So, I like a lot Kdenlive and am proud to have used it fully for the TROM II documentary. I will praise it more when after the documentary is released. BUT.
Here's a very tiring and frustration situation for me: @sober_pirate correctly pointed out that the interviews are mostly very darkish. An easy fix tho. But Sasha's recordings are over saturated and it just so happens that this girl has these pretty red cheeks (haha) when she is excited, stressed, or drunk. And her cheeks go on and off, from red to pale, for the hours of recordings that we did. To make her look natural I have to tune down just that one cheek. At Dima's advice I started to use masks in Kdenlive and almost frame by frame track her cheek and tune it down. Very time consuming, but seems to be worth it.
I color corrected this documentary so much I feel like passing out at this point.
Back to my frustration.
In Kdenlive if you add effects to main clips, and these clips are in the timeline, then it can so happen to have these clips DESTROYED in the timeline. Meaning, you have 1 clip say in your Kdenlive BIN. You add 100 parts from it into the timeline on different tracks. Now you edit that ONE clip in the BIN to tweak the colors and realize that 67 of the scattered clips in the timeline look like this:
Instead of this:
And the only way to fix is to drag these clips to another track, if you have space left....and many clips have all sorts of stuff on top of them....
Imagine now checking the entire documentary tracks for such errors...
I feel like going insane. After working the entire day, now to get it all fucked.
Here's another fuckery that I get:
And I didn't even touched that video yet....
Truth is, you can't simply color correct in Kdenlive. You have to color correct then check your entire timeline for errors, then export and check what you exported again to make sure it did not render it badly.
For projects like TROM II, Kdenlive can be a massive pain in the ass.
And this was an issue for the past 2 years. I reported it countless of times....
Nothing annoyed me more than this color-fucking-correcting for this documentary...I wish I made it in black and white.
@futureisfoss@sober_pirate I thought so too but it is Dima's fault! haha. No but he is right he sent me some samples of how I should do it better and in some cases it is a big difference. It is fine. I may release it in June anyway for a plethora of reasons so that I do not rush with it. But if so I'll send it to you and a few other close friends in May anyway.
I want to talk to the trom friends maybe it is a good idea to release it with a few subtitles, meaning in a few languages.
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