Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It works on GNU/Linux, Windows and BSD. Through the MLT framework, Kdenlive integrates many plugin effects for video and sound processing or creation. Furthermore Kdenlive brings a powerful titling tool, a DVD authoring (menus) solution, and can then be used as a complete studio for video creation.
Kdenlive supports all of the formats supported by FFmpeg or libav (such as QuickTime, AVI, WMV, MPEG, and Flash Video, among others), and also supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios for both PAL, NTSC and various HD standards, including HDV and AVCHD. Video can also be exported to DV devices, or written to a DVD with chapters and a simple menu.
Video editing features:
- Multi-track editing with a timeline and supports an unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
- A built-in title editor and tools to create, move, crop and delete video clips, audio clips, text clips and image clips.
- Ability to add custom effects and transitions.
- A wide range of effects and transitions. Audio signal processing capabilities include normalization, phase and pitch shifting, limiting, volume adjustment, reverb and equalization filters as well as others. Visual effects include options for masking, blue-screen, distortions, rotations, colour tools, blurring, obscuring and others.
- Configurable keyboard shortcuts and interface layouts.
- Rendering is done using a separate non-blocking process so it can be stopped, paused and restarted.
- Kdenlive also provides a script called the Kdenlive Builder Wizard (KBW) that compiles the latest developer version of the software and its main dependencies from source, to allow users to try to test new features and report problems on the bug tracker.
- Project files are stored in XML format.
- An archiving feature allows exporting a project among all assets into a single folder or compressed archive.
- Built-in audio mixer
Kdenlive 23.08.2 changelog:
- Fix Fit Zoom. Fixes bug #472754.
- Fix cannot move clip to 0 in some cases.
- Fix erratic behavior when requesting to add same track transitions (mixes) to several clips.
- Redirect Settings > Configure Kdenlive > Help to the online documentation.
- Fix multiple audio streams broken by MLT’s new astream property. Fixes bug #474895.
- Fix dialogs not correctly deleted, e.g. add track dialog, causing crash on exit.
- Ensure clips with audio (for exemple playlists) don’t block audio when inserted on video track.
- Ensure translations cannot mess with file extensions.
- Fix another case blocking separate track move.
- Fix grabbed clips cannot be moved on upper track in some cases.
- Fix move clip part of a group on another track not always working.
- Fix playlist count not correctly updated, allowing to delete last sequence. Fixes bug #474988.
- Fix motion-tracker Nano file name and links to the documentation.
- Stop installing kdenliveui.rc also as separate file, next to Qt resource.
- Fix tests and possible corruption in recent mix fix.
- Correctly highlight newly dropped files in library.
- Fix threading issue crashing in resource widget.
- Fix freeze on adding mix.
- Make Lift work as expected by most users.Fixes bug #447948. Fixes bug #436762.
- Fix load task discarding kdenlive settings (caused timeline clips to miss the “proxy” icon.
- Fix multiple issues with Lift/Gamma/Gain undo.Fixes bug #472865. Fixes bug #462406.
- Fix freeze / crash on project opening.
- Optimize RAM usage by not storing producers on which we did a get_frame operation.
- Fix guide multi-export adding an extra dot to the filename.
- Correctly update effect stack when switching timeline tab.
Download: Kdenlive 23.08.2 | 98.3 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable | 97.7 MB
Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems | Changelog