[FM Discuss] issues with Kdenlive manual images

Tue Feb 6 01:53:48 PST 2018

Hey Matt, sounds likea great project, don't hesitate to ask questions!

Kind regards

Anna

On 6 Feb 2018 08:00, "Mick Chesterman" <M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Hi there Matt,
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> We were hit by spam a while back so I locked down that permission.
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> I’ve opened it up now but we should keep an eye on new books here -
> http://write.flossmanuals.net/list-books/
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> Sounds good about the focus shift. We were commissioned by v4c.org to do
> that book on Kdenlive hence the social justice focus.
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> It was me and Anna Morris that wrote the book so feel free to ask us
> questions about the process.
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> Thanks
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> Mick
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> *From:* Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net] *On
> Behalf Of *M R
> *Sent:* 06 February 2018 01:05
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] issues with Kdenlive manual images
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> Mick:
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> Hey, let's suppose I was interested in launching a new manual for
> ShotCut, modeled to some extent on the Kdenlive, although probably from a
> somewhat different use-case angle than social activism just bc I haven't
> done a lot of activist video work.  I actually researched and evaluated a
> number of open-source video editors, including Kdenlive, as well as
> numerous 'free' versions of non-free industrial software, and I decided
> personally that ShotCut was the way to go.
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> The thing is, I don't seem to have the "Create New Book" button in my
> dashboard, where the Booktype manual suggests it should be (or anywhere
> else I can locate).  Is this a role/permissions issue?  I can create a new
> Group, and I can Import a book, but I don't find the Create New Book button
> in either the main dashboard tab or the My Books tab.  What say you?  Do
> you need to create the book for me, or give me additional permissions?
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> thanks,
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> Matt
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> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net> on behalf of
> Mick Chesterman <M.Chesterman at mmu.ac.uk>
> *Sent:* Monday, February 5, 2018 1:18 AM
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* [FM Discuss] issues with Kdenlive manual images
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> Good spot there Matt,
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> I was going to suggest Kdenlive manual perhaps as a model for an open shot
> manual.
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> The images *are* missing in that manual.
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> I guess they need to be uploaded from here. Which is good to know as a way
> of rescuing manuals that were incompletely imported in to the new system.
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> http://archive.flossmanuals.net/_booki/how-to-use-video-editing-software/how-to-use-video-editing-software.epub
> <http://archive.flossmanuals.net/_booki/how-to-use-video-editing-software/how-to-use-video-editing-software.epub>*
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> I’ve tested this and if it’s done from the images and files section it is
> doable.
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> I’ve done 10 or so but there are a lot so if anyone wants to chip in just
> go for it and post back you progress here.
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> The process would be
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> ·         Grab epub from above,
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> ·         rename .zip, unzip it
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> ·         go to http://write.flossmanuals.net/kdenlive/_edit/
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> Booktype Sign In <http://write.flossmanuals.net/kdenlive/_edit/>
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> write.flossmanuals.net
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> Free Manuals for Freedom
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> ·         go to images and files tab
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> ·         upload image from the static directory (one by one!) to this
> book
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> ·         F5 – refresh to see the images appear.
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> Thanks all!
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> Mick
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> *From:* Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net
> <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net>] *On Behalf Of *M R
> *Sent:* 04 February 2018 22:17
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* [FM Discuss] Yay on Audacity re-launch, and issues with
> Kdenlive manual images
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> thanks Mick.  I can now see the published 2.x version at flossmanuals.net.
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> Perfectionist that I am, I did go in and make a few more wording changes
> to the Edit chapter (where it was entirely my own prose).  I have not
> re-published; I figure I'd let others tinker with their own contributed
> areas for a while longer and we can re-publish wherever.
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> Btw, I had been considering knocking out a new manual on ShutCut, an
> open-source video editor I've been using recently.  So I was exploring
> existing Floss books on video editing to determine if there was a real
> need.  The one manual I found that really focuses on a single video-editing
> tool uses Kdenlive, which is certainly a viable open-source alternative to
> ShotCut.  However, in looking thu the published Kdenlive manual, I notice
> that every image link seems to be broken!  Seriously, every single
> screenshot or other image.  When you go into edit mode, the images don't
> appear at all; but in published mode they display as missing images.  What
> might have caused this?  Did some process nuke or move the entire image
> library? (it appears to be totally empty).  I haven't found this issue with
> any other manuals I've reviewed yet, but I certainly haven't reviewed them
> all and am not really undertaking to at the moment.  Nor do I  really have
> time to spin up on Kdenlive such that I could replace all the missing
> images (even assuming I could figure out how to well enough from context).
> If I was going to put that kind of effort in, I'd do it with Shotcut.
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> But I thought maybe you'd be aware of some simple behind-the-scenes
> operation that would restore all of the Kdenlive image files to their
> correct location.
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> Matt
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> *From:* Discuss <discuss-bounces at lists.flossmanuals.net> on behalf of
> mick at flossmanuals.net <mick at flossmanuals.net>
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 4, 2018 3:40 AM
> *To:* discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> *Subject:* Re: [FM Discuss] updated section on recording configuration
> using Audacity in Mac OS X
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> Great,
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> So the changes are is published to flossmanuals.net
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> The relevant steps to do it are here.
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> https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/activity
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> <https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/activity>
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> Activity · flossmanuals / fm_en_splash
> <https://gitlab.com/flossmanuals/fm_en_splash/activity>
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> gitlab.com
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> FLOSS Manuals EN Splash A splash page for FLOSS Manuals to replace current
> defunct publisher
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> I have done a custom pdf generation using the default settings on the
> server.
> I'm pretty sure this can look a lot better but I don't have capacity to
> work on this so hoping that others in the community can work together on
> this one.
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> Thanks
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> On 03/02/18 04:27, M R wrote:
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> thanks a lot, Rosalind -- I suspected that was the case.
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> So Mick, I think we might be clear to publish now, whenever you want to
> pull the trigger.
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> best,
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> Matt
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