> Environment paths to your ffmpeg and other various sub-programs Kdenlive uses including audio and image editor.Īs you can see in the image above, Kdenlive doesn't know where to look for the critical ffmpeg along with several other dependencies. Then you can check the Settings > Configure. On first install you should run the Settings > Config Wizard as a precaution that your GPU is recognized and all is well. Select the red button and then.nothing happens? The fix is actually pretty easy.

We moved ours to the top left to suit our creation flow. It may appear towards the right side near the preview area if you haven't already customized your layout.

You can pull it up easily under the main menu View column and check the display box and the sub-menu will appear with a nice big red record button. To add further frustration the new user will find no images on the page specific to screen grab either (at least as of Dec 2020). Many tutorials at YouTube talk and display the old interface of Kdenlive and even if you look through the official documentation you'll get images of the old interface. Since Kdenlive has the screen grab feature incorporated directly and has a quasi-simple UI its becoming our perfect graduation present (sorry OpenShot but thanks for all the fish). We've used OBS Studio for recording the desktop/applications in the past but having to edit them in Handbrake and then insert into our standard video creator tool as a clip is an annoying multi-step process. The former served us quite well for about 9 months but the complexity of our video renders now require something beefier. We recently reached the maximum memory/heat/system shutdown bug(s) with OpenShot editor and due to a very tight turnaround deadline, we started to look at the next step up in open-source video editing. Can't record your desktop in Kdenlive v19+? You might need to check your configuration paths!

Kdenlive custom ffmpeg options