Hi,

I'm a SAE Film student at Byron, I've been interested in kdenlive for a while now, I'd like to help out as best I can by providing feed back on kdenlive what I would like/need out of a NLE package.

I'm actually pleasently surprised I see that it supports HDV over firewire capture now, that's great :)

I'd like to see Shadow & Highlights filter, Unsharp Mask (mainly I used this for local contrast enhancement - ie: large radius like 250 px, small amount like 20%), Basic masking tools, few other things, forgive me if these are already being planned :)

I might try to implement the shadow & highlights, and unsharp mask filters myself whenever it is my distro finishes downloading..

Also seeing as you support firewire capture for DV and HDV, it'd be nice to have a 'print to tape' function that sends DV or HDV back to tape :)

Hey Athril,

Welcome! I actually used to live about 45min north of Byron myself and am an AFTRS grad. Anyway thanks for the suggestions. The best place to post them to get the attention they deserve is on the bug tracker (status "Wishlist") at http://kdenlive.org/mantis . Certainly any help you could provide with filters would be great, and print to tape is a nice idea, too.

Cheers

Cinephilliac

PS Did I mention that SAE rocks for sponsoring Ardour? :D My sister went there too...

Thanks :D

Finally got updated enough to even run kdenlive now xD

Almost able to build it.. seems a few KDE3 things are missing from being able to compile properly :)

KDE3 things? Personally I'd recommend running the KDE4 version (even if your desktop is KDE3) as that's where the development action has been for the last year. Just tick the KDE4 checkbox on the first (second?) window of the builder wizard.

KDE4 apps will still run just fine in KDE3. Its a similar deal to running Gnome apps. They'll just need to run the KDE4 libraries in the background and look like a KDE4 app. Not necessarily a bad thing. :D

edit6: build mlt++, unable to build mlt -

/usr/local/lib/libavformat.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

make[2]: *** [../libmltavformat.so] Error 1

edit5: built my own x264... built ffmpeg/trunk

edi4: also requires a much new version of the x264 libraries (dev library specifically..) than is in the repository for synaptic.

edit3: appears that --enable-libogg --enable-pp (now postproc i assume) and --enable-swscaler arent part of the configure options for the latest svn that i grabbed... or ive stuffed something up (but cant think of what)

edit2: On manual building, I got stuck on the make stage.

Generating moveclipcommand.moc

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/moveclipcommand.h:0: Warning: No relevant classes found. No output generated.

[ 1%] Generating kdenlivesettings.h, kdenlivesettings.cpp

[ 2%] Generating kdenlivesettings.moc

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/kdenlivesettings.h:0: Warning: No relevant classes found. No output generated.

Scanning dependencies of target kdenlive

[ 31%] Building CXX object src/cmake_bindir/CMakeFiles/kdenlive.dir/kdenlive_automoc.o

In file included from /home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/moc_initeffects.cpp:10,

from /home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/kdenlive_automoc.cpp:4:

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/../initeffects.h:50: error: ISO C++ forbids declaration of ‘Repository’ with no type

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/../initeffects.h:50: error: invalid use of ‘::’

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/../initeffects.h:50: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘*’ token

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/../initeffects.h:51: error: ‘Mlt::Repository’ has not been declared

/home/dan/src/kdenlive/src/cmake_bindir/../initeffects.h:52: error: ‘Mlt::Repository’ has not been declared

make[2]: *** [src/cmake_bindir/CMakeFiles/kdenlive.dir/kdenlive_automoc.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** [src/cmake_bindir/CMakeFiles/kdenlive.dir/all] Error 2

make: *** [all] Error 2

edit: kdesudo seems to be doing it... we'll see what happens after it finishes getting svn sources.

after getting the script to run with kdesudo it fails when trying to configure ffmpeg 'FAILURE Some kind of error occured: unable to configure ffmpeg', Builder Wizard just doesnt like me.

I was trying to build it myself as I was running GNOME.

After 12 hours of updates (256K ADSL here...) I've got KDE4 desktop up and going, so i'll try the build script now xD

Even the builder wizard is not without problems:

Cant just run it, as it doesn't have write access to my folder, so I have to sudo invoke kommander from terminal...

But that causes problems:

dan@Dan:~/Desktop$ sudo kmdr-executor 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr

Error: "/tmp/kde-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

This is the initial run

ScriptObjectDisplayVersionInfo called

And

dan@Dan:~/Desktop$ sudo kmdr-editor 85826-kdenlive_builder_wizard.kmdr

Error: "/tmp/kde-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

QDesignerWizard::property( "useInternalParser" ) failed: property invalid or does not exist

QDesignerWizard::property( "useInternalParser" ) failed: property invalid or does not exist

Error: "/var/tmp/kdecache-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

Error: "/tmp/ksocket-dan" is owned by uid 1000 instead of uid 0.

QDesignerWizard::property( "useShebang" ) failed: property invalid or does not exist

QDesignerWizard::property( "useInternalParser" ) failed: property invalid or does not exist

QDesignerWizard::property( "useInternalParser" ) failed: property invalid or does not exist

If you post on the builder wizard thread, Mads (the writer of the wizard) is very helpful and knows his stuff.

Will do.

I managed to get kdenlive compiled, but linker error.

So I'll check it out.

Hi

Did you solve your build problems?

For implementing effects/stuff, you want to do it for mlt, I reckon. See also this issue

http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=303