Workflow Tips - 2021 Kdenlive Tutorial

In this video, I will be sharing my personal workflow tips in Kdenlive. Eventhough Kdenlive may not be the best performer when it comes to video rendering speed, I find the workflow to be more efficient and it is here that I often try to find ways to save time. The Clip Monitor is often overlooked and I will show you several ways to speed up your editing by taking advantage several Clip Monitor functionalities. Memorizing some simple keyboard shortcuts will also help speed up your editing process.

Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:45 Using Clip Monitor More
1:51 Permanently displaying the audio waveform in the Clip Monitor
2:18 Setting In/Out Points using the Clip Monitor
5:27 Using the Logging Workspace to make notes
5:52 Quickly Navigating through the Timeline
6:40 Using the Editing Toolbar Keyboard Shortcuts
8:43 Quickly navigating between cuts in the timeline
9:07 Using the minimum number of Timeline Tracks
10:03 Use the Audio Waveform to guide your editing
10:57 Customizing the Kdenlive Interface to suit your needs

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OS - Pop OS 20.10
CPU - AMD 4600h
Mem - 16 GB
GPU - Nvidia 1660 TI

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[GaryB]

After starting to use Kdenlive recently, I hunted around YouTube for a few basic tutorials to get me started. Yours have proved to be by far the best. Thanks for your efforts.

[IvoPavlik]

What a nice collection of handy tips. I also found Ctrl+Space shortcut that plays the current in-out selection pretty useful. Especially if you are trying to do precise cuts matching music.

[DaVince]

One funny thing about this video, to me, is that the moment I first used Kdenlive I immediately started making intense use of the clip monitor and its features to save clips and notes. And here I find a video that puts these in the front as tips! :D It really is a life saver for stream clip compilations.

[mooishi]

Victoriano, your kdenlive tutorials are consistently helpful. I especially like that you provide links to the video clips you use, so I can follow along with what you're doing. The pacing and the level of detail is just right. Thanks!

[OldSchoolPatrick]

Thank you, Vic, you are helping me become more adept at Kdenlive!

[michaelbeetham]

Muchos gracias señor - I love Kedenlive and Blender because you don`t need an expensive 250 watt graphics card to make it work like the other popular (almost free) software.. Your tips made my day !

[STICKJACKET]

Thank you. The clip monitor tip is what I needed.

[sajlavaldosa]

So far, the best way to present a tutorial.

[HabonRoofPlayground]

Final tips is very very useful when there's a lot of clips need to edit!

[Teklectic]

Very nice, Extract Clip is going to save me a lot of time, and it also helped me find Extract Frame, thanks!

[TC-rvsz]

The clip monitor tip is amazing!! very intuitive way to work, thank you so much for sharing

[lightsideendings]

Cutting, deleting, and moving over in the timeline is a habit I brought over from PowerDirector. Making in and out points in the Kdenlive clip monitor is SO MUCH better, not to mention cleaner!

[RaquelAntaB]

Hi! I just started going throug kdenlive (coming from Premiere, pretty advanced) so videos like this are very useful to me. Just one comment: when you customize the toolbar, it doesn't disappear, it just weirdly goes to the bottom of the interface, so you don't need to memorize where things are, you have them all right there, just under the timeline instead of on top of it. Thank you for your content!

[mauridocarmo]

The 'extract clip' tool is exactly what I was searching for

[AskBurlefot]

Very nice. Very useful, just the help i need starting to use Kdenlive

[EnglishwithAlan]

thanks for this, Vic. do you have videos on changing to time lapse or slowing down a video clip? also, do you have one on generating subtitles?

[LolasForeverHome]

Great video. Made really great notes, learned some really great tips.

I will be watching it again, and I will be making use of every tip you shared.

Thank you!

[rolandmarckwort]

Great videos, thanks for these! Only thing escaping me is how to export an EDL to another editor with kaden - possible?

[mortenkalland]

How about when you make a clip longer (slow motion) between two clips? Why does not the clip on the right get moved to the right?

[datosleo]

Thank you for sharing your workflow. Simple and easy to follow.