Add clips, titles, counters, transcode... Kdenlive tutorials part 2

In this part, we'll take a look at how to add various type of clips to your Kdenlive project, from video, audio, images, or even counters, titles, or plain color clips. Let's start !

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The clip bin is where all your clips are located. It will display everything, sorted by name by default, mixing all types of clips. If you're working on a complex project, I'd avise creating folders to store video, audio, and image clips in their respective folders.

The clip bin has a few options, to create folders, to delete folders or clips, or to switch the view mode. By default, Kdenlive will use the list view, but you can switch to an icon view if you prefer, as well as adding the date or description for each clip, or adjusting the zoom / size of each element.

The clips You can add clips simply with drag and drop, or by clicking on the "Add clip" button. Note that you can also drag and drop folder directly to the clip bin, and their structure will be preserved.

Here are your options:

• Add clip: this brings up the file picker, and so has the exact same behavior as clicking the add clip button
• Add color clip: this will ad a plain colored image, fro which you can select the exact color, as well as the duration, which you'll be able to adjust in the timeline later. This can be useful if you want to add transitions, or fades to a specific color.
• Add Title Clip : this will open the title clip creator, a simple interface to create titles, with images and text.
• Add Template Title clip: this allows you to add to your project a title template that you'vre created and saved before.
• Add Online resources: this allows you to add copyright-free audio, image, and video files, from a few different providers.

Slideshow clip A slideshow clip is basically a series of still images turned into a video clip. When you select this option, you'll be able to choose where the images to use are located, and select them depending on the mimetype (the type of file, for example JPEG or PNG), or a specific naming pattern in the file name.

You can then set the frame duration, which is the time each image will stay displayed before moving on the the next. You can select to use a dissolve, which is a simple fade between each image, or use a wipe, which is a more graphic way of making a transition be ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdyZ4e4wCs