Menu Close

How to fix Motion Tracker effect menu not appearing in Kdenlive on Arch Linux

I was trying to blur some part of my video with motion tracking added, but somehow there is no Motion Tracker in the list of Effects.

How to fix Motion Tracker effect menu not appearing in Kdenlive on Arch Linux 1

Solution

Before you read further, make sure you are using latest version. 22.04.2-1 is the latest version as I am typing.

There are 2 ways to do this.

  • AppImage
  • Install additional package in your Arch

The first one is pretty straight forward. Just download the AppImage version and run it. Since I installed Kdenlive using pacman, I would be using the second solution, install additional package which is opencv.

How to fix Motion Tracker effect menu not appearing in Kdenlive on Arch Linux 2
opencv as an optional dependencies

As you can see, opencv is for motion tracking feature. But for some reason, it is marked as optional.

Just install opencv

$ sudo pacman -Sy opencv

Restart Kdenlive, and you are done.

5 1 vote
Article Rating
Subscribe
Notify of
guest
0 Comments
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
0
Would love your thoughts, please comment.x
()
x