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 0.9.6, released in april 2013, see announcement and info page.

 Recent blog entries

Kdenlive 0.9.6 released
Kdenlive 0.9.4 released
Preparing for the new Kdenlive release
Kdenlive 0.9.2 released
Fixing bugs in Kdenlive 0.9
Kdenlive 0.9 released

Fixing bugs in Kdenlive 0.9
By j-b-m, 05/28/2012 - 08:59, updated 44 weeks 5 days ago

Ten days ago, I released the new 0.9 version of the Kdenlive video editor. Several annoying bugs were quickly detected and most of them are now fixed in git. so I am going to release Kdenlive 0.9.1 soon (hopefully tonight).

The fixes include:

  • Fix freeze when reloading previously missing clip
  • Fade effects lost when moving / resizing clip
  • Undoing change in clip crop start breaking clip
  • Make disabling of track effects possible
  • Fix slideshow clips not working
  • Fix crash on composite transition
  • Fix crash when opening stop motion widget
  • Fix rendering of projects created in another locale

For ubuntu users, these fixes are already available in the sunab's kdenlive-svn PPA, so if you want to give it a try before the official release and give some feedback, that would be great.

Kdenlive 0.9 released
By j-b-m, 05/15/2012 - 10:26, updated 36 weeks 3 days 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 33 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 47 weeks 3 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
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