I've been using Kdenlive for years and love it! I recently had to reinstall Ubuntu along with Kdenlive. I did a little test edit of a project and when I rendered it the quality was very poor. It almost looks like a 480 YouTube video. The original files are mp4 1080p at 24fps. I noticed that the rendering options are now I bit different. I selected MP4 H.264/AAc (CBR) and put the video bitrate to 8000 (which seems lower than it used to be). What settings do I have wrong? Thanks!

edit: I should also say that I installed the new Ubuntu 16.

It depends on the picture, from the recording/production. If the picture is smooth it takes less bps, is it grainy it needs more bps.

Example with CRF:
THG: Catching Fire (2013): crf 19, Bit rate:    5.1 Mbps
American Hustle (2013):      crf 19, Bit rate: 14.6 Mbps

Either CRF or you have to play with the bit rate, until you like it.

Stetsbequem wrote:It depends on the picture, from the recording/production. If the picture is smooth it takes less bps, is it grainy it needs more bps.

Example with CRF:
THG: Catching Fire (2013): crf 19, Bit rate:    5.1 Mbps
American Hustle (2013):      crf 19, Bit rate: 14.6 Mbps

Either CRF or you have to play with the bit rate, until you like it.

I decided to go ahead and over write the newest Ubuntu with Ubuntu Studio to see if maybe there were pre-paked things in it and I'm still having the same issues. I've edited over a dozen videos in the past with no problems until this upgrade.

I still haven't found a resolution to this.

Hello,
CBR settings are not exposed anymore for more than a year, because good settings are so dependent on frame rate, resolution...
Please use a stock VBR setting, testing with different quality slider positions.

vpinon wrote:Hello,
CBR settings are not exposed anymore for more than a year, because good settings are so dependent on frame rate, resolution...
Please use a stock VBR setting, testing with different quality slider positions.

How do I do all that you just listed?

What do you see in render widget?
Don't you have a list of formats with, eg, "MP4 - the dominating format (H264/AAC)"
And below that a "Quality" slider...
I don't understand what is not clear (are you in Kdenlive>15.08)?

Well after trying every MP4 output and uninstalling and reinstalling multiple times I think I found the problem. It was something with the project file itself. I started a new project and now its rending out just fine. I have to go back and re edit but if that's what it takes I'm fine with it. Thank you everyone for taking the time to reply.

I had the same problems when using proxy files. So when I finished editing, I delete the proxy files in the project settings an the render quality becomes much better.

greetz, Dets ...