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MLT2FCP
Quick and dirty MLT (Kdenlive / Shotcut, etc) to FCPXML (Final Cut Pro, Davinci Resolve) converter.
Copyright (C) Gabriel Gambetta 2019.
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Introduction
This is a quick and dirty converter from MLT video project files (in particular, the Kdenlive 19+ dialect, but might work with others) to Final Cut Pro XML (in particular, one that Davinci Resolve can import).
It's buggy and alpha; I stopped fixing bugs and adding features when my particular itch was scratched. It did successfully convert a 45 minute timeline with O(1000) entries pretty accurately (with a total accumulated error of less than a second)
Known issues
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There's some off-by-one error somewhere, I believe caused by rounding times in milliseconds to frames. As a result, audio and video clips might be shifted by a frame, or be a frame too long.
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Nested clips (a .kdenlive clip in the timeline) are supported, but don't work very well; sometimes Resolve imports the result correctly, sometimes it doesn't.
- Processing nested clips is disabled by default. As a result, the container timeline will contain references to a missing .kdenlive file. These can be converted independently, imported as timelines into Resolve, and the missing clip replaced with the imported timeline.