Hello. I've never used any program for video editing before, and while kdenlive looked relatively simple I'm having problems getting it to do what I want it to:

I've got DVD's with a TV series (the re-imaged Battlestar Galactica) and used Acid Rip to copy the content as is (without re-encoding) to hard disc. What I want now is cut the story of one particular character out (the exact "Boomer" character). All I wanna is take several snipplets from the movie and put them into one chain. I may wish to add soft transition, animated text layers with comments, and arrows, highlights, standing pictures later, but for now I just want the cut scenes in a row.

However, I already got problems with the very first. I startet a DV PAL project, since we're talking of  PAL DVD material here. I added pilot mini series as one big 2:55 hours:minutes clip. Then I looked up the first scene I wanted with the Clip-Monitor, used the set starting point and set end point buttons at the part of the scene I wanted and dragged the video on the first track of the time line. But now I am a bit stuck...

Isn't the timeline monitor to play whatever you have set up in the "tracks" list? At first it would just play the whole movie, even though only a small fraction, limited by correct starting and ending pictures seemed to be in the track. After restarting the program it doesn't play anything at all anymore, even though the contents of the track look correct... and the habit of kdenlive to crash every now and then ain't helping either... Is there any way to just watch what has been set up already? Or was that the wrong way to take a part of a clip out into the target ... whatever.

kdenlive is version 0.6.0-svn according to its own help window and version 0.5.svn20071228-0.0ubuntu3 according to the Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) package manager.

Two answers:

• Firstly, we wron't help you edit the work of someone else. You don't seem to be the copyright holder. Sorry, I hope you understand.


• Secondly, you should start reading our downloading page. Kdenlive 0.5 is deprecated. Start installing Kdenlive 0.7 as explained.

Tommorrow I will erase this post.

Cutting another one's material is not illegal. Copyright is irrelevant here. Don't be oversensitive because of a topic that is being publically debated - cutting and reassmbling material that you own is perfectly alright. And even if you're not the copyright holder you're still the owner of whatever you buy. It's forbidden to give it to others or let them access it in any way. Otherwise it would be a crime to cut an article from a newspaper and paste it to an album, too!

As for the installation notes: I installed kdenlive exactly as it is described in the section describing the installation under Ubuntu Linux... it simply is the one stable included in Ubuntu Linux.

Now, if you say you own the DVD, then I agree with you.

Kdenlive installation instructions for Ubuntu are there:

http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/ubuntu-packages

This page explains how to install Kdenlive 0.7.1 on Ubuntu 8.10