Why does KDENLiVE increase video size?

rokejulianlockhart · May 4, 2025, 11:04am

Perhaps, I’m not the sole person to encounter this:

Kdenlive renders massive file sizes: how can I fix this?

I’ve made a screen recording with OBS that capped in at about 16 megs. I wanted to trim the ends of it (starting the recording, ending the recording), but didn’t know how to do that, so I just installed Kdenlive (which I’d been meaning to do anyways) and did it there. I selected the clip, hit Project, and rendered as per a short tutorial I found. The shorter clip ended up being a whopping 50 megs.
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