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Kdenlive 0.8 information page

This page describes the version 0.8 of Kdenlive that was released on the 26th of April 2011.

Illustrated new features

Rotoscoping
New effect for creating masks using cubic Bézier curves and keyframes.
Corners GUI
Easy perspective image alignment.
Also explains our new effects GUI!
Widget Layouts
Layouts can be saved and restored, and optimized for specific tasks.
No flooding with widgets anymore!
Light Graffiti
Long-time exposure … but for video!
The first Light Graffiti effect that is not kept secret and is available for everybody …
Audio Spectrum and Spectrogram
Audio Monitoring has arrived in kdenlive! Including detection of overmodulation.
I and Q lines for the Vectorscope
Flesh tone lines for the Vectorscope.
Help you with color grading.
Stop Motion capture
A new widget allows you to easily do Stop Motion capture,
capturing frames from your webcam or HDMI Decklink card.

Bugs and features in the bug tracker

27 features introduced in Kdenlive 0.8
  • issue #903 Project Content: Smaller directory images for better overview
  • issue #1892 Jog shuttle navigation improvement
  • issue #1891 Jog shuttle navigation improvement
  • issue #1303 Missing "color-curves" filter effect
  • issue #473 Feature Request - Add Pan & Zoom "kenburns" effect to MLT
  • issue #849 Add user defined title templates on the Add Clip menu
  • issue #1583 Proxy clips for editing
  • issue #1697 VU meter and Peak meter.
  • issue #1948 Show additional explanation for frei0r effects without parameters
  • issue #1968 Show parameter comments for checkboxes as well
  • issue #1338 Wish: add Masking option
  • issue #1893 Jog shuttle navigation improvement
  • issue #1828 QFileDialog should have a default Place entry to project folder
  • issue #1992 Auto-check first entry in Effect Stack for editing in the timeline
  • issue #2000 Use spline interpolation for the Curves effect
  • issue #2023 Enabling/disabling a proxy clip should set the project status to «changed»
  • issue #279 Ask user to change projekt profile if first added clip has resolution or other properties different from project profile
  • issue #481 save/recall widget layout
  • issue #756 feature request resize multipple clips
  • issue #1683 Monitors: Fullscreen mode
  • issue #1754 Different layout for color correction and effects
  • issue #1768 Add Notes to projects
  • issue #1812 kdenlive should have ability to import clips from commandline
  • issue #1844 Image preview
  • issue #1858 Deleting multiple files from Project Tree asks confirmations for each file: we need a apply to all!
  • issue #1939 Frei0r effects: Show optional explanation of the parameter
  • issue #693 kdenlive startup should have some sort of notification to user that it is loading project

