Archive:Kdenlive/Manual/Projects and Files/Clips
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, Audio and Images)
The Button 
brings up the where you can choose video, audio or still image clips to add to the project tree.
Button labeled 1 toggles File Preview on and off. Slider labeled 2 adjusts the size of the preview icons. Checkbox labeled 3 enables the import of a series of images that can be used to make a stop motion animation. Checkbox labeled 4 - is for ???
You can add other types of clips by choosing a clip type from the menu brought up from the Drop down button.
Colour clips
Title clips
See Titles
Slideshow clips
Stop Motion
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 ().
To enable proxy clips by default for new projects, go to . 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 . 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.
Clip Properties
You can display and edit clip properties by selecting a clip in the project tree and choosing from the Project Menu or from the Right Click Menu
Video Properties
Advanced Properties
Markers
You can use the Markers tab to add markers for certain points in the source file that are important.
Once markers are put in your clip you can access them in the clip monitor under right click > Go To Marker. (See picture). Also note how the markers appear as red vertical lines in the clip monitor (see yellow highligted regions in the picture)
