Just started with Kdenlive on a Windows 10 machine. Using 17.08.01
I set up the program according the description. Editing is going well. Amazing how flexible all work.
But with rendeing I get the message: Can't find the melt program.
I googled but could not find a solution for Windows
I downloaded version 16 but the same message when I want to save my work
Hopefully someone can help me.
Thanks

Hello,
In Settings / Configure Kdenlive / Environment / MLT environment you can specify Melt path.
melt.exe should be next to kdenlive.exe in the directory where you extracted the archive...
unless it has been wrongly quarantined/suppressed by an antivirus?
Good luck!

Is it related to this?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385046

vpinon wrote:Hello,
In Settings / Configure Kdenlive / Environment / MLT environment you can specify Melt path.
melt.exe should be next to kdenlive.exe in the directory where you extracted the archive...
unless it has been wrongly quarantined/suppressed by an antivirus?
Good luck!

Thanks so much for this.
As newbie I have to learn a lot.
The fields in this settings (environment) seemed emty. But the background color is the same as foreground color.
Then indeed the path was not correct.

There is no melt.exe in Kdenlive 17.08.1, but you can set the path to kdenlive_render.exe (it should be next to kdenlive.exe in the same directory).
It fixes problem with melt.exe path. However, for me render still fails (it instantly ends with rendering time 0s), but maybe setting this path can help you.

update: my falt. seems like antivirus delete melt.exe.