Kdenlive 26.04.2

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

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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 26.04.2 changelog:

Remove not needed actions from render info, fix rough size calculation for rendering.
Fix clip sometimes not inserted in timeline when moving vertically in bin drag.
Fix transcoding from clip properties.
Cleanup render profile audio quality.
Use percent based value for audio quality, and adjust the range accordingly per codec. Fixes bug #520750
Enforce even numbers for render width/height. Fixes bug #520737
Fix nightly flatpak - disable rnnoise until implemented.
Fix missing initialization.
Edit mediacapture.cpp.
Fix document unnecessarily marked as modified on opening, triggering a backup request.
Fix incorrect detection of missing and remote clips causing unwanted backups. Fixes issue #2194
Fix tests.
Fix tmp files copied to wrong location when setting project folder. Fixes bug #467740
Fix color clips not selected on creation.
Use QFileInfo instead of QUrl/QDir to try fixing Windows shared drives. Fixes bug #451413
Fix timeline preview incorrectly invalidated when a track with effect duration changed. Fixes bug #514541
Fix missing var.
Display paths in native format in render widget. Fixes bug #520428
Simple splash: fix pressing return always triggered the same button.
Minor update to simple splash.
Fix unwanted clips added to timeline and cleanup. Fixes issue #2190
Minor layout improvements to welcome screen, add Quit and Open shortcuts.
Fix broken welcome dialog layout in tiling compositors.
(craft) Limit the number of CPU cores used during a Windows build with mingw as some .cpp files are memory intensive to build.
(kde-ci) Limit the number of CPU cores used during a build as some .cpp files are memory intensive to build.
(kde-ci) Cleanup old entries.
Another fix for animation crash.
Fix uninitialized function - crash on create animation.
Another attempt to fix MacOS permissions.
MacOS: fix bundle release version.
Fix MacOS plist path.
Fix MacOS build.
Explicitely link against Qt::Core.