, having worked with Adobe Premier for many years.
I am trying to figure out two issues:
(1) decrease the time between frame, currently at a default of 00:00:05
(2) Insert Dissolves between Frames. I.e., such a Wipe.
Any assistance greatly appreciated.
Thank you,
Lyman
How do you mean? Are you trying to load a clip made up of different frames, like a sereis of PNGs that make an animation?
In the current version, you put each clip on a different tracks, have them overlap a bit in the timeline and drag and drop a Composition (transition) between the two as shown below:
In the new version coming out next week, you can put two clips side by side on a track and drag the composition between them and it will adapt creating the transition:
Thank you, Paul!
I am working with High Res Stills and need to have a dissolve between each one. To wit, Up, Down, Left, Right, whatever. It would seen to be easier to place them on one Track which you said will be in the version coming out next week.
I am not finding this:
The other question I had is the default speed between frames appears to be five seconds. I.e., a series of Stills (.Jpg’s on one Track. Can that be changed? I would like to shorten that duration.
This is undoubtedly a stellar program and doesn’t cost almost $40/mo. There is a definite learning curve so your input is invaluable and I thank you for it.
All the Best,
Lyman
On the left of your screen, you should see several tabs that say things like Project, Compositions, Effects, etc. (depending on which layout you have active). Click the tab called Compositions and try the Slide transition.
As for your second question, I don’t understand what exactly you mean. Can you upload a quick recording of what you’re trying to do?
No need to upload any clips. I understand now.
Please note that once you put a “frame” (or maybe “still” would be a more apt name?) on the timeline it is not an image anymore and also not an individual frame. Kdenlive converts it into a clip that, by default, will be 5 seconds long, and will contain 5 x the number of frames per second you have set for your project. If the number of frames per second you have chosen is 30, Kdenlive will insert 150 (5 x 30 fps) frames; if 60, 300 frames, etc.
But, to answer your question: for individual clips, right-click (click with the the right button of your mouse) on the clip you want to change and a menu will pop up. Choose Edit duration from that menu and a dialogue will pop up which will allow you to do just that. See image below.
You can use the spinners on the right or click on the numbers an type in the duration you want.
Note that the notation is
hours:minutes:seconds:**frames**
So, if your project uses 30 frames per second and you want 2 and half seconds (instead of 5). You’d do:
00:00:02:15
Because 15 frames is half second of film in your project.
If you have a lot of stills in your project and don’t want to change every one by hand, before putting them on the timeline, got to Settings in the top menu, chose the last options Configure Kdenlive.
In the dialogue that pops up, the first option is Misc, and, at the bottom of the pane on the right, you’ll see a box that let’s you change the duration of image clips, which is what you want.
See below:
You can already get it. Go to Downloads - Kdenlive and scroll down to Daily Buiids and choose the one for your operating system.
Note that Daily Builds are considered unstable and for testing, but, at this late stage, the upcoming version should work well. Just remember to switch back to the regular stable version once it is released next week.
You can also drag the ends of the image to make it longer or shorter just like any other clip on your timeline.
Hello and welcome to the community, it will be very useful for you to have a look at the documentation to get acquainted with the program. Here is a link to same track transitions for example: Mixes / Same-track Transitions — Kdenlive Manual 25.12 documentation
Thank you again, Paul!
I’ll wait until the regular stable version is released next week. I take it will be v26.xxx? I really appreciate your help, thank you very much.
Best,
Lyman
Hi Trog-Troginson
Excellent, thank you very much!
Best,
Lyman
Frdbr,
Thanks for the welcome! I’m going to wade through the Docs, no worries.
Have a great day!
Lyman
Yes, that’s the right tab. In the screenshot, I used the default layout on 25.12.3, which would be the easiest to understand for most users. Based on that, you likely moved some things around.
Paul,
Thank you again and thank you for taking the time to create the screen captures, really appreciated. Above and beyond for sure, thank you.
Have a great weekend!
Best,
Lyman
Kdenlive is awesome and should cover all your video editing needs. Let us know how you get on.
It will be 26.04, “26” being the year, “04” the month.
Excellent, thank you again, Paul.
Lyman
Paul,
I will. Like I said, I worked with Adobe Premier Pro for many years but they’ve priced themselves out of the park now. IMHO, they’ve no advantage over KdenLive other than a learning curve for myself.
Thanks again,
Lyman
