Archiving

The Archiving feature (Project ‣ Archive Project, see Project Menu) in Kdenlive allows you to copy all files required by the project (images, video clips, project files,…) to a folder, and alternatively to compress the whole into a tar.gz or a zip file.

Archiving changes the project file to update the path of video clips to the archived versions.

This can be useful if you finished working on a project and want to keep a copy of it, or if you want to move a project from one computer to another.

The resulting tar.gz or zip file can be opened directly in Kdenlive with File ‣ Open, then switch file ending to Archived Project.

Kdenlive will uncompress it to a location you specify before opening it.

If you have archived the project with the option Archive only timeline clips, Kdenlive ask what it should do with the not archived clips.