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.TH KDENLIVE 1 "Nov 2008" "K Desktop Environment" "An open source video editor."
.SH NAME
kdenlive \- An open source non\-linear video editor.
.SH SYNOPSIS
kdenlive [Qt\-options] [KDE\-options] [options] [file]
.SH DESCRIPTION
Kdenlive is an open source non\-linear video editor which supports a
large number of formats for editing, including DV, AVCHD (experimental support) and HDV. Kdenlive relies on several other open source projects, such as FFmpeg and MLT video framework.
.SH OPTIONS
.SS
.SS Arguments:
.TP
.B file
Document to open
.SS Options:
.TP
.B  \-\-mlt\-path  <path>
Set the path for MLT environnement
.SS
.SS Generic options:
.TP
.B  \-\-help
Show help about options
.TP
.B  \-\-help\-qt
Show Qt specific options
.TP
.B  \-\-help\-kde
Show KDE specific options
.TP
.B  \-\-help\-all
Show all options
.TP
.B  \-\-author
Show author information
.TP
.B \-v,  \-\-version
Show version information
.TP
.B  \-\-license
Show license information
.TP
.B  \-\-
End of options
.SS
.SS KDE options:
.TP
.B  \-\-caption  <caption>
Use 'caption' as name in the titlebar
.TP
.B  \-\-icon  <icon>
Use 'icon' as the application icon
.TP
.B  \-\-config  <filename>
Use alternative configuration file
.TP
.B  \-\-nocrashhandler
Disable crash handler, to get core dumps
.TP
.B  \-\-waitforwm
Waits for a WM_NET compatible windowmanager
.TP
.B  \-\-style  <style>
sets the application GUI style
.TP
.B  \-\-geometry  <geometry>
sets the client geometry of the main widget \- see man X for the argument format
.SS
.SS Qt options:
.TP
.B  \-\-display  <displayname>
Use the X\-server display 'displayname'
.TP
.B  \-\-session  <sessionId>
Restore the application for the given 'sessionId'
.TP
.B  \-\-cmap
Causes the application to install a private color
map on an 8\-bit display
.TP
.B  \-\-ncols  <count>
Limits the number of colors allocated in the color
cube on an 8\-bit display, if the application is
using the QApplication::ManyColor color
specification
.TP
.B  \-\-nograb
tells Qt to never grab the mouse or the keyboard
.TP
.B  \-\-dograb
running under a debugger can cause an implicit
\-nograb, use \-dograb to override
.TP
.B  \-\-sync
switches to synchronous mode for debugging
.TP
.B \-\-fn,  \-\-font  <fontname>
defines the application font
.TP
.B \-\-bg,  \-\-background  <color>
sets the default background color and an
application palette (light and dark shades are
calculated)
.TP
.B \-\-fg,  \-\-foreground  <color>
sets the default foreground color
.TP
.B \-\-btn,  \-\-button  <color>
sets the default button color
.TP
.B  \-\-name  <name>
sets the application name
.TP
.B  \-\-title  <title>
sets the application title (caption)
.TP
.B  \-\-visual  TrueColor
forces the application to use a TrueColor visual on
an 8\-bit display
.TP
.B  \-\-inputstyle  <inputstyle>
sets XIM (X Input Method) input style. Possible
values are onthespot, overthespot, offthespot and
root
.TP
.B  \-\-im  <XIM server>
set XIM server
.TP
.B  \-\-noxim
disable XIM
.TP
.B  \-\-reverse
mirrors the whole layout of widgets
.TP
.B  \-\-stylesheet
<file.qss>   applies the Qt stylesheet to the application widgets
.SS

.SH ENVIRONMENT
.TP
.B KDENLIVE_RENDER_LOG
If
.RB $ KDENLIVE_RENDER_LOG 
is set, a log will be written to /tmp/kdenlive_render.log.XXXXXXXX, that contains information about
the result of calling melt, ffmpeg, etc. This can be used for debugging.

.SH SEE ALSO
.BR kdenlive_render (1).
Please see the homepage at
.BR http://www.kdenlive.org/
.br
.SH AUTHORS
.nf
Jean\-Baptiste Mardelle <jb@kdenlive.org>
.br
Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>
.br