I'm going through a number of clips to weed out the bad ones and leave only the best behind for further editing. Often a long clip contains a few good parts which I'd like to see as separate clips in the Project tree. I don't like going through the add clip dialog multiple times. In kino I did this with ctrl-j, split.

Is there a similar feature in kdenlive clip editor?

Basically I'd go through the clip in clip editor. I find a good sub clip and adjust the IN point, but instead of an OUT point I would do split. Split would add an OUT point and copy the clip on the clip list, move to the copy and hold the position in the clip editor. But IN and OUT points would be cleared in the copy. Then I could go on previewing and adding another IN and OUT points. Like in kino, the clip thumbnail would be updated to the IN point by default, unless some other frame is selected.

Another implementation could be multiple sub-clips via multiple IN and OUT points within a clip, but IMO that would clutter the meaning of the clip list.

-Mikko

If I remember correctly, you can create a new clip from the selected zone in clip monitor: right click in clip monitor and select "Save Zone..." or something like that and you will be asked for a file name. Of course, the feature could be improved to work as you described...

Ok, I've got another problem to crack.

I have multiple camera sources and I created a kdenlive project for them each. Then I went through all the clips in each project and added good IN and OUT points.

The time line in each project is empty, so they act like plain clip databases. Though it would be nice if I could at some point copy a timeline from one project to some point in a nother project.

Now I'd like to merge all of the projects in to one master project where I'd start creating the timeline with multiple camera sources/angles.

But Add clip in the master project doesn't know how to handle .kdenlive projects, ick.

Perhaps I should have created just one project and folders for each camera source but that's too late now. Experience with kino crashes though me to have multiple projects, and save all versions too.

Merging the .kdenlive XML files could be the only way out, but I think at least the id fields of the kdenlive_producer
entities will clash.

Any hints or tips on merging multiple projects?

-Mikko

I tried a manual merge with copies of the project files. In all but the master, I needed to make id's unique:

sed -i "s/id=\"/id=\"asdfasdf/g" test1.kdenlive

Then I copied all
The result seems to work as expected in kdenlive.

For final merge I think I will use the folder structure, where the kdenlive_producer's have a groupname matching an existing folder name.

Playing with the project files I noticed quite a few crashes and other oddities, so I'll be carefull to take backups. Defavu from the 2005 kino user experiences :)

-Mikko

Ok, this forum doesnt like XML snippets, sigh. Should have said:

...
Then copied all kdenlive_producer lines from test1 to test2 project in a text editor and saved the results.
...

-Mikko

You should be able to add a kdenlive project as a clip. The file dialog's filter may not show it, but you can clear the filter and press Enter to see to all files and then add it.