Time for another quick-and dirty how-to. This time we’re using kdenlive-multirender to cut our Kdenlive render times in half.
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#!/bin/bash
# kdenlive-multirender.sh | Multi-threaded video rendering for Kdenlive
# Version 0.0.1
# Created by unfa 2017-12-13
# Getting input
INPUT=$1 # The first passed argument has to be a Kdenlive render script (for example "Project_001.sh")
PARTS=$2 # The second passed parameter is the number of threads to use.
# processing the information
IN=$(grep -o " in=[0-9]* " "$INPUT" | cut -d= -f2 | xargs) # Get the first frame for the project
OUT=$(grep -o " out=[0-9]* " "$INPUT" | cut -d= -f2 | xargs) # Get the last frame for the project
PATHRAW=$(grep -o "TARGET_0=.*" "$INPUT") # Identify the target file path
PATHFILE=$(dirname "${PATHRAW}" | sed -e 's/TARGET_0="file:\/\///g' ) # Get the clean file path
TARGET=$(grep -o "TARGET_0=.*" "$INPUT" | rev | cut -d/ -f1 | rev | cut -d'"' -f1) # Get the output video file for this project
echo "IN=$IN OUT=$OUT" # verify we got it right
rm list.txt # clear the list.txt file
for i in $(seq -w 01 $PARTS); do # for each thread...
PART=$i
IN2=$(echo "(($OUT - $IN) / $PARTS ) * ($PART - 1)" | bc) # calculate the thread start frame
if [[ "$PART" == "$PARTS" ]]; then # if this is the last thread
OUT2=$OUT # use the global last frame for this thread (the last thread usually has to render a few frames more, compensating for division errors)
else # otherwise
OUT2=$(echo "(($OUT - $IN) / $PARTS ) * $PART -1" | bc) # calculate the last frame for this thread
fi
TB=$(echo $TARGET | cut -d. -f1) # slice out the basename of the output file
TE=$(echo $TARGET | cut -d. -f2) # slice out the filename extension
TARGET2="$TB-$i.$TE" # compose a filename for the thread output
echo "PARTS=$PARTS PART=$PART IN=$IN2 OUT=$OUT2" # print it out for verification
echo
sed -e "s/in=$IN/in=$IN2/" "$INPUT" | sed -e "s/out=$OUT/out=$OUT2/" | sed -e "s/$TARGET/$TARGET2/" > "$PART.sh" # replace the IN, OUT and TARGET information in the source Kdenlicve render script and write that to a new shell script
echo "file '$PATHFILE/$TARGET2'" >> list.txt # add a line to out concatenation list.txt file for ffmpeg to use later
bash "$PART.sh" & # run the newly created script in the background
echo
done
wait # wait until all rendering threads finish
echo "Concatenating files..."
ffmpeg -f concat -safe 0 -i list.txt -c copy "$TARGET" # merge the individual files into one
echo "All done!"Launch: Replace “6” with the number of threads you’re comfortable with.
./kdenlive-multirender.sh YOURGENERATEDSCRIPT.sh 6
