My objective is to take video material from my camcorder and then post it on youtube. I have two problems relating to Kdenlive:
1. Although Kino will download the information Kdenlive will not. Both are recent installations. The format is DV and the connection is Firewire.


2. Kenlive will not read either of the formats that Kino offers, smil or mpeg-eli.

Hopefully when I get the material into KdenLive it can save it in a format acceptable by Youtube. But that is the next hurdle.

John Culleton
john@wexfordpress.com

Finally got Kdenlive to absorb a DV file which was imported via Kino. then I tried to write that file as mp4.
KdenLive just stalled with no error messages.

Tried to save as flash. It stalled again.

KdenLive still won't download a DV file from my camcorder.

John Culleton

I use dvgrab to capture both DV & HDV. But then from memory as an old Kino user myself, Kino uses dvgrab anyway but possibly into a .dv file rather than .avi?

You can use dvgrab on the command line, quick and efficient. dvgrab --help will give you a list of the options. For DV I use:

dvgrab -a -f avi -opendml -timestamp Capture_Tape_1_

This autosplits at scene changes, DV codec in a type2 avi container, opendml so avi's are valid over 1GB, timestamp in filename, Capture_Tape_1_ is the filename prefix for whatever you want to call your files.

These import without any problems into kdenlive. Personally I prefer to use dvgrab on the CLI as it's low on resources, the files go straight onto a 4TB RAID as a live backup. For what it's worth I also make a copy to a external OEM drive for archive and a copy to an external SATA drive for working with kdenlive.