Kdenlive 20.12.0 appimage on Linux Mint 19.

I'm starting work on a video series that is partially animated, with a large number of small still image components employed and shared across all videos. All the images I'm using were drawn at the size I want them and none are intended to take up the entire screen, so to work around Kdenlive automatically resizing images on import (which really seems like it ought to be optional) without grinding my workflow to a halt for every video, I imported them all and applied a Transform bin effect on each to bring them back to original size before adding them to the library. That way, my image files will all be available for each new video without constant tedious resizing and repositioning for every file.

This works fine so long as I don't want to move or rotate the images in any way once I add them to the timeline. However, as portions are animated, in some cases I have to add a Transform clip effect for movement and rotation in addition to the Transform bin effect. The results of this are unusably bad; the images become blurry and badly pixellated, shrink substantially smaller than their original size, and sometimes vanish entirely.

I'm very new to video editing overall, so don't know if I'm just doing something wrong or found a bug or what. All images are png with transparent backgrounds.

this is a report about the double effect issue:

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/630

https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/364

this is a big issue... and there are no plans about fixing it... i tried also to create animations using transform / position and zoom / crop / tilt
but there are a lot of clipping issue... (like that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxNCOtvp9dE )

i solved partially the issues using the "CROP SCALE AND TILT " as a primary effect. (and after that the transform) ..
https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenl ... orking.png (using scaleX and scaleY)