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 25.12.3 changelog:
- Fix dragging audio clips from clip monitor button.
- Fix Whisper plugin install on Python 3.14.
- When hiding a dockwidget with hidden title bar, ensure freed space is reused.
- Correctly handle shortcuts with Shift modifier when in fullscreen mode. Fixes bug #516326
- Fix possible crash un curve editor.
- Fix mix not invalidating preview on change.
- Shutdown after rendering: don"t shutdown after abort, show prompt before shutting down on KDE. Fixes bug #513510
- Kdenlive Settings: fix apply button disabled after changing audio rec device.
- Fix import of clips with multiple video streams.
- Fix small mem leak in Render Widget. See bug #514763
- Fix insertion of multistream clips.
- Fix timeline preview invalidates full track when adding clip. Fixes bug #514541
- Never raise the effect stack on item selection if Effect Stack is docked with Timeline. Fixes bug #514547
- Fix resize Item start in ripple mode. Fixes bug #516099
- Fix ripple moving playhead. Fixes bug #516098
- Moved avfilter.gradfun to Image Adjustment category.
- Backport avfilter_gradfun fix.
- Fix shortcut conflict with extract action. Fixes bug #516750
- Make cppcheck happy.
- Ensure the track audio levels are always checked after the other track effects. Fixes bug #441452
- Fix audio scrubbing when Pause on Seek is disabled. Fixes bug #509667
- Refactor disabling clip, fixes audio stream lost on disable/enable. Fixes bug #474139
- Ensure no audio frame stays in the queue when switching clip in Clip Monitor. See bug #433601
- Don"t scroll up on bin drag when entering timeline. Fixes bug #439323
- Fix incorrect audio tracks count when timeline preview is enabled, breaking copy-paste. Fixes bug #515124
- Fix missing variable in split screen overlay.
- Grouping menu items logically.
- Add Disable Timeline Effects function to timeline hamburger menu.
- Fix rotoscoping right click to close shape.
- Try to fix image position on MacOS in fixed size mode.
Download: Kdenlive 25.12.3 | 122.0 MB (Open Source)
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Links: Kdenlive Home page | Other Operating Systems