The points below are copied from suggestions I made out of context in the thread 'output very large for avi to avi edit'. 



I agree with griphiam that both containers and contents should be visible in the GUI. Indeed Kdenlive could use two lists for output selection: one for the containers showing AVI, MPEG, OGG and so on and the other showing the formats/codecs available for each container. This would be very instructive for beginners like myself.



I think the most natural output format when editing clips is the implicit 'what goes in comes out', i.e. the input and output formats as well as the input and output containers should be the same. That is the default behaviour of  most computer editors, e.g. Word, Notepad, Paint and so on.



Finally, change the wording 'Render' to 'Output' for the round button. 'Render' may not be understood.

 

I think the most natural output format when editing clips is the implicit 'what goes in comes out', i.e. the input and output formats as well as the input and output containers should be the same. That is the default behaviour of  most computer editors, e.g. Word, Notepad, Paint and so on.

kdenlive can mix a lot of different (video/image/audio) formats, so this is probably not to easy to accomplish

madsdyd wrote:Hi resander

I think you raise a number of valid points and use case scenarios.

The number 1 point is surely a use case we should accomodate. See also this issue:
http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=279

Your number 2 point is not related to this topic. It would be great if you would create a new topic/idea/mantis issue for this, which I would consider a different "editing" mode (autoremove space on clip deletion?) Perhaps it is also a "multi drag-drop onto timeline" issue?

Also, please note, that Kdenlive SVN now have a nearly working spacer tool, which makes it a lot easier to remove space in controlled way. Perhaps we need a "trim space" tool too, that removes all space between clips?

Most of these are related to a use case that could be called something like "Working with many clips in a project", not?

The reason I ask you to create these topics/mantis issues is that you will then be involved in further discussion.

Oh, and about the render issue; I have just added a logging facility (svn rev. 2810) to kdenlive_render, that should allow us to getting closer to figure out why render fails for some people. It can be very hard to figure it out, we would be very glad if you could help us. (We need someone that has the error to figure out why it goes wrong).

I hang out a lot on IRC (#kdenlive irc.freenode.org) and would be very happy to try and pinpoint this issue.

Thanks

Mads