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

Kdenlive - latest developments
By j-b-m, 12/30/2011 - 20:07, updated 28 weeks 1 day 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

Kdenlive 0.8.2.1 released
By j-b-m, 12/08/2011 - 23:27, updated 1 year 11 weeks ago

The 0.8.2.1 release of the Kdenlive video editor is now available. This is a bugfix release that solves several startup crashes and other important problems in the 0.8.2 version.

All users should upgrade to that new version that provides an improved stability as well as some threading optimisations that should make some operations slighlty faster.

Source code can be downloaded from our Sourceforge page, and binary packages will be announced when available.

A changelog and details of the resolved issues can be found on the Kdenlive 0.8.2.1 info page.

For the Kdenlive team,
Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

Kdenlive bugfix release
By j-b-m, 11/16/2011 - 01:04, updated 1 year 26 weeks ago
Kdenlive 0.8.2 - released 2 weeks ago - had several annoying issues that were quickly reported, including startup crash on some systems. We did our best to fix these issues and are almost ready to launch a 0.8.2.1 bugfix release.

So if you experienced serious problems with the 0.8.2 version and want to help, we would like you to test our latest development version so that we can make sure the biggest problems are solved for a bugfix release.

If you are on Ubuntu, you can use the Sunab experimental PPA that will bring you the latest MLT and Kdenlive (please note that currently it is an english only release, translations should be back in a few days).

Other users can try the latest code using the Kdenlive build script that was updated to use our new git repository.

You will find detailed infos on the current issues on the 0.8.2.1 info page.

For the Kdenlive team, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

Welcome to KDE Git, Kdenlive!
By avilla, 11/11/2011 - 15:27, updated 1 year 13 weeks ago

0.8.2 release marked the time to complete our switch to KDE development infrastructure started in Randa a few months ago. On November 8th our old Subversion repository on SourceForge was discontinued, and we moved on to our new, shiny KDE Git repository!
There are at least a couple of differences you - especially developers and translators - should be informed about.

  • Development workflow. Git offers many features that Subversion doesn't. Thus, we're defining a workflow to guide development which will hopefully improve stability in next releases. We'll have it documented quite soon.
  • Translations. Kdenlive translations are not stored anymore into its sources: they're now in KDE l10n module. Should you want to work on them, you'll have to get in touch with your translation team. Also - this is mostly for packagers -, we'll write a script to automatically fetch translations and populate appropriate directories for tarball releasing. Again, our documentation will be properly updated.

As a KDE project, Kdenlive is now open to a wide developer ecosystem. Just as we don't want to loose any active developer (get a KDE Git account!), we would be happy to welcome new members, occasional contributors and new translators to our team, maybe among those already committed to KDE. The road to Kdenlive is much shorter now, don't play hard to get! ;)
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