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Tuesday 21 February 2017

Problems with KDEnlive video editor.

Since (more or less) abandoning Windows in favour of Ubuntu, I've been using KDElive video editor. For the most part it's been a great thing, but just before Christmas I got a new (albeit secondhand PC). After installing Ubuntu on it, I didn't have much use for video editing until the recent spate of projects...

So I went to the Ubuntu Software thing and got myself a fresh install.

Now, sometimes the "old" PC would get a bit crashy when editing video, but the new install was horrific. Utterly useless...

I search around for a few days, tried a couple of other video editors, which, whilst stable, didn't offer the great functionality of KDEnlive... I decided to persevere.

Well, it turns out the Ubuntu Software centre thing has a *very* outdated and buggy version.

So, the fix is to give Ubuntu the correct and current repository to get the software from....

Here's how..

Open a terminal (CTRL-ALT-T)

and type the following....

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kdenlive/kdenlive-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install kdenlive

Bingo. I don't think it's crashed once!



I hope this saves someone some time.


1 comment:

  1. You just educated someone today. Btw, Binfer is a handy tool to send videos without worrying about uploading. Another nice option to send big videos.

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