bartoloni wrote:this is the only way to have a tywriter effect on "modern" version of Kdenlive... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5uBPpwOwlQ

egerlach wrote:I hope Rafal Lalik answers me and adapts his plugin

rafallalik
12 hours ago
OK, the effect is fixed. First, please be sure you recompiled the mlt_extra_modules with the currently installed mlt version, that the libraries are compatible. Then the xml effect file has slightly change, please download the newest file (see 2. point in the description) and replace the effect file on the disk. After that should work - I tested it.

egerlach wrote:BTW: Rafal didn't answer so far.

bartoloni wrote:well... seems fixed: https://youtu.be/I8oyiy3YzBI

rafallalik
12 hours ago
OK, the effect is fixed. First, please be sure you recompiled the mlt_extra_modules with the currently installed mlt version, that the libraries are compatible. Then the xml effect file has slightly change, please download the newest file (see 2. point in the description) and replace the effect file on the disk. After that should work - I tested it.

Hi guys,

it is Rafal here, author of the typewriter plugin.

Thanks for your interest in my effect, the comment section on you tube is very active. I also wasn't aware about the thread on the kde forum. AS I have no account there, I asked egerlach to quote my replay in the thread.

I read all you comments in the thread and took some time to think about the effect.

First of all, egerlach noticed that the code is 3y old. It is true and only because there was no need for changes, the mlt was changing but it wasn't affecting the plugin. The problems which you had from time were caused by changes in the kdenlive. First (like 1y ago) they changed how the parameters in the list are separated, the change was from , (comma) to ; (semicolon). Most recently they have put some extra check for mlt assets and as I used custom asset (what was not a problem in the past) it become now.

The second thing, I saw that you made an request for adding typewriter to the kdenlive. Please be aware, that my plugin is an extra package, so it will not work in kdenlive if the package is not installed. If the kdenlive devs decide that it doesn't hurt to have this extra file then i am fine. It will not show for people without installed module, and will work for those who have.

Third, I also come to the conclusion that having these beginning and ending markers are ugly and should no be there. So I redesigned a bit the effect, and I think the changes are better, but IT BREAKS COMPATIBILITY with previous version, so be aware if you make update. You will need to change text in your title slides, and remove and add the effect again to avoid any cached issues.

The change is that now the whole text is parsed, not only the part between markers. The markers were introduced due to way how data were passed to the mlt plugin from kdenlive. It is XML format and I wanted to have clear markers where the typerwriter macros are inserted in the data. Now I decided to use libxml2 library to parse and extract the content of the macro. It means additional dependency but I choose libxml2 because it is very popular and is installed on almost every Linux. If not, you should install packages, usually libxml2 and libxml2-dev, the name might depend on your distro. I did not test it under Windows as I do not use it. But I know that libxml2 is also ported to Windows so if some of you uses Windows and can test it I will appreciate.

The new version is tagged v0.1.0 and after committing it I realized it has some problems with situation where you edit the clip after typerwiter effect was added. In my case removing the effect and adding again didn't help. I will need to check it and should be foxed in version v0.1.1. Also current version supports only single text field (previous could support multiple text fields in a single clip), but this should be also fixed in v.0.1.1.

The last change is that, now the kdenlive effect is included in the code in the 'data' directory. You can copy it manually to kdenlive, or use additional option for ./configure script to install it automatically. Just follow the README.

That's all for now, if I have some new news, I will forward them to you via egerlach. Have fun with typewriter.

Also, if you have suggestions for the effect, do not hesitate to write to me. My e-mail is in README. Or fill an issue on github.

Regards,
Rafał