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>A video editor is an application that allows you to create a new video out of various scenes from one or more other videos. </para>
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>Before editing video on computer was possible, most editing was done on linear editors - these work by having essentially, two video recorders. The first would hold the video that you are editing together, and the second would be used to find the next clip that you want to record. Find a clip, record it, find the next clip, record it. This is called linear editing because the medium of tape forced things to be edited sequentially. If you have edited 10 minutes worth of footage together, and decide that you made a mistake after five minutes, you can't just "push" the last five minutes around to add space for new clips. </para>
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>Non-linear editing is by far a more flexible way of editing. You can place clips anywhere within your final video (in &kdenlive;, this is represented via the timeline), and you can move them around as much as you want, rearrange them in a completely different order. Best of all, at any point during this you can press play and (with a sufficiently powerful computer) watch back what you have done there and then. </para>
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>Ok, so you have started &kdenlive; for the first time and want to dive straight into creating your own video. This quick start guide will take you from start to finish of making your own video. </para>
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>When you first start &kdenlive;, you will have a window looking something like this : </para>
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>The panel to the top left holds various informational and editing panels about the current project. Of most interest to us for this tutorial is the Project List. This window shows which video clips are in the project. </para>
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>The panel to the top left holds various informational and editing tabs about the current project: </para>
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>The first one is the Project List tab. The Project List shows the video clips, images, slideshows, colour clips and title clips that belong to your project. </para>
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>Second tab is the Transitions tab. It shows you all available video transitions that can be used in your project and, while in editing mode, allows you to change different parameters. </para>
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>Finally, last tab is the Effect Stack tab. If you have different effects applied to your clips, in this tab you will be able to define the processing order and also parametrise them. </para>
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>The panel to the top right holds the various monitors that &kdenlive; uses. The workspace monitor displays the final video - what our final edit will look like. The clip monitor is used to preview clips, and to select a section of a clip to add to the timeline. </para>
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>The panel to the top right holds the various monitors that &kdenlive; uses. </para>
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>The Capture monitor allows you to directly capture video from a camera connected to your computer Firewire port. Provided your camera allows, you'll be able also to control it from the monitor (Play, Stop, FF, ...), preview your video and capture any part of it as a DV file. </para>
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>The panel at the bottom of the window holds the timeline. The timeline gives you a visual representation of your project, and shows when clips start, when they end, and in the case of overlapping clips, which one will actually be used (whilst the architecture is mostly in place, &kdenlive;/&piave; do not as yet support effects. This will be added in &kdenlive;/&piave; 0.3.0 </para>
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>Now that you have a little understanding about the layout of &kdenlive;, it is time to add some clips to the project. Now, it goes without saying that to get any further, you will need to have some clips on your computer that you can use. At this moment in time, &kdenlive; does not include capture capabilities, and so you must use another application to get the clips that you want. I recommend Kino, which you can download from <ulink url="http://kino.schirmacher.de/"
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>The panel at the bottom of the window holds the timeline. The timeline gives you a visual representation of your project, and shows when clips start, when they end, and in the case of overlapping clips, which one will actually be used. The timeline can contain multiple tracks. You can add video clips, sound clips, and other fancy stuffs to the tracks. </para>
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>Now that you know what all those sections and buttons in the window are, we will do a basic configuration for a project, add pieces of video and sound to it, move those pieces around and so on. </para>
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>Before starting your first project, please go to the Settings -> Configure &kdenlive; menu option to define your default preferences (e.g. working directory, number of tracks, capture settings, etc) and to the Project -> Configure Project menu option to define the characteristics of your project. </para>
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>It goes without saying that to get any further, you will need to have some clips on your computer that you can use, or capture them directly from your video camera. For this section we assume that you already have some files available that are supported by Kdenlive. </para>
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>Now that you have some clips, you can add them to your project. Select the Project List tab on the project pane, and then click on the "Add clip" icon in the top right to bring up the context menu. From here, select "Add Clips" to bring up a standard KDE open dialog. Find your clips, select as many as you want to add (select more than one by holding the Ctrl key), and they will be added! </para>
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>Your added clips will now appear in the project list, along with their duration and a few other pieces of information (like a thumbnail). </para>
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>For the purpose of this Quickstart guide, and in order to show you the basic &kdenlive; functionalities, we'll work with two of your clips, adding a title at the beginning, a video transition between them and a video effect to a part of one clip. Finally, we'll render the project to obtain a nice DVD ready to be burned and played on our TV. </para>
