Quoting: Luke_Nukem

Quoting: rcritAnd yet still an empty desktop.

I don't know about you but the only time I ever see my desktop is when I first boot. That's a weird complaint to have.

I agree. My KDE desktop has been "empty" for years. I ran Windows that way, too, back when I was still dual booting.

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So it's pronounced "guh nome", huh? I didn't know that. I always thought the "g" was silent. I suppose next someone is going to tell me that KDE is pronounced "kuh dee".

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Quoting: SchattenspiegelThe only question I have is why was this not communicated directly after the release of the windows patch? All this massive delay did was fuel annoyance the of customers.

What do they care? They apparently have no further interest in Linux gamers as customers, so they're free to piss us off all they want.

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Unfortunate, but not surprising. Despite all the gains made in Linux gaming over recent years, we're still treated like second class citizens who should be grateful for any support at all.

At least Borderlands 2 is a solid and reasonably bug free product that I've gotten many hours of enjoyment from.

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Runs great on my system. Gave me roughly 10 more FPS, and it's silky smooth. Took a flight through New York City which is kind of the "iron man" test of flight simulators because of how dense the scenery is, and it hovered around 30 frames per second.

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I have read a few reviews, and I see nothing to convince me that CK3 is, at this point, a significant or meaningful upgrade from CK2 with its years of polish and expansion packs. Maybe in a few years, CK3 will offer more than what my version of CK2 offers now.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Mountain ManTo be honest, I can't think of many situations where I would want to add the exact same color or contrast effect to an entire timeline since raw footage can often differ in quality to one degree or another, so I would want to tweak each shot individually in order to maintain consistency. But I suppose this would differ from project to project.

One camera productions, shorter clips/scenes, this could very much be wanted. Or if you have each camera/source on each their channels.

But there's also quite common that you would want to apply a change to the whole production for artistic/stylistic reasons. For example add a tint/shade, or colour balance or some other filter/effect.

So it is an obvious feature of a pro video editor. And, as it was now discovered, so do KDEnlive :)

No, I agree it's a feature that some people would use, but I personally never would. I did a project a couple years ago that was several hundred shots, and I tuned each one individually (primarily fixing white balance) to maintain a consistent look across the entire piece. There's no way I could have used a "one size fits all" effect for it.

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Quoting: PhiladelphusI think you can do what you're asking by clicking and dragging a correction from the effect menu to the little boxes to the left of the various channels (where it says by default "Video 1", "Audio 1", "Video 2", etc.).

Good tip.

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Quoting: BeamboomFifty clips along the timeline, you want to nudge the contrast a little... Good luck with that. You need to have a very strong will on wanting to see this as an adequate solution to find this to be a good alternative. :)

To be honest, I can't think of many situations where I would want to add the exact same color or contrast effect to an entire timeline since raw footage can often differ in quality to one degree or another, so I would want to tweak each shot individually in order to maintain consistency. But I suppose this would differ from project to project.

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Quoting: Beamboom

Quoting: Mountain ManAs someone who has worked in the professional video production world for over two-decades, I can say with some authority that Kdenlive is a very power and professional level video editing tool that easily rivals alternatives like Avid and Premier.

Really? I'm no true professional but I've edited a lot of videos as a freelancer, once even edited a series broadcast on national television here in my country. So I have *some* background.

And I have to say, after Bitwig (daw) and Steam came to Linux the the one area left where I really miss the Windows alternatives is on video editing. Especially Sony Vegas, who ended up being my tool of choice. The workflow is just so very much better, and the tools/plugins so much more powerful and intuitive.

For example, I haven't found a way to apply effects (colour correction etc) on the entire video channel - only on the individual clips! I would guess it IS possible, but god damn how well they've hidden it. Or how to apply compression and EQ on the audio master bus? These things are *basic* features!

And especially larger projects with several channels of video and sound are so much more efficient and stable on the other editing suites, they run so much smoother. The stuttering and lags are way too prominent on KDEnlive - it really struggle at times. A wonder it doesn't crash more often, really!

But yes, KDEnlive is the solution for me too on Linux, cause the alternatives are so remarkably much worse. So here's hoping they get closer up to par with this new version!

You can reduce the stutters by knocking down the playback resolution.

Admittedly, I've not used Kdenlive for large, complex projects, but for the "quick and dirty" stuff I've done at home, it has every feature I expect to find in a non-linear video editor, and having used a number of video editing software packages over the years (multiple iterations of Avid, Soft Image, Final Cut Pro, and Premier Pro), I was able to pretty quickly find my way around Kdenlive's interface.

However, to your point, like any free and open source piece of software, it does have certain limitations and deficiencies, and many are fairly easy to work around -- such as no adjustment layer that can be applied to a whole timeline; instead, you can create a color effect that you like, save it, and then easily apply it to other clips.

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