v0.8 from the AV Linux Live-DVD (Debian)

I'm extremely new to kdenlive, and am finding some fundamental tasks extremely difficult to do, especially in the almost-complete absence of documentation. Nothing new there for Linux apps, of course (a wiki, or PHP-style section for all menu-items, etc would be helpful; I think the community would get stuck in). This one is:

"How do you add an extra video or audio track to the existing ones chosen at project start?"

In other words, I wish to increase the number of video tracks on the Timeline from 2 to 3. I gathered after some search that there is supposed to be a menu item to do this, but be blowed if I can find it. Under "Timeline | Insert" is just one item (nothing to do with tracks).

Bug Report:
These seem to be very popular, so let's add my own.

Text Clip editor:
Project is DV PAL Widescreen. The edit window is accurate for that, but if a tick is placed into `Show Background', the underlying widescreen clip displays at 4:3 (at a guess). Height is accurate, but width has white panels either side, and the picture is squeezed horizontally.

Hey AlexK,

I think you right click on an existing track and then it shows a menu that allows you to add another video track before or after the track you clicked on.

This worked for me with Kdenlive .8 in Ubuntu (10.10).

hope that helps!

@earl_fx:
Thank you so much for a reply.

I knew that I *had* tried both, but tried again because of your reply. rt/click on the track itself did not work (wrong options), but rt/click on the track header (far LHS) *did* work this time. Hurrah! I think it was because you need to click in the small space below the name (`Video 1', etc.) and above the track options.

Thanks again.

Let's hope that they get some user-supported documentation pages in place asap. One of the big differences between a hobbyist & professional piece of work lies in the quality of support provided. Obviously the quality of the coding is key, but so is the quality of the docs for any program that is other than trivial to use, else the learning curve is much too steep.

@AlexK

your welcome. You're right; I wasn't specific enough about the suggestion. Clicking on the left side header was the trick.

This might be something suggest for what documentation currently exists, or new documentation.

Documentation is in the progress of being moved, so I think it should be improving and easier to find/edit soon

http://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive

This is the manual:
http://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual

It is, as you see, on the KDE.org site. No auto-import of accounts from here, so yet another registration involved to edit.