Thank you François.
I expected something less tedious because there is a lot of footage.
Impossible to edit directly with audio from the camera. High quality
audio is important at this step.
And nesting each file in a project is a lot of work for an unreliable
result.
Another solution could be to export each HQ audio file after sync
process and join them with FFmpeg as second audio stream (batch process
and no re-encoding in this case).
I checked if it was possible to automate all this with opentimelineio
(to get TC in-out for each audio) but it's seem that opentimelineio
doesn't seem to work (but the API is installed).
I will continue as I did before : store footage at the beginning of the
timeline and copy-paste the files needed at the end of the timeline to edit.
So now I'm sure there are no other solutions in this case.
Thank you very mush for your help.
Cheers,
Loïc
Le 16/12/21 à 15:33, François Téchené a écrit :
Hi Loïc,
I think that the "save timeline zone to bin" feature just saves a cut
from a clip to the bin. It doesn't nest a portion of the timeline.
My personal workflow with Kdenlive is to do all my edit with the audio
from the camera. Once I am happy with my edit, I create a new project
to sync the high quality audio to every single shot that I used on my
edit and I render a new footage file for each of them. Finally, I
replace the footage clips in my edit (right click on the footage clip
and choose "Replace clip").
While I think that this workflow works well, it is not ideal because
re-rendering high quality footage for each clip may consume a lot of
hard drive space.
Another solution would be to make each audio synced clip as a new
Kdenlive project and import each project to the main project bin. That
is the only way I found for nesting timelines. However, in my
experience, nesting Kdenlive files is pretty slow and not always reliable.
The best solution would be to be able to sync up the audio with each
clip at the Project Bin level. I don't know if this kind of feature is
planned for a future version of Kdenlive but that would be awesome!
Cheers,
François
On 16/12/2021 11:22, Loïc Vanderstichelen wrote:
Dear Kdenlive Team,
I have a question about the workflow and I don't know how to solve it.
As you can see on the following screenshot, we are working with a
camera and an external audio recorder.
Then we sync both audio tracks (thanks to the align audio to
reference) and we group clips (CTRL + G).
I don't know if there is a way to add those synchronized clips to the
project bin ?
I tried with a mark in-out on the timeline and "save timeline zone to
bin" but no effects.
Kdenlive's screenshot
For the moment, I place all the dailies at the beginning of the
timeline and the editing at the end.
Nested timeline will be definitely helpful in this case in a way
dailies can be placed on a separate timeline while editing is done on
another.
I don't know if anyone works the same way (I think it's a very common
situation) and how do you solve the problem ?
Thank you very mush for your help.
Loïc
