Hey guys, I can't seem to find a thread for trouble shooting. Sorry if I'm posting in the wrong place! If this issue has been answered before, please point me in the right direction.
So, I add a clip to my timeline and control left-click it to select it. All that happens is the outer frame turns from blue to yellow. I click on an effect from the effects panel and all it says on the bottom is select an item to add an effect. Am I missing something? Why can't I simply select the clip on my timeline and add an effect. I want to edit within the effects window.

Also, I can click and drag effects onto the clips on the timeline, but it only allows me to control the key frames on the clip.

I remember having this same little issue a long time ago and I can't remember how I got around it.

Let me guess, this is about kdenlive? you apparently didn't search very long...

jptoikka wrote:Also, I can click and drag effects onto the clips on the timeline, but it only allows me to control the key frames on the clip.
I remember having this same little issue a long time ago and I can't remember how I got around it.

Hi Jptoikka, can i ask you what version of kdenlive are you using? (and for what platform? Linux? Windows?)

Mamarok wrote:Let me guess, this is about kdenlive? you apparently didn't search very long...

I'm using Kdenlive 19.08.3

It also says enable edit mode in monitor to edit effect. I search in the monitor properties at the top and can't seem to find anything about enabling effects.

sorry but i can't understand the question...
when you first install Kdenlive (Linux or Windows) there is nothign to enable or disable...
usually if users are coming from an old version of kdenlive, just to remove the preference files and folders from previous version of kdenlive..
(also try to click the "reset configuration" on help menu.

when you place a clip from project bin to timeline you can add effects dropping them from effect window (video effects on video tracks .. and audio effects on audio tracks)
or you can drop they (without the effects window displayed) from the FAVORITES icons (if the effects you usually use are marked as favorites) just on top of timeline.

there are also another way to add most useful efefcts directly on lcip using right mouse button on clip and selecting "insert an effect" "insert a composition"

BTW your issue can be a different one... but for now i can't uderstand what mean that you can only be able to add keyframes... a lot of effects have not keyframes at all.. if you are talking about compositions you have to edit them directly on preview window.

Same for me, following scenario:
I have a video clip, put it on timeline add rotoscope to it and expect to be able to edit the points for the rotoscope curve. the same procedure worked a few days ago in another project. Now, in this new one I am talking about, when I click on the project monitor expecting to draw the rotoscope curve, the video starts playing. Not what I want as you might imagine.
I can also see a message in the status bar of kdenlive "Enable edit mode in monitor to edit effect". I do not see any "enable edit mode" switch or button or similar in the monitor or in any of the menus in kdenlive.
Anybody out there has a hint what to do to get the effect working again?
I use kdenlive Version 19.08.2
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I tried a couple of things, different video formats, fresh projects, and discovered that even the project I created a few days ago shows the same symptoms. What seems to have changed the game is ta change in the config file (just a best guess after i had a quick look in the sources). I would appreciate some feedback from you guys on this.
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~/.config/kdenliverc

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showOnMonitorScene=false

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showOnMonitorScene=true

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Using kdeenlive >5yrs by now for travel documentation with total time of about 15hrs of output videos, the longest about 3hrs. I consider myself somehow familiar with this tool.

just tried latest build on Windows and rotoscoping is working without issues.

do you have multiple effects on the same clip? (you have to not change any flag on Kdenlive configyration file) .. just be sure to have on the views the "PROJECT MONITOR" view. (is this one necessary to manually move points using mouse)

here an updated appimage: https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kden ... 4.appimage

Sorry to necropost, just thought I'd reply, since I just ran into this, and nobody's posted the super-easy solution:

TL;DR: The "properties" panel needs to be visible for it to work. View --> Properties.

Without the properties panel: double-clicking on an effect will result in the misleading "no item selected" error even if your clip is selected. You can still drag effects into the clip, but then you can't do anything with them.

WITH the properties panel: double-clicking on an effect works as expected (shows up in the properties panel, and can be edited).

This is still happening today, on kdenlive 19.12.3.

Perhaps a better behavior for usability would be, as long as the clip is selected, double-clicking on an effect should always work, and the properties panel should always pop up if it's not visible, to make it intuitive that that's what the user should be looking at next.