By the way, I'm new here, so if I break any rules, let me know.

Basically, I really want to continue using Kdenlive, but the audio (if it's seperate from the video, like a background song or something) will de-align itself with the waveform and, ocassionally, have a weird speed defect where it will start slower and pitched down, and eventually (within a minute in) will have reached its normal speed. I'm a YouTuber (http://www.youtube.com/chrisjaydub), and I make an intro and an endscreen for all of my videos, both of which use a song in the background. I do precise cuts at the beats, and when rendered, will be slightly (or majorly, but this isn't as often) off.

No video is used in the intro, which is the one that gives me the most trouble. Only pictures. But the problem arises before I even add those to the timeline.

Ubuntu 14.10, System76 Ratel Performance.

What versions of Kdenlive, mlt, ffmpeg, frie0r do you have?
How did you install them?

I have the latest version of Kdenlive (0.9.10). Not sure about the other things. Tried again today after restart, and I had no issues making the edit. When I rendered, the speed issue was present, though (see it here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6ENWL ... sp=sharing). The song was supposed to be at least twice that tempo, and as long as the video is.

I installed it through the Ubuntu Software center. I may have used the terminal to update through the PPA, but I can't remember.

There have been issues with compatibiliity between the packaged kdenlive and packaged melt. And since you used software center you will have the packaged versions.
I suggest you try sunabs bleeding edge ppa. If you instal synaptic package manager you will be able use it to find out what versions of things you actually have.

How would I go about installing said ppa?

chrisjaydub wrote:How would I go about installing said ppa?

see https://kdenlive.org/download-ubuntu

see https://kdenlive.org/download-ubuntu gives you info about Sunabs "stable release" repository. This might work better than the standard packages you get out of software center.

Sunab also has a bleeding edge repository as described https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manua ... ab.27s_PPA

Instructions on how to use are at the PPA https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/u ... enlive-svn

ttguy wrote:see https://kdenlive.org/download-ubuntu gives you info about Sunabs "stable release" repository. This might work better than the standard packages you get out of software center.

Sunab also has a bleeding edge repository as described https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manua ... ab.27s_PPA

Instructions on how to use are at the PPA https://launchpad.net/~sunab/+archive/u ... enlive-svn

This, unfortunately, still did not work for me.