Ok first and foremost when it comes to video editing I am totally newbie BUT please don't run a mile. Over the last 2 weeks I have spent nearly a 100 hours editing testing, reading, confusing myself and so on... If I don't understand your responce I will research, if I still can't understand I will tell you.

All that said. I am using Kdenlive 0.7.5 (what an amazing program!!!) on an Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 (I have not booted into Windows in 2 weeks, what a great operating system)

We are using a Sony Ex1R to capture video to solid state memory and then downloading to PC. To my utter amazement, Kdenlive read the MP4 file in without a problem (camera ships with converting softwear for Mac & or Windows)

After my edits, I can render to many formats, usually Raw DV and everything is great (albeit the res drops in Raw DV) but when I render to HD I get the great resolution (1080 & 25 frames per second) but the video is 1 hour and 5 minute video has now become an m2t file which states it is 28 hours and 53 minutes long...until I open it...then it drops down to 23 minutes and 53 seconds...and here lies my dilema the clip should still be 1 hour and 5 minutes !?!?!?!

I do not get it! If anyone can explain why or how to fix (or both), I would be truly greatful!

Thank you and regards,

Jc

Starting to lose hope here...

I mean, even the experts here don't know why this is happening?

Is anyone else experiencing this? or is it just me?

Think I will go back to banging my head on the brick wall...someone pass the asprin please...

Maybe you can update your version of kdenlive first. Current version is 0.7.7.1 and try with this version. Also update mlt to the latest version. If the problem still exist, let us know. The other option is to render your video with a lossless codec and convert it then with ffmpeg or mencoder. That's the way I render my videos. Lossless rendering goes realy fast and you can check the resulting video before you start a rendering for about 10 hours.

The experts can not reproduce your problem. Maybe because we do not have a Sony Ex1R. Send me one, and I can try to figure it out. ;-)

It sounds like the 28 hour duration reported is the time to render; not the duration of the output. Maybe the rendering did not complete, or it plays too fast - you did not indicate.