Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu 10.10 - Kdenlive 0.8.1 - MLT 0.7.3 builded with Dan Dennedy's build scripts.. Kdenlive it's getting better and better!

I'm working with AVCHD files 1920x1080 interlaced:

When I render to MPEG2 codec (12000k kdenlive profile) to 1920x1080, everything it's fine.
When I render to MPEG4 codec (12000k kdenlive profile) to 1920x1080, everything it's fine.
When I render to H264 codec (12000k kdenlive profile) to 1920x1080, the video and audio sttuters on any media player but Windows Media Player.

Then I render to a slower bitrate, 6000k kdenlive profile and the audio and video stutters.

But when I render the AVCHD video on Handbrake software with x264 and 6000k average bitrate, it plays ok on any media player with a good image quality.

Can someone tell me how can I render files in x264 6000k average bitrate with kdenlive that plays ok on any media player?

And one last question:

Why can I render to XVID on Kdenlive if Xvid it's open source?


I hope you guys you can understand my questions.

Best regards

Someone can help me?

Handbrake does seem to have a very good set of default options. If you run Handbrake, click on the "high profile" preset, then click on the H.264 tab, you will see the x264 options that Handbrake is using. Most of them are in the GUI and a few are in the "Current x264 Advanced Option String" box at the bottom. If you change any of the GUI options, you will see the actual name of that option appear in the Advanced box. It will take a few minutes of time, but it should be possible to go through the options and create a kdenlive render profile using these x264 options and if all is well get results similar to Handbrake. I haven't actually tried it, so I'd be curious if it works for you. I'm lazy and just do my final rendering through Handbrake.

drosky,

Thanks for your answer.. I'm going to try your tip today and come back to you with the preset here if it works.

But besides, how do you render your work with Handbrake?

You do all the editing in Kdenlive, render it with a lossless setting and then render it again in Handbrake for a more efficient relationship between size/quality?