In Kdenlive 18.12, importing multiple files at once (adding them to the project bin) would result in their being imported one by one. In Kdenlive 19.04, they are imported all at once, even when the files are on a HDD - and so the actual import speed is greatly reduced. I suppose this was done to increase the import speed on SSD drives, but on HDDs this actually hurts the import speed. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Create a new project. 2. Add to the project bin multiple video files that are on a HDD. OBSERVED RESULT The import jobs start all at once. EXPECTED RESULT On a HDD, the import jobs should be one-by-one (Only one import job running per HDD drive). SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Manjaro Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.15.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.57.0 Qt Version: 5.12.3 Kernel Version: 4.19.36-1-MANJARO OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz Memory: 23,3 GiB of RAM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This still hasn't been changed in Kdenlive 19.08. It still imports all the video files at once, which leads to a much slower import. It's also time-consuming to import them by hand one-by-one.
Thanks for your report, hopefully we'll get to it soon.
Expected for 21.08 https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/986
Thanks for the report we are tracking this issue over at gitlab. Please follow up on it there.
*** Bug 436294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This should now be fixed. If you want you can test with the nightly appimage (https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kdenlive_Nightly_Appimage_Build/) or nightly flatpak.
(In reply to Julius Künzel from comment #6) > This should now be fixed. If you want you can test with the nightly appimage > (https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Kdenlive_Nightly_Appimage_Build/) or > nightly flatpak. marking as fixed in gitlab