Hello all,

I am new to this forum and I hope to find some answers for my burning question :]
Let me start out with saying that I love Kdenlive and the way it is developing ... Way to go! I have used this program using footage from my GoPro (.mp4) and Nikon D300s (.avi) and it worked very well.

As for my question, I hope I do give enough info, so somebody can quickly help me out here.

Right now, I am working at Hope Medical Center in Guinea, West-Africa, editing a 5 - 10 minutes
video called "Stories of Hope".

Having shot all my footage with my Sony PMW-EX1 (1080/25 p, .mp4 output), I was starting editing with Kdenlive version 0.7.7.1. The imported clip works fine as long as I don't drag it in my time line. Video and audio go out of sync.

Importing my raw footage directly into for example Pitivi does work fine.

Just upgraded my Kdenlive to the newest Ubuntu (10:04 LTS) version: 0.8.2.1 hoping that will solve my issue?!

Anyway, any thoughts on this?

Should I convert my .mp4 files to another format to be imported well? I hate to have quality loss though. Getting my project done with Pitivi would solve my problem, but not in the best way. There are so many more good options working with Kdenlive.

Hoping to find some answers soon, because I would like to finish this project before going back to our home in Mali, West-Africa. We are only at Hope Medical Center for a short time.

Thanks for any input, do not hesitate to ask further questions!

Ewien

You may find the upgrade to 8.2.x solves the problem. Alternatively if it doesn't then you could try importing and seperating audio automatically to see if that helps or even transcode by remuxing to an mkv (matroska) this is not reencoding so no quality loss and takes minutes rather than hours.

Thanks for your answer yellow, the upgrade DID work, great! I am very happy, now back to editing.
Thanks for the tip, that might come in handy later on...Cheers!