I have several questions about this install. I'll break the question/answer(s) out later

This applies to a Win10 installation. AFAIK Win10 is fully patched.

1) Is there a formal install process, or do I just create a shortcut to kdenlive.exe in program\kdenlive\kdenlive-17-4-3? I'm using a shortcut at the moment.

2) kdenlive can't find my VLC installation, and I don't see a way to tell it where to find VLC. Now what?

3) Trying to start a project, I can't make a browsed custom location show up. That is, I can browse to I:\Elements\YouTube but it doesn't show up in the window and neither does a type-in.

4) When I try add a clip from I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\, I can get to that point OK, but drilling down to I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\040717 isn't obvious. When I get there, the MP4's listed, when selected, are all called invalid by kdenlive. Resolve and Shotcut accept them. What's happening here?

1) Is there a formal install process, or do I just create a shortcut to kdenlive.exe in program\kdenlive\kdenlive-17-4-3?

That's it. We had the basis of an installer script but never integrated it. Maybe when Win builds won't be considered beta?

2) kdenlive can't find my VLC installation, and I don't see a way to tell it where to find VLC. Now what?

You're right, I can't find on Linux either!

3) Trying to start a project, I can't make a browsed custom location show up. That is, I can browse to I:\Elements\YouTube but it doesn't show up in the window and neither does a type-in.

Sorry I don't understand (not English user, and Windows only 5% of the time). Can you link to a screenshot?

4) When I try add a clip from I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\, I can get to that point OK, but drilling down to I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\040717 isn't obvious. When I get there, the MP4's listed, when selected, are all called invalid by kdenlive. Resolve and Shotcut accept them. What's happening here?

Maybe try a path without spaces?

Cheers

vpinon wrote:

1) Is there a formal install process, or do I just create a shortcut to kdenlive.exe in program\kdenlive\kdenlive-17-4-3?

That's it. We had the basis of an installer script but never integrated it. Maybe when Win builds won't be considered beta?

Sigh... Resolve, Shotcut, Magix, et al. figured out a way to deal with the betas. Surely... yeah, well...

2) kdenlive can't find my VLC installation, and I don't see a way to tell it where to find VLC. Now what?

You're right, I can't find on Linux either!

OK, if KDEnlive doesn't know where VLC, Xine, etc. are, so it goes. But is there a way to enter a setting about where they are?

3) Trying to start a project, I can't make a browsed custom location show up. That is, I can browse to I:\Elements\YouTube but it doesn't show up in the window and neither does a type-in.

Sorry I don't understand (not English user, and Windows only 5% of the time). Can you link to a screenshot?

4) When I try add a clip from I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\, I can get to that point OK, but drilling down to I:\Elements\AlpsTrip 2017\040717 isn't obvious. When I get there, the MP4's listed, when selected, are all called invalid by kdenlive. Resolve and Shotcut accept them. What's happening here?

Maybe try a path without spaces?

Cheers

3) and 4) are tied together it turns out. And it's very, very weird.

Settings->Configure Kdenlive->Custom project folder - There's a pre-defined location. It's not what I want to use. Click on the check box and the old value goes away. But... type in the new path (BTW, nothing typed in is visible), unclick Custom project folder, and there's a combination of paths. Try to edit them and it won't work. Click on the check box, making the path invisible. Click somewhere on the left side of blank field. Tap the <End> key, lean on <Backspace> until the cursor stops moving. Type in the desired path. Unclick the check box. There's the new pathway! How weird is that? OK, that fixes item 4), correct?

Go to add a clip from the path and probably drilling down a layer or two. <Double-click> on an MP4 and... it's added as a valid clip!

Bottom line: Something isn't right with the Custom project folder entry and display. How changing the project folder alters MP4 validity is a mystery.

I started a new project. The custom folder from the previous project remains defined. That's the good news.

I'm back to media files (mp4) that any other Win10 accepts is not valid according to kdenlive. Now what?