102 bugs fixed in Kdenlive 0.8
  • issue #2221 Crash on new project
  • issue #2185 Open .MOV with Kdenlive error occurred while parsing element
  • issue #2090 crash while removing track from timeline
  • issue #1978 always crash (help me please)
  • issue #2096 extracting frame should use the source clip instead of proxy
  • issue #2241 Saturation ("Saturat0r") effect breaks when equalizer is used
  • issue #2236 Old aspect ratio and frame size remembered after opening file with another AR/FS
  • issue #1462 No choice between keyframability and non-keyframability of effects
  • issue #1829 titler: TextColor+Outline+Typewriter=wrong color
  • issue #1894 Render on a full disk don't get an error
  • issue #1854 kdenlive crashes when video effects applied to "track"
  • issue #1464 kdenlive collapse if i try to use the effekt: transparent
  • issue #2013 Crash when changing effect value
  • issue #1841 Crash when deleting titles
  • issue #1701 Tif/Tiff slideshow clip
  • issue #1890 Crash on deselecting "force pixel ration" in the clip properties
  • issue #1884 f0r_param_color of frei0r plugins is swapping R/B channels in case of F0R_COLOR_MODEL_BGRA8888
  • issue #1880 Adding Pan & Zoom effect to a title clip causes the text to stretch horizonally.
  • issue #1556 Kdenlive crashed after using the "distance" tool
  • issue #1881 Effects cannot be really deleted
  • issue #1825 Segmentation recovering project
  • issue #1923 Composite transition sheer the image
  • issue #1927 Render scripts cannot render paths containing spaces
  • issue #1962 Transcoding to mkv or wav truncates audio
  • issue #1953 Wipe transition is interlaced while the remaining video is de-interlaced
  • issue #1977 Crash when opening lots of clips at once.
  • issue #1990 No message on error
  • issue #1985 Selecting group of videos in Project Tree -> Attempt force colour space -> Close -> CRASH!
  • issue #1984 Applying 'Full Luma Range' to group of clips in Project Tree Causes Crash
  • issue #1983 Append Keyframes to the end of the clip if there is no keyframe yet
  • issue #1980 Timeline thumbnail of title clip not updated when title clip modified
  • issue #1981 Segfaults in Effect Stack list
  • issue #1991 Selecting All In Project Tree -> Make Proxy -> Only Makes Proxy For First File In Selection Then Stops
  • issue #1994 Clip Monitor plays whole clip even when in and out set and play zone or loop zone is used.
  • issue #1998 Using razor tool on clip resizes clip in timeline
  • issue #1995 Applying advanced clipping settings in the project tree which includes folders with contents the folder contents are not amended
  • issue #2006 Cannot find an NTSC 1080 60p profile for rendering
  • issue #2004 kdenlive asks to save changes twice when closing a modified document
  • issue #2003 Audio sync with .mov input files
  • issue #2019 Unable to delete/move cut clips
  • issue #2010 Rendering to .vob (dvd profile) sound track muted
  • issue #2021 option to import images with transparent as default
  • issue #2025 Proxy clips not enabled when creating new project
  • issue #2026 Speed effekt is broken. Deadlock?
  • issue #2027 Clip groups loaded incorrectly
  • issue #2036 Loading project: Remember which folders were expanded (and which were NOT)
  • issue #2034 Segfault when working with Composite effect and titles
  • issue #2032 Proxy clips don't get generated automatically
  • issue #2031 fails to build with Qt 4.5
  • issue #2037 No audio at all when one audio track is muted (testcase attached)
  • issue #2051 Default layout too large?
  • issue #2042 Undoing "Cut Clip" on a clip with edited duration crashes Kdenlive
  • issue #2054 Not able to disable effect to use the eye-dropper widget
  • issue #2052 Focus switches to effect stack tab when moving clip from project tree tab to timeline
  • issue #2055 Crash when loading file from a month ago.
  • issue #2067 Editing title clips won't update their instances in the timeline
  • issue #2062 Set current image as thumbnail no longer working.
  • issue #2070 After dragging a clip to the timeline, focus switches to Effect Stack
  • issue #2071 Themes don-t work properly
  • issue #2077 Fix for all existing warnings while compiling
  • issue #2103 Rendering of speed effect : distorted videos when using proxy on HD
  • issue #997 kdenlive really slow to open a big project
  • issue #1182 when doping an effect on a track it should become selected
  • issue #1615 Effectlist expand only with Enter-key, no double mouse click.
  • issue #1661 DVD menu with >9 chapters
  • issue #1712 Insert Track should ask for the track name
  • issue #1711 Crash when loading project
  • issue #1774 Saved effects should be stored in the project file for transportability
  • issue #1761 Segfault in mlt_properties.c when loading project
  • issue #1762 Segfault in consumer_sdl_still.c when loading project
  • issue #1798 effect list
  • issue #1815 Crash when moving effect slider applied to the track
  • issue #1814 Adding Crop effect turns clip black
  • issue #1818 Segfault when loading WAV file
  • issue #1822 Crash on adding color effect to whole track
  • issue #1824 Don't buikd with Qt 4.5
  • issue #1827 Effect list doesn't expand itself when left clicking on a folder
  • issue #1833 After yesterday's update (SVN), no longer able to play any type of audio stream in the timeline: "src ratio outside *** range"
  • issue #1837 Effects in effect list are always hidden, have to enter letters in search field (but don't know the names of plugins)
  • issue #1834 Fails to build with KDE < 4.4 (new opengl fullscreen function for video monitor)
  • issue #1845 support mplayer-mt
  • issue #1850 Add support for NetBSD to build system
  • issue #1865 Notifications not translatable
  • issue #1870 Record monitor is too tight
  • issue #1913 Project not marked as modified when location of clips changes
  • issue #1911 Guide Labels should float
  • issue #1871 Rendering does not finish using WebM or Theora
  • issue #1926 Generated render scripts UTF8 filename problems
  • issue #1937 Crash when dragging a clip on the timeline
  • issue #1928 Crashes all time -- something is really wrong with current SVN
  • issue #1958 kdenlive trunk fails to build with Qt 4.5
  • issue #1944 Insert Space: Inconsistent behaviour
  • issue #1942 Removing all but one keyframe should revert the Effect Stack look
  • issue #1965 impossible to build kdenlive trunk with latest cmake 2.8.3 ?
  • issue #1971 Crash in AudioSpectrum when leaving Kdenlive open for some time
  • issue #1529 Projekt load time
  • issue #2056 crop effect removes too much pixels in monitor when used on a clip with proxy enabled
  • issue #1997 Background for new curve modes
  • issue #1598 Crash on replacing missing clips with placeholders
  • issue #2111 Freeze effect freezes the renderer under various circumstances
  • issue #2050 Rendering uses always proxy files
  • issue #1015 Drop visual quality for faster preview speed