• drcouzelis@lemmy.zip
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    1 year 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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      1 year 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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      1 year ago

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