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=== Clips (Video and Audio) ===
The <menuchoice>Add Clip</menuchoice> Button [[File:Add clip button.png]] brings up the <menuchoice>Add Clip Dialog</menuchoice> where you can choose video or audio clips to add to the project tree.
[[File:Add clip dialog.png|450px]]
You can add other types of clips by choosing a clip type from the menu brought up from the <menuchoice>Add Clip</menuchoice> Drop down button.
[[File:Add clip drop down.png]]
=== Colour clips === 
=== Title clips ===
=== Slideshow clips ===
=== Stop Motion ===


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<span id="Proxy clips"></span>

Revision as of 14:39, 1 July 2012

Information

  • How to add clips from the file system
  • Clips properties (right-click): What do they mean, what effects do changes have there?
  • Additional clip types: Colour clips, Title clips, Slideshow clips, Stop Motion. How to add them?
  • What does transcoding clips do, when is it used? (Damaged .ogv files e.g.)
  • Project Tree widget: How to structure clips (folders)



Clips (Video and Audio)

The Add Clip Button brings up the Add Clip Dialog where you can choose video or audio clips to add to the project tree.


You can add other types of clips by choosing a clip type from the menu brought up from the Add Clip Drop down button.

Colour clips

Title clips

Slideshow clips

Stop Motion

Proxy clips

Activating proxy clips

Proxy clips are one of the most useful inventions for editing if you are not working on a ultra high-end machine. The trick is that the original clips are replaced by clips with lower resolution clips, with a less complex codec. Video decoding, e.g. of H.264 clips, requires a lot of computing power, but computing power is required for rendering effects in real-time. If insufficient is available, replay will stutter. Proxy clips will require hardly any computing power at all, which allows fluent replay.

Proxy clips can be enabled / disabled for the current project in the Project Settings (Project -> Project Settings).

To enable proxy clips by default for new projects, go to Settings -> Configure Kdenlive -> Project Defaults -> Enable Proxy Clips. See also Project Settings page


As soon as proxy clips are enabled, they can be generated for specific project clips in the Project Tree widget via the context menu Proxy Clip. Clicking it again disables the proxy for this clip.

When rendering to the output file, you can choose whether to use the proxy clips as well. It is by default disabled, but for a quick rendering preview it is useful.