With the recent version of Kdenlive and MLT when using text shadows the new, larger bounding box is calculated incorrectly, not taking the shadow extend fully correctly into account. This effect becomes most prominent when using a shadow with a negative X axis offset. In addition, this also leads to the text getting cropped at its right border. Please see the attached example project as well as screenshot. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open attached Kdenlive project (that consists only of a single title clip with large text and a shadow offset to the left) 2. Open the title clip in the title editor. 3. Zoom to 100% Actual Results: The shadow to the left of the text has been cropped. In addition, the right of the text (the "t") has been cropped too. Expected Results: Shadow correctly shown in all dimensions; no cropping of the text regardless of the shadow offset values chosen.
Created attachment 98425 [details] example Kdenlive project exhibiting the shadow crop bug
Created attachment 98426 [details] screenshot of title with shadow crop bug Please note that the shadow is offset to the left; however, the shadow to the left of the top bar of the "T" is cut off, as is part of the final "t".
Please note that the clipping not only happens in the title editor, but also in the normal rendering of this title clip; albeit to a lesser extend, but still visible. Please see the attached second screenshot: it shows the title clip magnified in the project monitor. When you check the shadow at the left end of the top bar of the "T" you'll notice that the shadow isn't smooth but slightly cropped. In contrast, other regions properly show a smooth shadow.
Created attachment 98427 [details] screenshot of project monitor with rendered title clip: shadow clipping to the left of the top bar of the letter "T"
I just fixed the rendering issue in MLT's git. Preview in titler still has to be fixed.
Git commit 4584c15a5d9017d1797955acf6497be0df1e068c by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 21/04/2016 at 22:38. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'Applications/16.04'. Titler: fix shadows clipped and cannot desactivate text editing M +59 -18 src/effectstack/graphicsscenerectmove.cpp M +18 -3 src/effectstack/graphicsscenerectmove.h http://commits.kde.org/kdenlive/4584c15a5d9017d1797955acf6497be0df1e068c
This is fixed now, thank you very much Jean-Baptiste! Setting this to RESOLVED FIXED.