New to the world of video. I want to create a video consisting of screenshots and narration.

What still format is best (jpg, png, other)?

How do I load in the stills and set the time for each?

John Culleton

Warning: I never did this before, so I may be wrong here.

As for the format: this depends on the kind of pictures you have: for technical illustrations, et cetera, a non-destructive compression format, such as png is ideal. For photos, etc, jpeg is a good candidate; the quality depends on how you compress the images. The less you compress, the better the quality. But this should also match the desired render quality. If you later render with a low quality, then all quality you put into the process is lost.

As for your stills: to my limited knowledge you just can drag the individual stills to the timeline and resize them to length you want them to be. For title clips I do the same and as a title is basically kind of a still, picture files should work the same. For setting the length you can either grab the start or end of the still in the timeline and drag it to length, or you double click on the still in the timeline and set the length in the dialog that then appears.

Hope that helps a little bit.

Thanks! sounds simple. Any other users care to comment?

Thanks! sounds simple. Any other users care to comment?

What I did is using Celtx to first order my shots and add the text, then record the text. This gives you a fixed length for each shot, so you do not need to guess how long you should display the image: Just add the audio first in kdenlive and then the images.

For the source material as DiveO said: Try to keep the original as high quality as possible, you can always compress the output, but you cannot recover information that has been compressed away lossily.

Maybe you want to give the WebM codec a try: I had very good results (regarding file size and quality) for videos consisting of mainly still pictures.

Simon