On the bottom left it says "Cannot write to file /tmp/kdenlive_rendering_***Random String**.mlt.mlt."
When I try to render...

Random string well ... is a random string.

Kdenlive also doesn't show its glorious icon.. it instead shows a big fat ugly error button.

Is your /tmp full?

For starters, which Kdenlive version on which distribution and distro version? From your description, your problem starts much earlier: you installed broken packages and you should really kick your distribution packagers for not getting the job done properly. If you search this forum, you'll find a lot of reports caused by broken packages and missing dependencies.

Make sure that KDE Plasma is correctly installed, not just the KF5 libraries. This will bring in the required icons. Also make sure to have a recent MLT 6.2.0+ and frei0r installed. Also make sure that your ffmpeg actually works ... there are so many broken packages out there that cause all kind of crashes when trying to read the more obscure video formats generated by cheap Sony cams and other cheap stuff.

If you are on *ubuntu, see here: https://kdenlive.org/node/9460

TheDiveO wrote:For starters, which Kdenlive version on which distribution and distro version? From your description, your problem starts much earlier: you installed broken packages and you should really kick your distribution packagers for not getting the job done properly. If you search this forum, you'll find a lot of reports caused by broken packages and missing dependencies.

Make sure that KDE Plasma is correctly installed, not just the KF5 libraries. This will bring in the required icons. Also make sure to have a recent MLT 6.2.0+ and frei0r installed. Also make sure that your ffmpeg actually works ... there are so many broken packages out there that cause all kind of crashes when trying to read the more obscure video formats generated by cheap Sony cams and other cheap stuff.

If you are on *ubuntu, see here: https://kdenlive.org/node/9460

kdenlive 16.04.1
on Antergos

Hmmm I do remember installing a hefty update that day, but I remember it worked for a while after the install.

scummos wrote:Is your /tmp full?

No, I also cleared it multiple times and made sure I had proper permissions.


I don't remember seeing anything in the updates that might've broken it, but what else could it .. right?
Any suggestions?

EDIT: So I got two updates today and that seemed to fix the render problem lol although (not a big deal) I still get this ugly icon:
http://imgur.com/Qi4Blpq
Notice I always had a problem of duplicate icons, but it never bothered me. Yes, kdenlive is that film icon, but it always opens a question mark. Now it opens this awful error icon.

Sorry for posting too quickly before waiting a day for an update.. was just so worried all my hard work would have been lost or I would have to something drastic.

hello,

as a workaround try to export as a script: the .mlt file is created in you "scripts" folder instead of /tmp.
then you can run the script from the scripts tab of the render dialog.