It has been quite a while since I've last posted, inexcusable I know. I did successfully install kdenlive on Snow Leopard and have used it, but I've had problems with burning DVD's. That is something I am still working on. However, I just noticed yesterday that kdenlive has been updated to version 0.8, and I spent yesterday updating my Macports. Is the new version available for install yet? I did a sudo port install kdenlive, but nothing has changed. I am hoping the 0.8 may fix my issues. Any suggestions?

2. Do they flicker the whole time until you close kdenlive?
1. Is it only then that it runs slowly?
Since in this case I had the problem as well before the 0.8 release, afterwards it was fixed.

Regarding the MacPorts release, Dan is maintaining it, maybe he decided to wait for the next bugfix release of kdenlive (which should be released soon).

Simon

I'm interested in using Kdenlive, but I'm stuck at the installation. I'm using mac os 10.5.8 and my Xcode version is 3.1.4.
I'm following the instructions at http://www.kdenlive.org/user-manual/downloading-and-installing-kdenlive/pre-compiled-packages/mac-os-x-packages-macports

When I run:
% sudo port install kdenlive
it gets all the way to
---> Building libssh
Error: Target org.macports.build returned: shell command failed (see log for details)
Error: Failed to install libssh

I think this error has been entered already at MacPorts:
https://trac.macports.org/ticket/29888

Since this bug report ticket is only 3 days old, maybe someone's working on it?

Could I try something else to make the installation work?

Hello
I am a new user on Mac and I try to install kdenlive on it,

and

it's not working

I get that

Last login: Sun Jun 26 08:45:12 on ttys001
etienne-gruazs-MacBook-Pro:~ etiennegruaz$ sudo port -d selfupdate
---> Updating the ports tree
DEBUG: Synchronizing ports tree(s)
Synchronizing local ports tree from rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/
DEBUG: /usr/bin/rsync -rtzv --delete-after '--exclude=/PortIndex*' rsync://rsync.macports.org/release/ports/ /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports
receiving file list ... done
./

sent 59 bytes received 530680 bytes 117942.00 bytes/sec
total size is 29030879 speedup is 54.70
Creating port index in /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/ports

Total number of ports parsed: 0
Ports successfully parsed: 0
Ports failed: 0
Up-to-date ports skipped: 8156

DEBUG: MacPorts sources location: /opt/local/var/macports/sources/rsync.macports.org/release/base
---> Updating MacPorts base sources using rsync
receiving file list ... done

sent 36 bytes received 6858 bytes 2757.60 bytes/sec
total size is 2889184 speedup is 419.09
MacPorts base version 1.9.2 installed,
DEBUG: Rebuilding and reinstalling MacPorts if needed
MacPorts base version 1.9.2 downloaded.
---> MacPorts base is already the latest version
DEBUG: Setting MacPorts sources ownership to root

