Reduce Render Time In Kdenlive

[@learningeveryday9603]

Thank you for this. Will try it out. I have been rendering at more than 1hr 15mins for 30 mins videos.

[@MrAustinMusic]

Good luck! I had noticed long after making the video that while the rendering seemed stable it'd sometimes affect the final output. So make sure you watch the video or at least skip through it to be sure the render is solid. I loved KDEnlive. It was a really solid piece of software with the limiting factor being the render capability. I don't use it anymore, but I still recommend it.

[@keithmiller9665]

Faster settings will give you reduced quality but much perhaps more importantly larger file sizes. Its a tradeoff that depends on the user, if you want fast encodes but can live with larger files then great. If the file is going to be downloaded over the network multiple times then the extra encoding time associated with a slower encode may offset the extra network bandwidth. So for KZbin for example smaller filesizes are important, for the home user maybe not so much.

[@MrAustinMusic]

There are a lot of downsides to this method such as error in the export. So you always want to check it. The feature is in beta last I checked. Not a bad way to speed things up but have to keep an eye on it.

[@fabclark123]

3:25 start imho

[@MrAustinMusic]

I can be long winded sometimes. Haha Thanks for putting a tag in!

[@fabclark123]

@@MrAustinMusic it was a great video! thank you

[@nguyenphuctien8757]

Thank you so much, you saved my day, 1 day to haft an hour. Its incredible

[@MrAustinMusic]

I did this video so long ago, I'm glad it is still helping people today!

[@StrangeStuff]

U saved 10 years of my life

[@MrAustinMusic]

Happy to help!

[@MoreGWH]

a much edited 5 mins clip rendering was 5 hours but now turned into 1 hour 45 mins. nice!

[@MrAustinMusic]

Glad it helped.

[@engenhariabrasil1883]

Great video, helped me a lot!

[@MrAustinMusic]

Glad it helped!

[@Luvela07]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! My Render time went from 3 hours for a 15 minuites clip to half an ohur!

[@MrAustinMusic]

Glad this helped out!

[@amwood]

On the render dialog just below the format box, I have found if you drop the quality down by one notch it speeds up the render time and there is very little loss of the final render. At least not on youtube. On the encoder speed, maxing it out will make your export file much larger, so default is the way to go. I haven't experimented by reducing it further to see what happens. I'm only a month into making videos, not an expert by any stretch.

[@MrAustinMusic]

Any research or knowledge into is good though. Opensource software thrives on the community helping each other, and relaying information to make the software work better!

[@amwood]

@@MrAustinMusic I have noticed a bug in the windows version, when you click a video on the timeline and choose speed. The dialog box that opens won't let me enter a number directly, I have use the little arrows or my scroll wheel. I work around it by copying and pasting the number I want it to be. I tried the keypad and the numbers above the keys..no joy for either. If you have a contact with the group maybe you can make them aware.

[@MrAustinMusic]

Thanks for sharing this! I don't actually use Kdenlive anymore, but still follow the project heavily (I'm waiting for better 4k support and stable multi-core rendering). I'll submit it to them, although I used that feature I believe on a few different occasions and didn't run into the issue. I'm curious if an update caused the bug.

[@isdakifu]

TYSMMMM cuz my orignal render was 6 days just for 3 minutes

[@MrAustinMusic]

Wow that is rough. Sounds like a computer upgrade might be needed in the future.

[@isdakifu]

@@MrAustinMusic Alright then thanks

[@MrAustinMusic]

@@isdakifu Also depending on what type of editing you're doing try Davinci Resolve, or Openshot. They're both far more developed. If it isn't a hardware problem and just software that could help too.

[@isdakifu]

@@MrAustinMusic kk ill try davanci

[@George27484]

Is there a way to use the GPU to export the project? I don't want to use the processor because I have only 4 cores

[@MrAustinMusic]

There wasn't a way when I made this video. According to this forum post it is only available for certain effects. forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?t=130935

From 24 to 7, thanks.

[@MrAustinMusic]

Glad it helped.

[@tsumii4384]

thanks for this so helpfull 14 min clip in 10 mins

[@MrAustinMusic]

Glad it helped!

[@orbitalplain4030]

It's "KD Enlive" how most of us pronounce it!

[@MrAustinMusic]

Good to know. Back when I first started using it in about 12 years ago I never quite learned. I don't use it anymore but still good to know. I always thought it would be KDE nlive because of the GUI KDE. Learn something new everyday! Thanks. Cheers.

[@edwinvervliet5964]

It stands for KDE non linear video editor

[@khrisscortez]

Ultra fast doesn't affect the quality of the video?

[@MrAustinMusic]

If I'm not mistaken it can, but the quality loss is very minimal. I haven't noticed a difference since using that setting.

[@khrisscortez]

@@MrAustinMusic I see. Thanks for the reply.

[@SoGoN]

I think your title should be Reduce Render Time instead of Increase?

[@MrAustinMusic]

You're right! I'll change that so it make more sense.

[@rarvlogs786]

what are yoi on about it does say reduce

[@SoGoN]

@@rarvlogs786 Hahaha it was changed. It used to be Increase.

[@MrAustinMusic]

Yep, I think I changed it immediately after you mentioned it. haha

[@dmitryponyatov2158]

What about distributed render using 2+ computers and modern networking hardware able to run starting from 1GBit al least between two nodes on any modern motherboard, and up to special hardware (used, from eBay) able to run at PCIe x16 speeds with RAM sharing? At least, more or less cheap dedicated disk storage can be fast enough to feed data and free processing for video render.

[@MrAustinMusic]

That is always an option. However a render farm is much harder to setup.

[@plgaming5123]

With my chromebook i 10min clip and render does like 2 hours

[@MrAustinMusic]

I can not imagine editing on chromebook. That sounds tragic.

[@johnjonjhonjonathanjohnson3559]

KUH DENN LIV

[@MrAustinMusic]

Was?

[@lara-lg4by]

You need to activate your Windows 10 Kms Auto can help you :)))

[@MrAustinMusic]

I actually got a new computer that it is active on. I agree though, the watermark is annoying! Haha

[@anmolpreet2351]

It took me 36 minutes to render a 3 second clip ಥ‿ಥ

[@MrAustinMusic]

That's awesome!

[@anmolpreet2351]

@@MrAustinMusic wait what? 36 minutes for a 3 second clip? Btw, I don't use it anymore my PC doesn't support it.

[@MrAustinMusic]

@@anmolpreet2351 Ah, I misread that. Haha I haven't used it in about a year and a half maybe longer. I switched to Davinci Resolve. Kdenlive is good just needs a lot more work.

[@anmolpreet2351]

@@MrAustinMusic I agree. 100%