Since 15.04 or earlier there is "typwriter" effect missing. "title clip" -> write some text -> right hand "Effect" -> choose typewriter. I need it for educational affairs. See discussion https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=270&t=136665 . I already made a donation of 50€, thx for this wonderful software. Now bounty 60€ for re-implementation of that effect. BTW: I know typewriter is crashing nearly every time it's played in timeline. But thats not the problem, I am accustomed to that bug: switch off/on that video track an make checkpoints only.
I see that crashing bug was removed in 15.04.1 . Please take that code and implement it to 16.xx
hi i want to vote here.. +1 vote
Some progress so far? Will it be ported? When? thx to all programmers :)
(In reply to Eckard Gerlach from comment #3) > Some progress so far? Will it be ported? When? > > thx to all programmers :) In case you don't know currently all efforts are focused on the refactoring process[1], and having only two part-time active devs is not helping to make this faster. [1] https://kdenlive.org/2017/06/kdenlive-refactoring-preview-and-news/
Hello, Sorry for replying so late, it took me several trials to figure out what was going wrong… Actually the effect disappeared from MLT since ca0fc8d7b7d93cfde005d4cc76fbf0c5a913084a (March 2016) to fix a long standing crash with titles in Qt5 with multithreading: effects haven't been ported to the new drawing routine. (Note: it then should be available in 15.08 and 15.12?!) But it appears that the old code was kept, and is still accessible if you add a "compatibility" property to your text XML element. So before any change occurs (I'm quite slow to code anything), a temporary workaround to get the typewriter effect is to: - open your .kdenlive file with a text editor - find your title text string; it is contained in an encoded XML tag: <content [many properties]>Your text…</content> - anywhere in the properties (eg just before ">Your text") add the following properties: compatibility="1" typewriter="0;25" with 0 being the start frame of the typewriter effect, and 25 the interval (1 sec per character on a 25fps project) - note that 'compatibility' titles use the old rendering code, that crashes all the time with multithreading: set MLT threads to 1 in Kdenlive preference Good luck :)
Thx a lot. Sorry for my late reaction, but I didn't know that you answered. I need the functionality within kdenlive, so I prefer installing last version with typwriter, eg. 15.04.2. I now try to get that "old" version. Perhaps you can tell me where and how to get it.
(In reply to Eckard Gerlach from comment #6) > Thx a lot. Sorry for my late reaction, but I didn't know that you answered. > I need the functionality within kdenlive, so I prefer installing last > version with typwriter, eg. 15.04.2. I now try to get that "old" version. > Perhaps you can tell me where and how to get it. The typewriter effect is coming back: https://kdenlive.org/2017/09/randa-news-release-update/
When will be there a first linux version with typwriter?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 351168 ***