diablo75
May 9th, 2009, 10:10 PM
I've been playing around with kdenlive lately and I used it recently to make a slide show. I did this by filling a folder with photos and renaming them so they would be sorted by alphabetical order into the order I wanted them to appear in the slideshow. Then in kdenlive, I would add a "Slideshow Clip", select the folder, set my duration for all slides, tell it to add a transition, and that was pretty much it.
But when I rendered it, I ran into some trouble:
For starts, the transitions (a fade with no luma selected) only seemed to be applied between a small handful of slides, out of over a hundred. In other words, most transitions were *snap* instant and not a fade of any sort. And the ones that did fade did not respect the transition duration I had selected (about 2 seconds). Finally, some slides would be brought into the slide show out of order. I had to split the source image folder into three separate folders, then import each one as separate slideshow clips and put them all together on the time line. Another reason I had to do this was on the very first render, only about half the pictures were rendered, and the last half of the video was solid black with the background music playing for 8 minutes or so. After splitting the images up into separate folders and rendering again, the very last slide that was suppose to show up didn't, and instead it looked like the next to last slide just moved up slightly to reveal the previous slide under it which looked like a glitch to me.
What I'm wondering is if anyone might know why the transitions didn't hold for most of the slide show and if there is a way to fix that.
But when I rendered it, I ran into some trouble:
For starts, the transitions (a fade with no luma selected) only seemed to be applied between a small handful of slides, out of over a hundred. In other words, most transitions were *snap* instant and not a fade of any sort. And the ones that did fade did not respect the transition duration I had selected (about 2 seconds). Finally, some slides would be brought into the slide show out of order. I had to split the source image folder into three separate folders, then import each one as separate slideshow clips and put them all together on the time line. Another reason I had to do this was on the very first render, only about half the pictures were rendered, and the last half of the video was solid black with the background music playing for 8 minutes or so. After splitting the images up into separate folders and rendering again, the very last slide that was suppose to show up didn't, and instead it looked like the next to last slide just moved up slightly to reveal the previous slide under it which looked like a glitch to me.
What I'm wondering is if anyone might know why the transitions didn't hold for most of the slide show and if there is a way to fix that.