Can someone please explain how to use title templates? I can create something, but then I can figure out how to get it included in the popup list of title templates.

I love Kdenlive. I've tried most of the other linux non-linear video software, and they pale in comparison. Kdenlive does everything I want.

However, I am on a distressingly long learning curve. We need someone who is willing to take some time off from the exciting work of improving the software and give the world some reasonably complete, accessible documentation. I have spent hours pouring through videos and partial docs and experimenting trial and error.

I have found the answer. See http://www.kdenlive.org/discover/0.7.5#template.

In fact, these version information pages are an invaluable source of documentation.

Is there any way to center align template text?

Waynevid

I think at the moment you have to re-center it again when you're done editing the text (center buttons are on the right: «Align horizontally»).

How does one re-center template text? There are no "align horizontally" buttons anywhere in the template text clip properties window. The template text properties window is different from the Title Clip properties window. It has no align buttons.

Waynevid

Yes, please, someone help with this. I have 125 captions to add to a one hour video. I have set up a template to place them at the bottom of the screen below the image area. Before I started using a template, I created each title separately and centered it with the centering arrows. However, now that I have created titles from my template, I can no longer find a way to edit them as before.

I have looked at the .kdenlive file. It has an entry for the template resource (which I left in the project tree as a regular title clip) that includes the starting position of the text (the position of %s). However, the entries for the title clips generated from the template have no positions of their own. How could they? They are supposed to take all of their text positions from the template resource. Thus, each copy made from the template places the description text starting at the position indicated in the template resource, the starting position of %s.

In order to edit the position of a copy made from a template, we would need a way of converting that copy to a regular, independent title clip.

While there seems to be no direct way of center aligning template text, there is a work around. When creating your template in the Title Clip window, make sure the %s is located at the extreme left side of the visible screen (checkerboard screen). Save your file, then open it as a template text. Enter your text in the Description column of the project tree. To center the text manually, add/remove spaces in front of your text until it's centered in the clip monitor. You can also add spaces to text in the clip properties window. It's a trial and error thing. An automatic center align would be ideal but short of that, this work around works.

waynevid