Bug 492539

Summary: NVENC with mkv output
Product: [Applications] kdenlive Reporter: Die4Ever <die4ever2005>
Component: Rendering & ExportAssignee: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: wishlist CC: berndmj
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: git-master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
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Description Die4Ever 2024-09-02 10:44:16 UTC
SUMMARY

MKV output is much nicer so you can watch the beginning of the video before it's done rendering. I don't see an option to use NVENC and output to MKV like OBS does.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 10

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Kdenlive 24.11.70 daily build from Aug 31st kdenlive-master-8737-windows-gcc-x86_64.exe
Comment 1 Bernd 2024-09-02 14:19:05 UTC
(In reply to die4ever2005 from comment #0)
> MKV output is much nicer so you can watch the beginning of the video before
> it's done rendering. I don't see an option to use NVENC and output to MKV
> like OBS does.

You can simply create a render profile/preset with matroska as the container. Go to Menu > Project > Render, select the profile you want to use with mkv, click on the "Save current preset as new custom preset", select "matroska" as container, and save it under a new name.
Comment 2 Die4Ever 2024-09-02 18:01:35 UTC
(In reply to Bernd from comment #1)
> (In reply to die4ever2005 from comment #0)
> > MKV output is much nicer so you can watch the beginning of the video before
> > it's done rendering. I don't see an option to use NVENC and output to MKV
> > like OBS does.
> 
> You can simply create a render profile/preset with matroska as the
> container. Go to Menu > Project > Render, select the profile you want to use
> with mkv, click on the "Save current preset as new custom preset", select
> "matroska" as container, and save it under a new name.

thanks that did work, that's a pretty hidden feature though, it should maybe be one of the default profiles