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nickjjyesterday at 3:57 PM3 repliesview on HN

I wish Kdenlive had 2 things:

1. A way to play back videos at 2x speed while editing in an intuitive way (DaVinci Resolve does this perfectly).

TBH I'm not sure how this isn't a feature since it's straight up a 2x time saver for anyone editing a video since playing back a 10 minute at 2x is only 5 minutes of real life time.

With Resolve I can actively edit / cut / etc. my videos at 2x speed playback but the exported video comes out as 1x. In other words, this isn't a request to adjust the clip speed, it's 100% limited to playback in the editor. Also audio playback is perfect, it sounds exactly like a YouTube video being played at 2x.

With Kdenlive live you have to adjust the playback speed after every time you make a cut (stopping the video) which is very not user friendly and I don't know what algorithm they are using but the audio sounds really poor at 2x. It seems to skip every other frame of audio so it sounds like it's constantly dropping out and not smooth.

2. A revamped title creator so creating titles is as fast and easy as Camtasia.


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bltyesterday at 7:59 PM

The title creator is bad... as a total amateur who needs to edit a video every now and then, it hurt me.

mudkipdevyesterday at 8:28 PM

If anyone has a better workflow for creating lots of captions in kdenlive please let me know. I had to duplicate each title to the media library and drag it into the timeline, because if I simply copy/pasted then the text content/styling would be shared across instances

tester457yesterday at 7:46 PM

I wish Kdenlive had an api so that I could improve the QOL for myself.

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