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 23.08.3 changelog:
- Fix timeremap.
- Fix replace clip keeping audio index from previous clip, sometimes breaking audio.
- Create sequence from selection: ensure we have enough audio tracks for AV groups.
- Fix timeline duration incorrect after create sequence from timeline selection.
- Fix project duration not updating when moving the last clip of a track to another non last position.
- Don’t lose subtitle styling when switching to another sequence. Fixes bug #476544.
- Fix crash dropping url to Library.
- When dropping multiple files in project bin, improve import speed by not checking if every file is on a remote drive.
- Fix titler shadow incorrectly pasted on selection. Fixes bug #476393.
- Fix pasted effects not adjusted to track length.
- Fix timeline preview ignored in temporary data dialog. Fixes bug #475980.
- Speech to text: fix whisper install aborting after 30secs.
- Don’t try to generate proxy clips for audio with clipart.
- Clip loading: switch to Mlt::Producer probe() instead of fetching frame.
- Multiple fixes for time remap losing keyframes.
- Add png with alpha render profile.
- Fix Mix not correctly deleted on group track move.
- Fix rendering with alpha.
- Rotoscoping: don’t auto add a second kfr at cursor pos when creating the initial shape, don’t auto add keyframes until there are 2 keyframes created.
- Fix keyframe param not correctly enabled when selecting a clip.
- Fix smooth keyframe path sometimes incorrectly drawn on monitor.
- Properly adjust timeline clips on sequence resize.
- Remove unused debug stuff.
- Fix project duration not correctly updated on hide / show track.
- Fix resize clip with mix test.
- Fix resize clip start to frame 0 of timeline not correctly working in some zoom levels.
Download: Kdenlive 23.08.3 | 101.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable | 101.0 MB
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