The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run
port upgrade outdated
etienne-gruazs-MacBook-Pro:~ etiennegruaz$ sudo port -u upgrade outdated
Error: No ports matched the given expression
etienne-gruazs-MacBook-Pro:~ etiennegruaz$ sudo port install kdenlive
Password:
---> Computing dependencies for kdenlive
---> Dependencies to be installed: dvdauthor ImageMagick ghostscript xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-libxcb python27 db46 gdbm python_select xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice p7zip urw-fonts libdvdread libdvdcss kdebase4-runtime bison exiv2 hicolor-icon-theme kdelibs4 aspell texinfo xz aspell-dict-en attica phonon avahi dbus-python27 dbus-glib gtk-doc docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils p5-xml-parser iso-codes libxslt py27-libxml2 rarian getopt py27-gobject libffi libdaemon libglade2 gtk2 atk gdk-pixbuf2 jasper pango Xft2 xrender xorg-renderproto cairo libpixman xorg-xcb-util shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto py27-gtk py27-cairo py27-numpy atlas gcc44 gcc_select gmp mpfr gzip fftw-3 py27-nose py27-distribute py27-py cyrus-sasl2 dbusmenu-qt git-core curl curl-ca-bundle p5-error rsync popt qjson enchant hunspell flex giflib gmake grantlee kerberos5 gnupg libusb-compat libusb libart_lgpl liblzma openexr ilmbase gsed pcre qca shared-desktop-ontologies soprano clucene libiodbc redland raptor rasqal strigi virtuoso gawk libssh openslp oxygen-icons qimageblitz mlt doxygen graphviz gd2 xpm gts netpbm xorg-libXaw groff psutils xorg-libXmu ffmpeg XviD dirac cppunit faac faad2 lame libogg libsdl libtheora libvorbis libvpx yasm schroedinger orc speex texi2html x264 frei0r-plugins gavl opencv liboil libdv libsamplerate libsndfile flac sox file libao libid3tag libmad wavpack
---> Configuring db46
Error: db46 requires the Java for Mac OS X development headers.
Error: Download the Java Developer Package from:
Error: Target org.macports.configure returned: missing Java headers
Error: Failed to install db46
Log for db46 is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_ports_databases_db46/main.log
Error: The following dependencies were not installed: dvdauthor ImageMagick ghostscript xorg-libXext xorg-libX11 xorg-libxcb python27 db46 gdbm python_select xorg-libpthread-stubs xorg-xcb-proto libxml2 xorg-util-macros xorg-xcmiscproto xorg-xextproto xorg-xf86bigfontproto xorg-xtrans xorg-libXt xorg-libsm xorg-libice p7zip urw-fonts libdvdread libdvdcss kdebase4-runtime bison exiv2 hicolor-icon-theme kdelibs4 aspell texinfo xz aspell-dict-en attica phonon avahi dbus-python27 dbus-glib gtk-doc docbook-xml docbook-xml-4.1.2 xmlcatmgr docbook-xml-4.2 docbook-xml-4.3 docbook-xml-4.4 docbook-xml-4.5 docbook-xml-5.0 docbook-xsl gnome-doc-utils intltool gnome-common p5-getopt-long p5-pathtools p5-scalar-list-utils p5-xml-parser iso-codes libxslt py27-libxml2 rarian getopt py27-gobject libffi libdaemon libglade2 gtk2 atk gdk-pixbuf2 jasper pango Xft2 xrender xorg-renderproto cairo libpixman xorg-xcb-util shared-mime-info xorg-libXcomposite xorg-compositeproto xorg-libXfixes xorg-fixesproto xorg-libXcursor xorg-libXdamage xorg-damageproto xorg-libXi xorg-libXinerama xorg-xineramaproto xorg-libXrandr xorg-randrproto py27-gtk py27-cairo py27-numpy atlas gcc44 gcc_select gmp mpfr gzip fftw-3 py27-nose py27-distribute py27-py cyrus-sasl2 dbusmenu-qt git-core curl curl-ca-bundle p5-error rsync popt qjson enchant hunspell flex giflib gmake grantlee kerberos5 gnupg libusb-compat libusb libart_lgpl liblzma openexr ilmbase gsed pcre qca shared-desktop-ontologies soprano clucene libiodbc redland raptor rasqal strigi virtuoso gawk libssh openslp oxygen-icons qimageblitz mlt doxygen graphviz gd2 xpm gts netpbm xorg-libXaw groff psutils xorg-libXmu ffmpeg XviD dirac cppunit faac faad2 lame libogg libsdl libtheora libvorbis libvpx yasm schroedinger orc speex texi2html x264 frei0r-plugins gavl opencv liboil libdv libsamplerate libsndfile flac sox file libao libid3tag libmad wavpack
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see
etienne-gruazs-MacBook-Pro:~ etiennegruaz$

Hello,
can I run Kdenlive under MacBook Pro 13" i7 2.7 10.6.8??????
I don't understand how, I get stuck

Hello,
somebody can help me, I just need to now how to install kdenlive on a macbook 13" intel i7 2.7, is not so easy, can you tel me step by step how I have to do,
best regards

