I just purchased a Canon T1i camera. Great machine with stills and video. I am unable to load the .MOV files from
my computer into Kdenlive. Is there a fix for this? I have tried ffmpeg and am very confused. HELP!

To check if a camera is compatible, here are the steps:

• Try playing the clip with FFMpeg, in a termial, run:
  ffplay myclip.mov


• Try playing the clip with MLT, in a termial, run:
  melt myclip.mov

Let us know the result. If your clip does not play with ffplay, maybe that is because your FFMpeg version is too old, you can open a bugreport on our bugtracker, and attach a short sample video clip so that we can test it with the latest versions of FFMpeg and MLT...

regards
jb

Thanks,the clip did play with ffplay. Here is the terminal output:
lackerma@linux-vl96:~/Pictures/livestuff> ffplay MVI_0104.MOV
FFplay version UNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2003-2010 Fabrice Bellard, et al.
built on Jan 27 2010 22:16:22 with gcc 4.4.1 [gcc-4_4-branch revision 150839]
configuration: --shlibdir=/usr/lib64 --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --libdir=/usr/lib64 --enable-shared --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libtheora --enable-libspeex --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-nonfree --enable-libxvid --enable-postproc --enable-gpl --enable-x11grab --enable-libschroedinger --enable-libdirac --enable-libgsm --enable-version3 --enable-libopencore-amrnb --enable-libopencore-amrwb --enable-libx264 --enable-libdc1394 --enable-pthreads
libavutil 50. 7. 0 / 50. 7. 0
libavcodec 52.45. 0 / 52.45. 0
libavformat 52.46. 0 / 52.46. 0
libavdevice 52. 2. 0 / 52. 2. 0
libswscale 0. 7. 2 / 0. 7. 2
libpostproc 51. 2. 0 / 51. 2. 0
Input #0, mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2, from 'MVI_0104.MOV':0B
Metadata:
major_brand : qt
minor_version : 537331968
compatible_brands: qt CAEP
Duration: 00:00:31.93, start: 0.000000, bitrate: 26734 kb/s
Stream #0.0(eng): Video: h264, yuv420p, 1280x720, 26026 kb/s, 30 fps, 30 tbr, 3k tbn, 6k tbc
Stream #0.1(eng): Audio: pcm_s16le, 44100 Hz, 1 channels, s16, 705 kb/s
31.93 A-V: -6.685 aq= 0KB vq= 0KB sq= 0B

What do I do next so I load it into kdenlive?

Well, if it plays with ffplay, it should work with Kdenlive. Try playing it with MLT's command line player:

melt yourclip.mov

If it works, what exactly is the problem when adding it to Kdenlive?

If it does not work, that may be an MLT installation problem... How did you install and which version?

regards

Thanks for the help.

Kdenlive works well with the Canon T1i output.
I did not realize that one needed to import clips.
That was the solution.
This is the first time I have used video editing.

Thanks again for the help.