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I’ve slightly improved the Light Graffiti effect, especially for different colours painted over each other. Enjoy :) Light Painting 2 from Simon Eugster on Vimeo.

This is only important for people which used to compile ffmpeg from SVN. The repository is now git://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git See also: Installing ffmpeg in our manuals and the ffmpeg.org Download page.

You may probably have noticed that some additional widgets have been added to kdenlive recently. And you probably do not want your kdenlive to look like that: (Notice that this is on a 1680×1050 screen. You absolutely don't want kdenlive to look like that on an even smaller screen.) It wont … » read more

Light Painting, also known as Light Graffiti or (partially) Lumasol, is so easy with a photo camera. You take a dark room, use a low shutter speed (several seconds) and paint in the air. What about video? Yes, it is possible! Actually the effect used ... [More] to create this video seems to be kept secret. (At least I couldn't find any technical information about it.) The idea is fascinating though, so I decided to write it by my own as a frei0r filter. It couldn’t be that hard. That is what I thought at the beginning. read more » read more [Less]

In the next version of kdenlive you will again find new scopes. This time not for video but for audio! I will also give some tips about audio in general (recording, perception, etc.), not only about kdenlive’s scopes. read more » read more

Merry Xmas! from Simon Eugster on Vimeo.

In the next kdenlive version (or in the current SVN version, if you dare compile it yourself :)) you will find a new option for the vectorscope: To draw I/Q lines. What are they good for? Read more … » read more

This article is going to give some tips regarding shooting Video with your DSLR and editing it in kdenlive afterwards. Camera hardware Lens Generally Primes are preferred over zooms in video. (Some people, like me, prefer it over zooms as well for ... [More] photography — but this is a matter of taste and of how you work.) Why that? A psychological reason is that eyes (at least mine) cannot zoom either, so zooming is hardly ever used in video. The technical reason is that Primes are cheaper to build whilst offering better quality: Better sharpness, bigger aperture (for limiting the Depth of Field). Opening the aperture gives you a very nice look. Examples for very popular primes are the Nikon 50mm f/1.8D and the Canon 50mm f/1.8 II. If you own such a lens, just don’t forget that you should not always shoot at f/1.8. ;) read more [Less]

The last scope (after the Histogram and the Waveform and RGB Parade) that is new to kdenlive 0.7.8 is the Vectorscope. This is actually the most interesting scope because it is quite different from the other ones and, secondly, is really useful for Color Grading. More in the full article » read more

Just wanted to post a screenshot of Kdenlive's current development version that includes a great new feature: a Stop motion utility. The only drawback is that this feature currently depends on a specific hardware to capture from HDMI. So how does it ... [More] work? It's very easy: just plug your camcorder or digital camera into the HDMI port of a Linux compatible capture card, and you get a live preview of the camcorder. Click on the capture button to grab an image, you can also transparently overlay the last captured frame on the monitor to easily see the difference with current live feed. So capture your frames, preview them with the built in preview feature and then click on the "Add sequence" button to add your animated stopmotion sequence to your project. Read more in the full article … read more [Less]