The PK301 comes with some windows software to covert files fro playing on its internal SD card. It's a customised version of Arcsoft media convertor.

The software settings as I can extract them from the arcsoft software are:

Video Resolution: 720x480
Video bitrate: 1536Kbps
Video Frame rate: 30.00
Video aspect ratio: 3:2
Video codec: Arcsoft H264 codec
Audio codec: PCM, 44100Hz

I'm a newbie to both video editing and kdenlive. Is there a profile which matches this so I can prepare movies directly in kdenlive? Or how can I create a custom profile?

Any help appreciated. I find the different video formats absolutely bewildering.

It's a little painful trying to learn. I can't find any documentation.

I can set a project profile, but the render profile seems to use a different set of info. When rendering I can't select the project profile. I'm trying to create a custom render profile. The options *seem* to be ffmpeg options, but they are slightly different, so I can't be sure.

So far I have:
f=avi vcodec=libx264 s=720x480 b=1536k aspect=%dar acodec=pcm_s16le ab=128k ar=44100

I need to set aspect ratio to 3/2, but I've been all through to profiles looking for a syntax example, but they all use the variable %dar.

The %dar variable in the rendering option means that it will use the display aspect ratio of your project's profile.

So you just need to make sure that the project profile you created has a display aspect ratio of 3/2.

regards
jb