Kdenlive - can't edit large (90 minute) clip

[Red Squirrel]

I want to grab a small section from a movie, but when I place the movie on the time line and play it to find the location I want to cut, it does not actually play in the right time span. The clip takes up 90 minutes of time line, yet plays as if it was only like 5 minutes long, so I only get the first 5 minutes of the movie and can't edit out the parts I want.

Is there a way to make this work? If it matters, the clip is a avi file.

 

[MrColin]

It might be something to do with the way its encoded or maybe a bug in kdenlive. I would try using mencoder (command line) with time parameters you found from playing it in a video player, it may take some trial and error.

The mencoder website has lots of examples for just about every use case.

 

[Red Squirrel]

hmm never thought of just trying to convert it to another format. I will try that and see what happens.

How do you get the frame rate from a video? Whatever format I convert to I want to make sure I use the same frame rate. In kdenlive it just shows up as "-nan".

 

[Red Squirrel]

There was a reencode feature in the library that I never noticed, I tried a few till I got a result that worked. So all is good.