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 24.08.1 changelog:
- Kdenlive 24.08.1 fixes recent playback and render regressions while fixing a wide range of bugs.
- Fix reassigning timecode to project clip.
- Fix possible crash on undo/redo single selection move.
- Fix dragging transitions to a clip cut to create a mix.
- Fix multiple selection broken.
- Fix clip offset not appearing on selection in timeline.
- Ensure bin clips with effects disabled keep their effects disabled when added to a new sequence.
- Fix keyframe at last frame prevents resizing clip on high zoom.
- Fix effects/compositions list size.
- Fix compositions cannot be easily selected in timeline.
- Replace : and ? chars in guides names for rendering.
- Don’t trigger timeline scroll when mouse exits timeline on a clip drag, it caused incorrect droppings and ghost clips.
- Fix scolling timeline with rubberband or when dragging from file manager can move last selected clip in timeline.
- Fix adding marker from project notes always adds it at 00:00.
- Fix blurry widgets on high DPI displays.
- Fix keyframe param not correctly enabled on first keyframe click.
- Fix curveeditor crash on empty track.
- Ensure rendering with separate file for each audio track keeps the correct audio tag in the file name.
- Fix render project folder sometimes lost, add proper enums instead of unreadable ints.
- Fix MLT lumas not correctly recognized by archive feature.
- Fix configure toolbars messing UI layout.
- Effects List: ensure deprecated category is always listed last.
- Fix tabulations in Titler (requires latest MLT git).
- Titler: ensure only plain text can be pasted, prepare support for tabulations (needs MLT patch).
- Don’t accept empty whisper device.
- Fix ffmpeg path for Whisper on Mac.
- Fix archive doesn’t save the video assets when run multiple times.
- Fix document notes timecode links may be broken after project reload.
- Fix broken qml font on AppImage.
- Remove incorrect taskmanager unlock.
Download: Kdenlive 24.08.1 | 112.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable
Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems