Welcome to Kdenlive —
a free and open-source video editor for GNU/Linux and FreeBSD

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...

Latest version is Kdenlive 0.9, released in may 2012, see announcement and info page.

 Recent blog entries

Kdenlive 0.9 released
Improving effects workflow in Kdenlive
Kdenlive fundraising campaign
Kdenlive - latest developments
Kdenlive 0.8.2.1 released
Kdenlive bugfix release

Kdenlive 0.9 released
By j-b-m, 05/15/2012 - 10:26, updated 2 days 1 hour ago


Kdenlive 0.9 has just been released. We encourage all users to upgrade to this new version that fixes many small issues and should improve the overall user experience. Some of the new features include:

Improved effects workflow

The effect stack was rewritten to allow adjusting parameters for several effects in one go. Effects can also be grouped, groups can be saved and effects or groups can be dragged and dropped onto another clip

Automatic audio alignment

If you have been working on a scene with several camcorders, Kdenlive can now automatically align the clips in timeline using the audio.

Easy import of online resources

Kdenlive now has an online resource browser that allows you to easily preview and import audio, graphic and video resources from archive.org, freesound audio library and open clip art.

Usability improvements

Many small improvements and bugfixes should make your use of Kdenlive nicer and smoother, for examples:

  • Recording can now be monitored through the audio and color scopes, audio normalization can analyse audio for better results
  • Allow audio only recording
  • Clips can be sorted by date
  • New effects from MLT / frei0r: video stabilizers, IIR Blur, etc
  • Offline editing (Backup the project with proxy clips only to work on less powerful computers)
  • See a more complete changelog on our Kdenlive 0.9 info page

Get it!

The Kdenlive 0.9 source tarball can be downloaded from the KDE servers: download link.
Binary packages will be announced in our download page

The future

A big thank you to all the people that contributed in one way or another to improve this new version. Some bugfix 0.9.x releases will be made when necessary, but in the background we are working (well mostly Till) on a refactoring to cleanup the code and hope to reach the 1.0 milestone by the end of the year, thanks to the fantastic success of our fundraising campaign.

As usual, users are welcome to join our forums and bugtracker to report problems.

Improving effects workflow in Kdenlive
By j-b-m, 04/01/2012 - 14:55, updated 6 weeks 3 days ago

First, I should say a big thank you to all the people that helped make our Fundraising campaign so successful, but more infos about that will come in the next days. It is anyways really motivating to see that you are supporting us!

On my side, I have been working on a rewrite of the Kdenlive's effect stack. This work has just been merged into master git, so users of sunab's experimental PPA will get it in the next update, probably in 1-2 days.

The highlights are:

  • Adjust parameters for several effects without switching between effects
  • Drag & drop effects from the effect stack to another clip or track
  • Create effect groups that can be saved or dropped to easily pass effects to another clip or track

I tested the new features for some time now, there are probably a few bugs, but it is really worth it in my opinion, So I am waiting for your feedback & bug reports. And here is a small video demonstrating the new effect stack (video link):

Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

Kdenlive fundraising campaign
By ttill, 03/15/2012 - 23:07, updated 1 week 4 days ago

With an ever growing code base Kdenlive has become harder and harder to maintain and to develop further. To drastically improve this situation we worked out a plan to refactor Kdenlive's code at the KDE developer sprint in Randa last summer. However since we are all short of time you haven't seen any of promised work done yet.

But now you have the possibility to help. I will be able to work on Kdenlive full time in May and June. To do so however I need an income. We therefore created a funding campaign on IndieGoGo. While you might not be interested in the code improvements itself sure you are in the resulting benefits: When the code is easy to maintain less bugs occur. Developers have more time to work on new features. It's easier to attract new developers which accelerates progress.

So go ahead and donate to our Kdenlive fundraising campaign

Kdenlive - latest developments
By j-b-m, 12/30/2011 - 20:07, updated 6 weeks 5 days ago

Here is a quick info on the features introduced in Kdenlive git since the release of Kdenlive 0.8.2.1.

Audio Recording


Capture through MLT's avformat producer now supports audio only capture. It even works while playing the timeline, so that you can record a comment while viewing your project. You can see a screenshot of the updated capture widget.

Clip Jobs


A generic job framework was introduced, based on the proxy clip feature. Here are some of the consequences:

  • It means first that the proxy clip got some UI improvements. Progress of the proxy job is now shown in a small progress bar at the bottom of the clip thumbnail, so that the operation is not distrubing your workflow.
  • Then, the new job framework is intended to make it easier to introduce new operations on project clip, for example a new Extract zone feature allows to cut parts of a clip without re-encoding (using FFmpeg codec copy feature).
  • Another related feature is the introduction of clip analysis for some effects. For now, it is available in the "Sox Gain" effect that now has a "Normalize" button. This will trigger an analysis of the clip to find the best gain correction.
  • More jobs are expected to appear, for example the Stabilize feature could be ported to it.


Online services integration


A new Online Resource widget made its appearance, and allows you to easily browse and download resources from the web. Currently, two services are implemented:

  • The excellent Freesound free audio library allows you to search and import audio clips in a few clicks.
  • The great Open Clip Art library allows you to import graphic files.

That's all for now, but I am quite happy with those newly introduces features, after all those months spent fixing bugs for the last release.

Interested testers can get the current git version from sunab's experimental PPA, or through the Kdenlive Build script.

Next, we have to work on the refactoring suff to improve our existing code, make it more modular and easier to contribute.

Thanks for reading, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle
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