Can anyone help with this? The Kdenlive File Format docs
(https://community.kde.org/Kdenlive/Development/File_format) are out of date
and don't discuss any of the below.
Thanks!
Tom
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 10:34:51PM -0600, amin...@mailbox.org wrote:
> With the new Kdenlive version I've got (20.12.3), there are a bunch of new
> things I'm trying to get my head around in the project XML. Here's a snippet
> with a few of them:
>
> <playlist id="playlist6">
> <entry producer="1" in="00:00:00.000" out="00:00:22.042">
> <property name="kdenlive:id">2</property>
> </entry>
> <blank length="00:00:01.042"/>
> <entry producer="producer0" in="00:00:01.125" out="00:00:04.958">
> <property name="kdenlive:id">3</property>
> </entry>
> <blank length="00:00:01.208"/>
> <entry producer="1" in="00:00:00.000" out="00:00:04.958">
> <property name="kdenlive:id">2</property>
> </entry>
> <entry producer="producer0" in="00:00:00.000" out="00:00:01.083">
> <property name="kdenlive:id">3</property>
> </entry>
> </playlist>
> <playlist id="playlist7"/>
> <tractor id="tractor3" in="00:00:00.000" out="00:00:34.292">
> <property name="kdenlive:track_name">Video 1</property>
> <property name="kdenlive:trackheight">71</property>
> <property name="kdenlive:timeline_active"/>
> <property name="kdenlive:thumbs_format"/>
> <property name="kdenlive:audio_rec"/>
> <track producer="playlist6"/>
> <track producer="playlist7"/>
> </tractor>
>
> The above makes a Kdenlive track ("Video 1"). In previous versions, this
> would have been represented as a single playlist. Now there seem to be two
> playlists - one empty - fed into a tractor.
>
> Here's an example of the new grouping syntax as well:
>
> <property name="kdenlive:docproperties.groups">[
> {
> "children": [
> {
> "data": "3:555",
> "leaf": "clip",
> "type": "Leaf"
> },
> {
> "data": "0:555",
> "leaf": "clip",
> "type": "Leaf"
> }
> ],
> "type": "AVSplit"
> }
> ]
> </property>
>
>
> I have many questions. Help with any of them is much appreciated:
>
> - Why are there two playlists for "Video 1"? What is the purpose of the
> empty "playlist7"?
> - Entries now have a "kdenlive:id" property. What is this ID? Note in the
> above the IDs are doubled: there are two different Entries with ID 2, and two
> with ID 3.
> - In the group syntax, what is the "data" property? As a guess, is it a
> kdenlive ID and a number of frames from the beginning of the track?
> - What group types are there other than "AVSplit" and "Leaf"? Where can I
> find a list of the types and their meanings?
> - What "leaf" types are there other than "clip"?
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
