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 25.08.1 changelog:
- Remove deprecated reference to frei0r.scal0tilt.
- Fix playlist clips (or kdenlive projects) not reloading when modified.
- Fix render path reset when creating a new sequence in the project.
- Fix Transform effect when current clip is not below play head / timeline cursor. Fixes bug #508818
- Fix crash on bin clip deletion.
- Fix clip monitor image stays visible after closing a project.
- Fix crash on project open.
- Curve editors can use the full width.
- Fix crash trying to apply an effect on a subclip.
- Fix macOS project files icon.
- Fix recent regression in render with multiple audio files.
- Fix create sequence from selection sometimes not working. Fixes bug #508576
- Fix crash on failed sequence creation.
- Fix incorrect mime icon names.
- Fix 2 pass rendering.
- Try to fix MacOS icon.
- Snapcraft: Fix protobuf crash.
- Fix peak indicators immediately resetting when no audio is coming in.
- Fix ugly icons in Clip Properties panel.
- Don"t attempt to update geometry scene when its not actually loaded.
- Fix crash starting bin clip task in multiple bin project.
- Fix monitor playing when clicking in the zoombar area.
- Monitor transform: Fix changing into moving state when doing keyframe selection.
- Monitor transform: Fix keyframe selection via center points when rotated.
- Fix crash clicking on effects timeline on an empty project.
- Don"t install 1024px icon breaking Flatpak.
- Ignore old project file black producer on opening.
- Add higher res icons.
- Fix MacOS icon is low resolution.
- [Flatpak nightly] Disable MLT movit module.
- Fix freeze adding an unsupported file to project bin.
- Fix corrupted/missing font in effect stack and stabilize dialog.
Download: Kdenlive 25.08.1 | 119.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Standalone Executable
Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems