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Monitor Menu

The monitor menu contains controls for viewing and navigating through the clips in your project for the purpose of making edits and seeing the effects of your changes. Depending on which monitor window you have selected at the time, the controls will affect either the currently selected clip in the Project Bin (Clip Monitor) or the playhead in the Timeline (Project Monitor).

With the exception of the Deinterlacer and Interpolation items, it is much more practical to perform the actions on this menu using the associated keyboard shortcuts or the buttons at the bottom of the monitor windows.

  • Switch Monitor : Toggles between clip monitor and project monitor. when the project monitor is in focus the timeline is focus as well. Keyboard Shortcut T

  • Focus Timecode : Focus to the timecode on the active monitor so you can change the timecode to the place you want to jump to. Keyboard shortcut =

  • Play : Start playing the monitor in focus with shortcut space.

  • Play Zone : Plays from in-point to the out-point of a zone. Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + space

  • Play Zone From Cursor : Plays from the playhead to the out-point of a zone.

  • Loop Zone : Plays from in-point to the out-point of a zone in a loop. Keyboard Shortcut Ctrl + shift + space

  • Loop Selected Clip : This works in the timeline only. Plays from the first to the last selected clip in the timeline in a loop.

Go To​

This menu item opens a flyout with actions for jumping to dedicated points in the timeline:

Seek​

This menu item opens a flyout with following seeking possibilities:

  • Set Zone In : This set the point where a zone starts. Shortcut I

  • Set Zone Out : This set the point where a zone ends. Shortcut O

  • Insert Zone in Project Bin : When you have created a zone you can put the zone with this command into the project bin as a sub-clip of the original clip. This is useful when you have a long clip and you want only some parts of it. Shortcut Ctrl + I. Another possibility is to use Markers With Range.

  • Switch Monitor Fullscreen : Switch the monitor to full screen when pressing F11 or double-clicking in the monitor. You can set the target monitor via Menu ‣ Settings ‣ Configure Kdenlive ‣ Playback ‣ Monitor for fullscreen output. The mouse cursor is automatically hidden after two seconds (if the mouse hasn’t been moved) and automatically be shown again when the user moves the mouse.

If you have more than 1 monitor you can enable Menu ‣ Settings ‣ Configure Kdenlive ‣ Playback ‣ Mirror monitor on fullscreen and a basic real mirror is shown on fullscreen (it doesn’t show the final output in case of multi-cam view yet). This keeps the monitor as it is but shows a duplicate full screen playback on another monitor without seekbar at the bottom. This is useful to show another person or audience the same view on a secondary screen, such as a TV, for feedback, or to view footage on a larger, more color-accurate display.

  • Multitrack View : Multitrack view is described in detail here.

  • Zoom In Monitor : Zooms in.

  • Zoom Out Monitor : Zooms out.

  • Current Monitor Overlay : Opens a fly-out for the various available monitor overlays. More details see in Clip Monitor or Project Monitor.

  • Preview Resolution : Preview resolution is described in detail here.

  • Monitor Config : Opens a fly-out for the various available monitor configurations. More details see in Clip Monitor or Project Monitor.

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