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 24.02.2 changelog:
- Fix blurry folder icon with some project profiles.
- Fix timeline not following playhead.
- When copy/paste effects from a group, only paste effects for the active clip. Fixes bug #421667.
- Optimize group move (don’t update clip position twice).
- Fix nvidia encoding.
- Multiple improvements for timeline keyboard grab (don’t test each frame on a move, scroll timeline accordingly, don’t lose focus on app switch).
- Update to last: only sync shortcuts if there was a change.
- Fix: editing toolbar config discards newly set keyboard shortcuts.
- Increase Qt6 limit for max image size. See bug #484752.
- Fix: Ensure secondary bins have a title bar when needed and that the dock widgets list is always correctly sorted.
- Don’t perform bin block twice on main bin.
- Fix: lag moving clips from one bin to another and unneeded monitor clip reload.
- Fix crash and color theme broken on Windows when opening a project by double click.
- Try to fix empty monitor when switching to/from fullscreen on Mac.
- Fix mem leak on save.
- Add more locks around xml producer, fix autosave triggered on project open.
- Mediabrowser: ensure thumbnails are generated after changing the view.
- Enable video thumbnails in media browser for Win/Mac.
- Fix: don’t propose existing name for new sequence. Fixes bug #472753.
- Fix crash in sequence clip thumbnails. See bug #483836.
- Ensure we never reset the locale while an MLT XML Consumer is running (it caused data corruption). See bug #483777.
- Add icon data to shared-mime-info.
- Fix: favorite effects menu not refreshed when a new effect is set as favorite.
- Fix: Rotoscoping not allowing to add points close to bottom of the screen. See bug #484009.
- Fix: Rotoscoping – allow closing shape with Return key, don’t discard initial shape when drawing it and seeking in timeline. See bug #484009.
- Fix: cannot translate the “P” for Proxy in timeline. Fixes bug #471850.
- Fix white background and blank monitor on Windows after going back from fullscreen. Fixes bug #484081.
- Fix wrong KDEInstallDirs on Windows.
- Fix recent not allowing to open files.
- Don’t crash opening aa corrupted project file with no tracks.
- Fix: cannot move compositions properly in timeline with Qt6. Fixes bug #484062.
- Proxy clip: highlight proxy in file manager when opening the folder.
Download: Kdenlive 24.02.2 | 111.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable | 101.0 MB
Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems | Changelog