Kdenlive 26.04.1

Kdenlive offers pro-grade video editing with unlimited tracks, advanced effects, titling, DVD authoring, and wide format support via FFmpeg.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · May 9, 2026 08:52 EDT with 0 comments

Kdenlive

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 26.04.1 changelog:

Try to fix MacOS app permissions.
Fix minimum MacOS supported version in Info.plist.
Ensure we don't try to access uninitialized media recorder.
Ensure we don't try to access audio device before permission confirmed.
Warn user on invalid preset on document open.
Fix Clip Monitor position stuck when switch clip. Fixes issue #2177
Fix otiotest.
Fix nonstop message asking to confirm sequence resize. Fixes bug #518990
MacOS: explicitly request mic permission. See bug #509281
Fix tab order in create color clip dialog.
Fix plist typo.
Update Mac plist. See bug #509281
Fix dropping sequence without audio in timeline. Fixes bug #519583
Fix clip monitor playhead remains the same when switching clips. See issue #2177
Fix welcome screen recent profile opening incorrect project profile.
Fix archiving of title files with images. See bug #518992
Fix crash cutting subtitle on layer > 0. Fixes bug #519505
Switch transition preview to gif format since most of our binaries don't encode webp.
Fix transition preview generation.
Fix crash switching multiple times between icon and list view in transitions list.
Fix trying to access uninitialized core profile on document open.
Fix render test suite crash on unknown render profile.
Sanitize proxy parameters.
Limit the number of supported layers in subtitles.
Always adjust composition duration on drop if there are clips above and below.
Fix missing Q_EMIT keyword.
Only show transition preview action if python is found.
Fix freeze canceling project recovery.
Fix playlist with different profile always have audio + video. Fixes bug #497943
Fix proxying playlist clip always adds audio. See bug #497943
MacOS: fix monitor offset with transform on zoom.
Bin icon mode: show folder indicator when item has zones, double click a sequence will expand/colapse it as well as open the sequence in timeline. Fixes bug #518857
Ensure double click opens sequence even when it has subclips. Fixes bug #518857
Cleanup audio level code, fix possible crash when adding first clip.
Transitions preview: script should only generate previews for custom lumas for now.
Don't show incorrect transition preview.
Fix crash closing app through welcome screen close button.