Is it possible?

I have to wait abt. 6 hours to render a 30-minute video in 1080p 25fps HD format. If I make one little change somewhere, I have to do it all over again!

Otherwise, it works OK.

Thanks!

Interrupt, change and resume would only help,if you do not change parts that have already been rendered. And it is not supported by Kdenlive.

Render the complete movie in highest quality, when you are done with editing.

Up to then, use the preview (using 1080p you may like proxy clips) or render only that part, you want to check.

Or render the complete movie with lower quality and picture size as a preview.

Thanks ... don't know much yet about proxy clips, but it sounds like a good feature.

In the meantime, I discovered that you can render just a little part of a clip (selected zone) which makes it easier to test things. In 1080p HD, if you have any effects in place such as pan & zoom, the preview stutters pretty badly while rendering on the fly (at least with my current hardware it does).

Proxies are pretty much essential for HD whatever hardware we have as kdenlive / MLT / ffmpeg doesn't really make use of hardware acceleration, OpenCL or CUDA type technologies other than vdpau for certain formats as a compile option I think, but may be wrong about vdpau.

Having to re-start the entire rendering process totally sux in this day & age.

I was using "Smart Rendering" in MediaStudioPro as long ago as 2007 and that's when I gave up filming / editing weddings !

Smart Rendering resumes or only renders the bit that's been changed.

I have been rendering this 1 hour wedding video (yes I got roped into "doing" a family wedding) since 11:30 this morning (it's now 17:17) and it's STILL got 7 hours to go.

Which means it's going to get cancelled as we don't leave computers/Tv's on when we're not here or in bed (we're going out in a mo)

YES I've had a graphics card catch fire !

Bah !

Last post from 2012. Not looking good is it !

Found thread through googling "Resume rendering in KdenLive". Forgot to check last post date so Thread resurrection !

MediaStudioPro $US 400.
Kdenlive $US 0
If you were to pay a developer to develop resumable rendering in Kdenlive I guess you could have it. But I doubt that someone it going to develop this for free just because you are paranoid about your PC catching fire if you are not there to babysit it.

I realise that but MSP has been dead for a few years now.

I'm just surprised that no-one has incorporated Smart Rendering yet in Linux NLE's

Oh, I have no problem donating to a project either but as a trucker I simply don't have the wonga to finance development on my own.