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.
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
Personally, the only thing I want is better crop/scale/zoom to conform badly letterboxed video to your timeline resolution. It can be done, but the ergonomics are awful, and its not clear which of the 3 crop filters actually do the thing.
Yes, if I could go back in time and edit my post I would love to see that too.
In Camtasia it was SO easy to do really basic things like...
- Add image to project
- Drag it onto your timeline, it becomes a track
- In the video preview area, use the mouse to move + scale + rotate it and hold ALT to crop
- Optionally fine tune anything you want with text inputs and numbers
The video preview area even had general purpose guidelines for easily centering objects within the video's frame and other tracks relative to your image's track.
It was the most intuitive thing you can possibly use and took seconds to do any type of crop / scale / rotate action.
With Kdenlive, if I want to crop, rotate or scale something I almost always have to find a YouTube tutorial to figure out how to do it. There's 100 ways to do it and all 100 ways are the most user-hostile workflows I've ever seen in any app, like having to manually input X / Y coordinates by hand to move something.
The only reason I don't continue to use Camtasia 9 is because I switched to Linux.
I've made 1,000+ videos and I've absolutely noticed my video quality get worse after I switched to Kdenlive because doing almost anything takes so many more steps. It's like a death by a thousand paper cuts and it makes the video editing process no longer fun.
I wish I knew C++ or I would fix every single thing but I don't. I offered to donate money to the project but it didn't seem like the creators were interested in trading money for features (fair enough). I guess it's just disappointing because the project has really good bones, it has a lot of great features, I want to like using it but the UI for so many super common actions oftentimes leaves me in a state of disbelief.
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.