Hi I'd like to know how to render to m4v from kdenlive so i can then import the movie to an iphone/ipod touch.

Right now I'm using Arista Transcoder to do it, but I'd like to do it directly from kdenlive.

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Rico

I will consult the Handbrake preset, try to create the equivalent in Kdenlive, test it on a device at work and get back to you.

thanks ddennedy that will be really helpful. I tried to set the H264 and AAC as indicated by the apple specs with no luck, the iPhone keeps complaining about the format. I hope you'll have more luck.

cheers

Rico

Any updates on this thread?
Are there settings I can put into Kdenlive to get a video encoded to a format that iTunes/iPod/iPhone likes.

On a related note - I can see where I can contribute rendering profiles and MLT profiles. But where can I find the contributions of others on the web site? It is not obvious to me where these are.
If I could find them I might be able to answer my above question myself.

ttguy

The shared render profiles are in Kdenlive application under the Settings menu.

Try this:
s=480x320 aspect=%dar progressive=1 acodec=aac ar=44100 ab=128k
vcodec=libx264 b=700k flags=+loop cmp=+chroma partitions=+parti8x8+parti4x4+partp8x8+partb8x8 me_method=hex subq=7 me_range=16 g=250 keyint_min=25 sc_threshold=40 i_qfactor=0.71 b_strategy=1 qcomp=0.6 qmin=10 qmax=51 qdiff=4 directpred=1 trellis=1 coder=0 bf=0 refs=1 flags2=-wpred-dct8x8 level=30 maxrate=10000000 bufsize=10000000 wpredp=0 pass=2

"The shared render profiles are in Kdenlive application under the Settings menu."
Cool. I only see about 9 of them. Is that the lot?

I tried the render profile you posted.

But kdenlive complains that the aac audio codec is not installed.

So I installed faac "an AAC audio encoder" version 1.26-0.1ubuntu2 and restarted Kdenlive.

But still no joy - "unsupported audio codec aac".

What do I need to get aac to be supported?

Yes, 9 is all that is shared now.

Ubuntu 10.04 does not have an aac encoder available through the ffmpeg libs - even the unstripped ones. Installing faac is useless to the ffmpeg, mlt, and kdenlive packages if it is not enabled within the ffmpeg build. Yes, I know this situation stinks! You can try changing that to the acodec=libmp3lame. I do not know if it works, but you can try.