KDENLIVE_RENDER(1)

✨ KDENLIVE_RENDER(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to kdenlive_render — the render program for Kdenlive, and yes, that's literally the whole vibe of the NAME section. it renders. for Kdenlive. that's it, that's the job 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

kdenlive_render [-erase] [in=pos] [out=pos] [render] [profile]
[rendermodule] [player] [src] [dest] [[arg1] [arg2] ...]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so. this is the render program for Kdenlive, and its whole thing is that it renders a kdenlive project detached from Kdenlive itself, while still giving you feedback through kuiserver. it's giving "I work behind the scenes so the main app doesn't have to" ✨

🫶 real talk though: this program is not meant to be called directly by users. it gets called from Kdenlive when a rendering process is started. so like… don't just vibe-check it from your terminal and expect a good time, bestie. it's the backstage crew, not the main character. 😭

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Options:

• -erase — if this one's present, the src file gets erased after rendering. poof. gone. 🫧
• in=pos — start rendering at frame pos. like, begin here, diva. 🎬
• out=pos — end rendering at frame pos. wrap it up, we're done here. 🎬
• render — the path to the MLT melt render program. that's your rendering engine right there. 🔥
• profile — the MLT video profile. the whole aesthetic spec, if you will. 🌈
• rendermodule — the MLT consumer used for rendering, and usually it's avformat. iykyk. ⭐
• player — path to the video player to play when rendering is over. use '-' to disable playing, if you'd rather not have the little victory screening. 🙈
• src — source file, which is usually an MLT playlist. 📼
• dest — destination file. where it all lands. 💖
• args — space separated libavformat arguments. sprinkle them in, no cap. ✨

🦋 ENVIRONMENT 🦋

• KDENLIVE_RENDER_LOG — if $KDENLIVE_RENDER_LOG is set, a log gets written to /tmp/kdenlive_render.log.XXXXXXXX, and it contains info about the result of calling melt, ffmpeg, etc. basically it's your debugging bestie when something's acting up. 💀🔍

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

please see the homepage at http://www.kdenlive.org/ — go say hi to the mothership 👑

👑 AUTHORS 👑

• Jean-Baptiste Mardelle <jb@kdenlive.org>
• Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>

and that's the whole page, bestie — courtesy of the K Desktop Environment, dated Dec 2008, still serving looks to this very day 💅✨ periodt.