This is going to sound like a really stupid question to many of you, but I've gone through the entire installation of Kdenlive (successfully, as near as I can tell) on my Mac via MacPorts. But I can't seem to find anywhere any instruction on how to actually launch Kdenlive. Everything I've been able to find assumes the program is running, and I can't figure out how to make it run. Help!

Okay, finally found the executable file, but now it won't launch. I get the "application quit unexpectedly" error in Mac OS X. Running 10.5. Any thoughts?

Make sure you follow the instructions during installation about running dbus from launchd. Also, follow the directions displayed during install about changing the file ownership or permissions to your local KDE preferences. Then, you need to run kded4 followed by kdenlive. If you use Spotlight, that is an easy way. If not, try 'open -a kded4' followed by 'open -a kdenlive'

Kdenlive mainly uses MLT, which uses FFmpeg libraries. The warning you received is because Kdenlive may also use the ffmpeg command line utility for 2 features: the Transcode function in the Project Tree and Capture. Capture is not supported on OS X, but Transcode. MacPorts puts binary utilities in /opt/local/bin, which is not in your default PATH. I do not recall at the moment how to address that and my mac not available at the moment, but you might get along just fine without Transcode unless you want to edit AVCHD in which case you will want to transcode it to DNxHD. But you might look for a hint on macports.org.

hello,

somewhat similar to veenie's issue:

i can't open Kdenlive 0.7.8 on my intel macbook pro with mac os 10.6, installed via macports according to the Kdenlive guide.

when trying to start the application via terminal or spotlight, the symbol shows in the dock, but the program won't run. ("application not responding").
executing kded4 beforehand didn't help...

could you help?

many thanks in advance!

...if it's of any use, i added an excerpt of the report of the stalled opening process:

Date/Time: 2010-12-16 17:23:46 +0100
OS Version: 10.6.5 (Build 10H574)
Architecture: x86_64
Report Version: 6

Command: kdenlive
Path: /opt/local/var/macports/software/kdenlive/0.7.8_0/opt/local/bin/kdenlive.app/Contents/MacOS/kdenlive
Version: ()
Parent: launchd [107]

PID: 421
Event: hang
Duration: 4.19s (sampling started after 2 seconds)
Steps: 22 (100ms sampling interval)

Pageins: 0
Pageouts: 0


Process: kdenlive [421]
Path: /opt/local/var/macports/software/kdenlive/0.7.8_0/opt/local/bin/kdenlive.app/Contents/MacOS/kdenlive
UID: 501


Process: AirPort Base Station Agent [134]
Path: /System/Library/CoreServices/AirPort Base Station Agent.app/Contents/MacOS/AirPort Base Station Agent
UID: 501



...



Thread a2df000
Kernel stack:
22 thread_call_initialize + 687 [0x22fc20]

Model: MacBookPro5,1, BootROM MBP51.007E.B05, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.33f8
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.131.36.1)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.8f7, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: AirPort, AirPort, en1
Serial ATA Device: ST93205620AS, 298.09 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8507, 0x24400000
USB Device: ProtectExecuter, 0x0819, 0x0101, 0x06200000
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8213, 0x06110000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0x04600000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000

...and after the force quit by me the console puts out the following


12/16/10 6:58:37 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[111] ([0x0-0x19019].kdenlive[172]) Exited: Terminated
12/16/10 7:01:23 PM com.apple.launchd.peruser.501[111] ([0x0-0x1d01d].kdenlive[191]) Exited: Terminated