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Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. Our software is completely free, as defined by the GNU foundation. Using Kdenlive is investing in a community driven project, which aims to establish relationships between people in order to built the best video tools. Learn more about Kdenlive...

Introducing Color Scopes: The Histogram
By Granjow, 08/30/2010 - 23:10

With kdenlive 0.7.8 (planned release date: Sept 13) I added some color scopes, used for displaying color information. In this section I will give a brief overviews over scopes in general and explain the most basic scope, the histogram, in detail.

Color correction. This is a really important topic in video editing. It starts with simple stretching of the tonal range if the brightness is not ideal, goes on with white balance to ensure that white remains white and not blue, and finally ends with creating looks which make your video look unique. (Remember the blueish Minority Report? The contrasty The Departed?)

For color correction we basically need two things, Effects for changing the colors and Scopes for monitoring the changes. The first scope I'm showing now is, as already mentioned, the histogram:

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Getting ready for Kdenlive 0.7.8
By j-b-m, 08/28/2010 - 18:38

We are now preparing the Kdenlive 0.7.8 release which should be ready around the 13th of september 2010.

A lot of issues were fixed and several new features were added. You can see the list of issues in our 0.7.8 presentation page. In the next days, we will blog about the new features, so that you can discover what is waiting for you on the release day!

Everyone running the svn development version is encouraged to test Kdenlive and report issues on our bugtracker so that we fix a maximum of bugs for this release.

For the Kdenlive team,
Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

Kdenlive 0.7.6 released
By j-b-m, 10/08/2009 - 20:30

We are glad to announce the release of Kdenlive 0.7.6, 3 months after the 0.7.5 version.

Many crashes related to effects, transitions, and timeline corruption issues were fixed, and the latest MLT version (0.4.6) that is used for this Kdenlive release also provides an improved stability, so we encourage all our users to upgrade.

The list of fixed issues can be found on our bugtracker: http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/changelog_page.php?version_id=11

The new features are:

  • Title module: rewrite, now allows for basic animation (title zoom & scroll)
  • Track rename: users can now rename tracks
  • Composite transition: keyframes can now be moved
  • Clip management: image and audio clips are automatically monitored and updated in the timeline whenever they change on disk
  • User interface cleanup: cleaner look for timeline
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