• drcouzelis@lemmy.zip
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      10 months ago

      Is there an easy way to add text in Kdenlive? I’ve been using it for like a year and still can’t really figure it out. 😩

      Or a better tool for the job?

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        10 months ago

        Title frames are pretty inadequate for anything other than a home movie, in my opinion; though they’re the in-software topmost solution. I don’t think I’m alone in that notion.

        Personally, I usually just work up an image overlay in other software, like Krita if you want something from the KDE set, or Blender, or some other tool, and export it in a transparent-background format that Kdenlive can treat as a clip, like EXR or PNG; then I overlay it in the timeline. It works fine for videos and gives you a lot more stylization options.

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        10 months ago

        If I remember correctly text is an effect in kdenlive. It can be overlayed over any video.

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          10 months ago

          Yes, but sadly only one line at a time. No multiline support (yet)