kdenlive rabbithole
Monday, 8 January 2024 11:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miriam_eI've just emerged from a several hours long trip down an interesting rabbithole.
I'm getting close to deaf -- so much so that I can no longer watch videos without subtitles. Unfortunately, about a year ago one of my favorite YouTubers released a 2-hour video without subtitles, and for some reason blocked YouTube from making automated subtitles.
Last night I watched a video by another of my favorite YouTubers that demonstrated that the video editing program "kdenlive" can now automatically subtitle a video from its soundtrack. This was exciting!
This morning I installed kedlive on my computer... but it doesn't have any subtitling functions. The version for my computer is pretty old, created in 2017. So I went online to the kdenlive website and downloaded the latest version and tried it.
https://kdenlive.org
I won't go into why, but suffice to say it doesn't work on my machine. I ended up downloading 6 older versions and none worked on my computer. There are many more older versions, but I didn't bother. The first version to introduce speech-to-text subtitling was one of those I tried (version 22.04).
This was way more complicated than my description indicates. In the end, I'm convinced I need a better computer and a newer Linux.
I'm getting close to deaf -- so much so that I can no longer watch videos without subtitles. Unfortunately, about a year ago one of my favorite YouTubers released a 2-hour video without subtitles, and for some reason blocked YouTube from making automated subtitles.
Last night I watched a video by another of my favorite YouTubers that demonstrated that the video editing program "kdenlive" can now automatically subtitle a video from its soundtrack. This was exciting!
This morning I installed kedlive on my computer... but it doesn't have any subtitling functions. The version for my computer is pretty old, created in 2017. So I went online to the kdenlive website and downloaded the latest version and tried it.
https://kdenlive.org
I won't go into why, but suffice to say it doesn't work on my machine. I ended up downloading 6 older versions and none worked on my computer. There are many more older versions, but I didn't bother. The first version to introduce speech-to-text subtitling was one of those I tried (version 22.04).
This was way more complicated than my description indicates. In the end, I'm convinced I need a better computer and a newer Linux.