SUMMARY In one of my sequences, all the clips have been replaced with some strange phantom clips in a "Pasted clips" folder rather than using the source file. It seems to be related to the other .kdenlive file inserted in the sequence because the folder contains all the clips from that other file. The clip properties shows nothing but a nonsensical path E:/Projects/redacted/7.000000:E:/Projects/redacted/actual file.mp4 Each individual clip in the timeline has its own entry in the pasted clips folder. All the clips in the timeline have the correct durations set but they have no thumbnails. This is incredibly frustrating and I've lost all my work on this sequence. To be clear I will never use this program again because it is genuinely the least stable thing I have ever used. But I will help with clearing up this issue first because this is a project I want to succeed. Just a shame I've lost countless hours of my life. STEPS TO REPRODUCE Unsure - please help with obtaining logs (very complicated on windows) If I recall correctly, it happened after recovering the project after a crash. OBSERVED RESULT See above. EXPECTED RESULT It to work. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: 10 Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Sorry for this bad experience. It would be interesting to have your .kdenlive project file to debug this issue. It might be possible to recover the project file by editing the xml file and removing the extra "E:/Projects/redacted/7.000000:" that is prepended to the paths. We also have automated backups, so you might be able to recover a working version of your project using the File > Open Backup File option. It would help if you can give a little more context. How did you add the other .kdenlive project file inside a sequence ? Did you add the .kdenlive project file in the Media Bin ? Or did you do a copy / paste from one project to another ?
Created attachment 187334 [details] Weird project bin
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Mardelle from comment #1) > Sorry for this bad experience. It would be interesting to have your > .kdenlive project file to debug this issue. I will try, maybe I can use a placeholder clip instead of the original one which I'm not sharing due to privacy concerns. > It might be possible to recover the project file by editing the xml file and > removing the extra "E:/Projects/redacted/7.000000:" that is prepended to the > paths. > > We also have automated backups, so you might be able to recover a working > version of your project using the File > Open Backup File option. Somehow this bug has persisted through the backup files and through copies I had made of the original .kdenlive file. On further inspection, the bug seems to be during the loading procedure, as in when kdenlive is opening the file. I also noticed a little "This project was modified by kdenlive" when it's opening. > It would help if you can give a little more context. How did you add the > other .kdenlive project file inside a sequence ? Did you add the .kdenlive > project file in the Media Bin ? Or did you do a copy / paste from one > project to another ? I dragged and dropped it into the main sequence, then I moved it to another one. The .kdenlive is imported in full and uses clips some of the same source files as my main project (the source file is corrupted in all sequences in the main project). I don't know how to explain the project bin, so I'll just add an attachment as "Weird project bin". All the clips of that _____ to MK.mp4 file have been replaced with that clip at the top. The other ones are just useless and are all different speeds of the same clip. This makes sense on paper since the source .kdenlive has the same clip tens of times with different speeds, crops, etc. The only one that's actually used in the project is a ~900% speed version of the source clip which is used in a sequence in the imported .kdenlive. It has no audio, which is reflected when trying to add this weird clip to the project, but not reflected in the clips that got replaced with this weird one as they all have audio and the same speed. That sequence was copied about 8 times in succession. My guess is that importing the .kdenlive causes all clips to be pasted into the new project in a "Pasted clips" folder and that causes some conflict with the source files that already exist. The clips in the timeline seem to be pulling data from the original clip while thinking they are this weird phantom clip. I should note the rendering seems to be unaffected and so does playback in the editor. I will try to recreate this in new .kdenlive files.
(In reply to Jean-Baptiste Mardelle from comment #1) > Sorry for this bad experience. It would be interesting to have your > .kdenlive project file to debug this issue. Can I email you the .kdenlives privately? I'm not comfortable posting them in public. I'm trying to remove as much unnecessary info for privacy and streamlining the debugging. I cannot provide source clips as they are multiple gigabytes.
(In reply to washout_cultural220 from comment #4) > Can I email you the .kdenlives privately? I'm not comfortable posting them > in public. I'm trying to remove as much unnecessary info for privacy and > streamlining the debugging. > > I cannot provide source clips as they are multiple gigabytes. Success! I have extremely stripped down .kdenlives that have the same issue. The only issue is that they seem to hard refer to the source clip's location. You probably need to recreate my folder path on Windows. This would be much easier if it was simple to obtain logs on Windows. It doesn't seem to be an issue with the source clip itself. If you'll allow me to contact you privately, I will send over the kdenlives and a bit more information.
Yes, please send me the files by email, I will only use it for debugging and won't share it. I don't need the source clips, the xml project file should be enough, thanks! What surprises me is that the "Pasted clips" folder usually appears when you do a copy/paste of a sequence clip between 2 Kdenlive instances, not when just adding a .kdenlive project file to the media Bin...
Git commit 99f5c10401c1b1b250923027153fee00c82ef06c by Jean-Baptiste Mardelle. Committed on 04/12/2025 at 22:51. Pushed by mardelle into branch 'release/25.12'. Fix invalid clips and project corruption on pasting sequence or project files with speed change M +8 -0 src/bin/projectclip.cpp M +3 -0 src/bin/projectclip.h M +2 -2 src/bin/projectfolder.cpp M +1 -1 src/bin/projectfolder.h M +34 -3 src/bin/projectitemmodel.cpp M +3 -1 src/bin/projectitemmodel.h M +47 -12 src/timeline2/model/timelinefunctions.cpp https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/commit/99f5c10401c1b1b250923027153fee00c82ef06c
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