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>Firstly, we are going to create a title clip for your project. &kdenlive; is able to create simple titles. We can also work with external image editors (like GIMP) to create more sophisticated titles and then add them to the project list as explained above. </para>
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>When you click on a clip in the project list, the clip monitor will automatically load the clip. You can then press play on clip monitor and get an idea as to which bits of the clip you actually want on the timeline. Then, position the seek marker to where you want your clip to start and click the "inpoint" button. Move to where you want the clip to end and click the "outpoint" button. Finally, you can drag this cut-down clip by clicking on the video on the clip monitor and dragging to the timeline. The clip that appears on the timeline will be that part of the clip between the in and out points on the monitor. </para>
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>Moving the selected clips around on the timeline is as simple as clicking on them with the left mouse bouton and dragging them around. You can resize clips directly from the timeline. Simply move the mouse cursor to the the beginning or end of the clip you want to resize. Now, click and drag with the left mouse bouton to resize the clip. </para>
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>The other way is to select a segment of a clip and then add this segment to the timeline. When you click on a clip in the project list, the Clip Monitor will automatically load the clip. You can then press Play on the Clip Monitor and get an idea of which bits of the clip you actually want on the timeline. </para>
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>Sometimes you may need to delete (maybe because you let your camera recording without realize :-)) or apply a video effect to only a part of a clip. &kdenlive; allows you to do so by splitting the original clip. </para>
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>To split a clip, the easier way is to place the timeline cursor at the splitting point (you can adjust the exact position by playing with the "Next frame" and "Previous frame" buttons in the "Timeline Monitor"). Then press the right mouse button and in the context menu select option Razor Clip. With this option only the clip in the current track will be splitted. You can split all clips at that position selection option Razor All Clips. </para>
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>We are going now to add a transition between two clips. Transitions are normally used to smoothly change from one clip to another (or from one scene to another). Some transitions can be used also as video effects (Picture in Picture, for example). These powerful features are explained in detail in the manual, but for the purpose of this quickstart guide, we'll focus on an easy one, the crossfade transition. </para>
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>Effects are ways to change your original clip. Kdenlive comes with different effects that can be applied to the audio and others that can be applied to the video. The small number of standard audio effects can be easily increased if you use the Ladspa plug-ins (see this page to know how to load them). </para>
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>In this guide we'll know how to apply a "Greyscale" effect to a clip. This effect, as the name indicates, will take out colors from the video and display it in black and white (well, really using black, white and different grey tones! ). Normally, except some of them, the effects apply to a full clip so, if you want to limit the effect to just a part, you need to create "subclips" as explained before in this page. </para>
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>In the same way as transitions, you can also edit the effect parameters. To do so, select the "Effect Stack" tab in the Project Panel. Unfortunately, the Greyscale effect is so easy that has no parameters! </para>
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>But in this tab, you can also find some useful icons to organize the effects: - "Effect Up" to move the effect up in the list (that means it will be applied first to the clip) - "Effect down" to move the effect down in the list - "Reset" to reset all effect parameters to the default values - "Remove effect" to remove the effect from the clip </para>
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>The debug panel is of most use to developers of &kdenlive;. It gives a highly detailed account of what is going on behind the scenes of &kdenlive;. This section will not help you to understand the output of the debug panel, but will tell you why it looks like it is and how to operate it. </para>
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>On the left, the debug panel shows a list of the renderers in use by &kdenlive;. Each renderer has a name that says which part of &kdenlive; it is used by. There are three such renderers in the current version of &kdenlive;. Clip monitor handles playback of video in the Clip Monitor. Workspace monitor handles playback in the Workspace Monitor. The Document renderer handles all other tasks, such as determining the lengths of video files, and exporting the final video footage. </para>
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>If you select one of the renderers from the list, the text area will show all debug output from the renderer. For general usage of &kdenlive;, you do not need to understand this, but it is very important when filing bug reports to send a copy of these messages - doing so will better aid us in fixing your problems. Click the Save Messages button to bring up a standard save dialog in which you can save the output. </para>
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>There is a checkbox on the debug panel that allows you to turn off the output of the debug messages. This may be necessary on slower machines or if you run &kdenlive; for a long time, as keeping track of the messages does slow &kdenlive; down, and will consume more and more memory the longer that &kdenlive; is running for. </para>
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>The workspace monitor shows the video that is the result of the current timeline. It works in a similar way to the clip monitor. </para>
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>Inpoints and outpoints on the workspace monitor achieve the same purpose as they do on the clip monitor. You can choose a part of the current timeline, and drag a clip of it back to the timeline. You will get a "project clip", which is a clip that contains all of the clips on the timeline in the state when you made it. It is useful for grouping together a number of clips when you have finished editing them and want to be able to treat them as a single clip. </para>
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>When you have finished editing, you can render your project via the Render->Export Timeline menu. This brings up a dialog, which allows you to choose your export format, export options, and filename to save as. </para>
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