Can Kdenlive execute macros for repetitive editing tasks?
I need to insert more than 1,000 still slides (svg files) into several videos. Each slide must have numerous settings applied to it, a process that takes several minutes manually per slide. If I could define a macro to do this, it would save many, many hours. Is this possible?
Thanks.
Kdenlive does not support macros, but you can copy and paste your effects applied to a clip. And maybe you can apply an effect stack as a default effect for a picture sequence - never tried that.
There is currently no scripting available in Kdenlive. Your best choice might be to write a script creating the xml for the project file...
In fact most of the xml data is in the MLT format. Kdenlive specific code is embeded in the <kdenlivedoc> tags.
You can find some documentation about MLT's xml format here:
http://www.mltframework.org/bin/view/MLT/MltXml
I don't think we have documentation for the Kdenlive specific code, but you should be able to figure most of it by testing. Otherwise, you can ask here...
regards
Excellent. Thank you. I will turn this project over to a programmer now, who is my son.
THANK YOU!!! I didn't realize the project file was xml (I had never looked). This is a viable solution.
I've done some experimenting and partially figured out the xml in the project file, at least as to what I need, but there are some weird things about the numbers that don't make sense.
Is there any documentation of the xml format of the kdenlive project file?