Kdenlive 0.9 information page

Kdenlive version 0.9 was released on the 15th of may 2012.

Illustrated new features

Improved effect stack
Effects can now manipulated in a more intuitive way.
You can group them, drag and drop and
adjust several effects in the same widget [1] Browsing of online resources
You can now easily browse and import graphics,
audio and videos from online resources.
Currently, archive.org, freesound and open clip art are supported. [2]

Changelog

Features and tweaks

• Improve detection of locale issues (default to POSIX when there is a locale conflict on the system)
• Improve timeline operation for small clips (disable resizing, only allow move)
• Add background color parameter to "Rotate" and "Pan and Zoom" effects
• Allow to scroll using the mouse wheel in monitor editing scene
• Zoom to mouse when using CTRL + mouse wheel in monitor editing scene
• Add support for new slope mode in "Color Selection" effect to allow smooth alpha transition
• Introduce grouping of effects; groups can also be saved
• Allow dragging an effect to another clip/track
• Allow record monitor to go fullscreen
• Image sequences can now start at an arbitrary frame (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2508)
• Add automatic clip alignment based on audio (experimental, has to be manually enabled)s
• Allow archiving for offline use (only archive proxies)
• Offline editing: Allow working on project with only proxies available (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2509)
• Allow rendering to another framerate
• Check for missing locale and ask to install instead of opening corrupted project
• Allow to open project files manually extracted from archived project
• Support dropping a folder in the project tree (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=1288)
• Add "select all clips in track" and "select all clips in timeline" features (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=1950)
• Put audio effects in subcategories to avoid uberlong menus (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2436)
• Support for project metadata (can be embedded in rendered file)
• Add Online Resource Widget allowing easy search and download of online services (freesound, openclipart, archive.org)
• Introduce MLT clip analysis to get auto normalize data in sox gain effect
• Connect recording to audio scopes
• Add audio only recording (works while playing)
• Add extract zone function: part of clip is copied to new file without re-encoding
• Introduce generic job framework to process clips
• Improve the Choose color widget: Use less space and make it easier to pick the average color value from an area
• Add GUI for effect Dynamic Text: Allows to display timecode/framecount and other data
• Rework effect stack: All effects are shown at once and are collapsible
• Add two different video stabilizers
• Add IIR Blur GUI
• Add date column to project tree

Bugfixes

• Fix monitor effect scene sometimes forcing monitor minimum size
• Fix clip move sometimes giving error when it should work
• Fix custom effects not considering capital letters in name (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2580)
• Fix script rendering when script name contains whitespace
• Ensure clip in project tree is visible after rename (scroll if necessary) (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2563)
• Fix monitor scene never resetting scrollbars
• Fix issues with transitions when inserting track (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2477)
• Fix some GUI elements not responding to color theme change
• Do not hide render profile list when there is only one item to avoid confusion (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2543)
• Fix consecutive error messages overwriting each other (http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2519)
• Fix crash when editing properties of several missing clips
• Fix vectorscope for 24b RGB images (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2478)
• Fix archiving sometimes not saving playlist clips and subclips (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2475)
• Fix archiving feature not saving playlist clips and slowmotion clips inside them (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2475)
• Fix crash recovery feature issues with long or non UTF-8 filenames (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2441, http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2450)
• Fix rendering jobs sometimes not starting
• Fix crash on proxy creation (concurrency issue) (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2471)
• Fix zone playing (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2468)
• Fix click on monitor sometimes not triggering play
• Fix crash when moving a folder and a clip in project tree (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2458)
• Fix color change not working in title widget (http://kdenlive.org/mantis/view.php?id=2459)
• Fix slideshow clips created with invalid frame duration
• Fix profile warning with clips that have 1088 pixels height
• Fix unnecessary proxy reload on document load
• Fix detection of broken render scripts

Bugs and features in the bug tracker

1 features introduced in Kdenlive 0.9

• issue #2329 [3] Sort clips by timestamp.

49 bugs fixed in Kdenlive 0.9

• issue #2581 [4] Dragging an effect group on an effect duplicates the group's content
• issue #2551 [5] Improve the french language
• issue #264 [6] timeline numbers overlap and are chopped off at the top
• issue #1950 [7] Select all clips of all tracks
• issue #1949 [8] Select all clips of a track
• issue #1065 [9] Cannot move clip anymore until restart
• issue #2499 [10] Loading recent projects freezes interface following recent MLT fix for render failure
• issue #2516 [11] Crash on startup
• issue #2515 [12] Slideshow clip "frame duration" blank
• issue #2503 [13] *** buffer overflow detected ***
• issue #2468 [14] Zone behaviour not right
• issue #2502 [15] Crash upon start - openSUSE 12.1-64bit
• issue #2271 [16] Preview monitor stops display the image
• issue #2521 [17] Earlier crash event, details forgotten
• issue #2519 [18] Messages in the status bar are not shown at all when a new message immediately follows
• issue #2522 [19] Crash while playing
• issue #2523 [20] new MLT 0.7.8 crash segfault at end of every rendering job
• issue #2526 [21] pcm_s16le codec not found by kde/MLT with recent versions of FFmpeg
• issue #2535 [22] kdenlive blocks on opening
• issue #2543 [23] Usability: Render profile selector confusing when only one profile exists under category.
• issue #2544 [24] Crash on startup
• issue #2573 [25] "With track" of composite transition jumps back to auto as soon as parameters are changed
• issue #2588 [26] Right Hand Mouse Click On Audio Track 2 Box -> CRASH
• issue #2576 [27] Saved effect group preset are added to a clips existing effect group of the same name
• issue #2587 [28] Kdenlive git fails to build with Qt< 4.7 [audioCorrelation]
• issue #2578 [29] adding a saved effects group preset by right clicking on the strip does not work
• issue #2580 [30] Capitalization of effect and effect group presets' names is not recognized properly
• issue #2597 [31] Crash
• issue #2596 [32] Build Kdenlive for Ubuntu 12.04
• issue #1322 [33] Rendering Option "Selected Zone" renders only the first frame of selected zone
• issue #2603 [34] Kdenlive fails to build with KDE<4.5
• issue #2002 [35] Clip zones inserted in the project tree are lost after re-opening project
• issue #2181 [36] Kdenlive does not render composite clips correctly
• issue #2388 [37] Loading a lot of HD clips crashes UI after a while.
• issue #2357 [38] Project does not render video channel on webm
• issue #2382 [39] Crashes upon startup.
• issue #2429 [40] Kdenlive crasches
• issue #2427 [41] mlt from git makes UI crash.
• issue #2456 [42] Will not start after upgrading version. Crash handler every time.
• issue #2448 [43] Crash when switching profile
• issue #2438 [44] Crash after launch
• issue #2459 [45] Title Clip - change color of selected text object fails
• issue #2457 [46] Compilation On Debian Squeeze 32bit (KDE 4.4.4) Fails after switch from QJson to Solid
• issue #2472 [47] Proxies don't get queued automatically.
• issue #2471 [48] Kdenlive crashes while creating proxies.
• issue #2465 [49] crash when moving project monitor
• issue #2473 [50] Image clip duration reverts to 5s after reloading project
• issue #2480 [51] qt related crash when starting kdenlive
• issue #2487 [52] Crash after adding a clip