This usually happens because kdenlive is not smart enough to deal with multiple types of files, especially different frequency. If you take a 44.1khz audio track and then add a 48khz track, you will definitely get the pops and clicks. Use a tool like audacity or similar to do two things, flatten the audio tracks to mono and at least make sure both tracks have the same frequency. I recommend changing both to 44.1khz. After Idid this and reimported the trac........

kdenlive is VERY finicky especially if using an older or newer version it can cause crashes, menus not to work, features not to work, things not to work properly. A good example is that Icould NOT get automask to work, there would be no box to control it until I did this full reset. One caution is that your backup project files will be erased when doing this: How to Reset kdenlive entirely rm ~/.config/kdenlive-layoutsrc rm........

This happens if you are running a kdenlive script from the shell of a remote machine without using SSH "-X" forwarding and it will also cause any areas where you write text to be a white screen for that duration. melt FusionFestival.kdenlive No LADSPA plugins were found! Check your LADSPA_PATH environment variable. [producer_xml] failed to load transition "qtblend" [producer_xml] failed to load transition &q........

When using the .sh script the rendering doesn't work after an upgrade of related packages to kdenlive. kdenlive (kdenlive:amd64 (4:17.04.1+git201705191233~ubuntu16.04.1)) with affine or composite transitions was fine but is now broken during the time of transition it is just a white screen. The previous version was fine: kdenlive:amd64 (4:17.04.1+git201705191233~ubuntu16.04.1 But now I can't find it or install it:........

Solution: Aptitude is very smart and fixed the issues it was because of nvidia cuda and opencl and nothing else suggested or hinted this using apt sudo aptitude install wine The following NEW packages will be installed: ocl-icd-libopencl1{ab} ocl-icd-libopencl1:i386{ab} wine wine1.6 wine1.6-amd64{a} wine1.6-i386:i386{a} The following packages will be REMOVED:........