Yes, finaly

I can run Kdenlive8.0 on MacBook Pro 8.1

it run like a charm, exept aquisition

so now I am waiting for a Thunderbolt DD

Thank's to the dev team who do the macports

regards
Etienne

Kdenlive had quit working when I upgraded to Lion and I left it alone for a while. But I have come back to try to solve some issues and I got some but not all. First on the Mac, I had to completely uninstall kdenlive and MacPorts. Then went right back and reinstalled MacPorts, followed by Kdenlive. Thanks to the tips by Michael Allen Warner (http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/tips-building-kdenlive-mac-os-x), I was able to get past a hang up with smake and one or two others, and finish compiling. I now have version 0.8.2.1 with Xcode 4.3. It is working but in the Config Wizard on the last page it shows that Kdenlive doesn't have genisoimage or mkisofs, and xine. I am not able to install any of those. I am currently waiting for a rendering to finish to see if I'll be able to burn a DVD.

I did run into a curiosity during editing where I was adding a title clip. Whenever I clicked to select a color whether it was for a font, a font outline, or the background, the color dialog appeared behind the title editing box and I couldn't see it until I moved the box to uncover it. Weird. I am sure I will find some other curiosities in playing with it some more.

Now, onto my other problem. I also run openSuse 12.1 on my home PC and had no trouble whatsoever installing Kdenlive, though I did have to remember to install ffmpeg, mlt, and a couple other dependencies as well. It runs well and seems stable, although it will not allow me to render regardless of which profile I select. It quits with a corrupted file every time. I could sure use some help with this one as I like it much better than the one on my Macbook Pro. It at least allows me to change themes whereas the Mac only gives the default theme (not a real big problem, but still...).

Any ideas on either of these questions?

Update: on the Mac - rendering completed, but I am unable to use the DVD Wizard because of no mkisofs, even though cdrtools is installed.

Does anyone know approximately how long it will take for kdenlive 0.9 to get pushed to Macports? I'm so excited to use it haha.

Did you use the command "%sudo port install kdenlive" or did you use the command "sudo port install kdenlive".

From your error message it seems that you somehow used the % as part of your command. The % depicts your command prompt and is not part of your command.
If so, use the command "sudo port install kdenlive" (without the double quotes) ;)

Hi:

I'm reasonably knowledgeable in Windows (hate it!), have good knowledge of Ubuntu Linux (love it!), totally newbie with Mac. I recently acquired a Mac Mini with Mountain Lion OS installed and wondered how close to a clean install is Kdenlive with MacPorts for this OS. As I said, I'm a newbie with the Mac and I wouldn't have the slightest idea what to do If I get errors in my installation. Your honest commentaries will be really appreciated. Thanks.

@pseudo "Will there be ever a native OS X binary? "

http://www.kdenlive.org/forum/kdenlive-macosx-available-testing#comment-8987
Dan Dennedy said back in April 2010

"We do not provide binary packages for OS X (or any OS for that matter). You must use macports."

And this is because kdenlive is a linux program so it has lots of linux dependancies.

So I don't think you will ever get OS X binary.

Installed on an iMac 12,1 with OS X 10.6.8.
Installed Xcode as described on the MacPorts page, then ran update.
Then installed kdenlive without problems.
First I overlooked that I have to start dbus manually, so kdenlive did not start. After starting dbus, it started and worked surprisingly well.
For testing, I added a H.264 Full HD video to a project, worked already quite smooth. Transcoded to DNxHD, worked completely smooth. Added some simple effects, rendered out as H.264, runs just fine.

Only issue: When deleting a clip from the project, I get an error in the statusbar: "SDL failed to open audio: Audio device is already opened". Some time after clicking on "Confirm", kdenlive freezes.

Question: How do I delete a clip from the timeline on a Mac? There is no DEL key ;-) (am kubuntu user)

Cheers,
Torsten

>How do I delete a clip from the timeline on a Mac?

Try Timeline>Current Clip> Delete Selected Item