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 23.08.5 changelog:
- Fix undocked widgets don’t have a title bar to allow moving / re-docking.
- Multi guides export: replace slash and backslash in section names to fix rendering.
- Fix sequence corruption on project load.
- Fix multiple archiving issues.
- Fix possible sequence corruption.
- Fix sequences folder id not correctly restored on project opening.
- Fix Luma issue.
- Fix subtitles not covering transparent zones.
- Group resize: don’t allow resizing a clip to length
- Fix crash cutting grouped overlapping subtitles. Don’t allow the cut anymore, add test.
- Fix clip monitor not updating when clicking in a bin column like date or description.
- Fix start playing at end of timeline.
- Fix save clip zone from timeline adding an extra frame.
- Fix clips with mix cannot be cut, add test.
- Fix project monitor loop clip.
- Fix monitor offset when zooming back to 1:1.
- Fix sequence effects lost.8.
- Improved fix for center crop issue.
- Fix center crop adjust not covering full image.
- Disable Movit until it’s stable (should have done that a long time ago).
- Fix cannot save list of project files.
- Fix editing title clip with a mix can mess up the track.
- Fix audio mixer cannot enter precise values with keyboard.
- Prevent, detect and possibly fix corrupted project files, fix feedback not displayed in project notes.
- Test project’s active timeline is not always the first sequence.
- Ensure secondary timelines are added to the project before being loaded.
- Ensure autosave is not triggered when project is still loading.
- Fix variable name shadowing.
- When switching timeline tab without timeline selection, don’t clear effect stack if it was showing a bin clip.
- Fix crash pressing del in empty effect stack.
- Ensure check for HW accel is also performed if some non-essential MLT module is missing.
- Fix tests.
- Fix closed sequences losing properties, add more tests.
- Don’t attempt to load timeline sequences more than once.
- Fix timeline groups lost after recent commit on project save.
- Ensure we always use the correct timeline uuid on some clip operations.
- Add animation: remember last used folder.
- Refresh effects list after downloading an effect.
- Fix audio or video only drag of subclips.
- Fix editing title clip duration breaks title (recent regression).
- Glaxnimate animations: use rawr format instead of Lottie by default.
- Fix timeline focus lost when dropping an effect on a clip.
- Fix dropping lots of clips in Bin can cause freeze on abort.
- Right click on a mix now shows a mix menu (allowing deletion).
- Don’t add mixes to disabled tracks.
- Allow adding a mix without selection.
- Remove line missing from merge commit.
- Fix proxied playlist clips (like stabilized clips) rendered as interlaced.
- Always keep all timeline models opened.
Download: Kdenlive 23.08.5 | 102.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable | 101.0 MB
Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems | Changelog