Hi all, I'm a heavy kdenlive user since almost a year, and I want to thank you for the great piece of software. Now, I'm thinking about contributing to kdenlive in FCP export tool (and in future in other things which i think may need improving).
Short version of the story: I made a feature film with kdenlive (~20 minutes running time, 80GB of media). I needed to export it to either FCP or Avid but couldn't find any plugins/scripts. So I've made a kdenlive export tool to FCP7, and from there, using (now free) Automatic Duck to Avid. Longer version of the story: You may wonder why I needed to export to FCP or Avid. It is not because there was any weakness with kdenlive. In fact I managed to produce pristine quality DNxHD output video ready for publishing/distribution. However I'm not a professional movie editor, and when my movie was almost done, a professional guy saw it and liked it and offered his professional editing. He said he would need the project in either FCP or Avid and I couldn't deliver any of these easily. I played for some time with EDL export tool (available in resources), however I didn't manage to get anywhere with it. So after few days, basing my python scripts on that EDL tool (Kdenparse) I managed to export whole project to Avid flawlessly. Questions: I wonder if there's already any tool for achieving that (FCP or Avid export), maybe I doubled someone's work? If not, I wonder if there's any interest in sharing my tool ? (I think I've seen people requesting AAF/FCPXML export) let me know please, cheers, Piotr