The second minor release of the 19.04 series is out with 77 bug fixes and minor usability improvements. Among the highlights for this release are fixes for compositing issues, misbehaving guides/markers and grouping inconsistencies. The Windows version also comes with improvements such as slideshow import and dark themes have now white icons (enable “Force Breeze Icon Theme” under settings). See the full list of commits down below.
As previously stated this cycle is focused on polishing the rough edges post the code refactoring and a whopping 118 fixes have been submitted in the last two months alone. We ask the community to keep testing and reporting issues on our gitlab instance or join us on IRC (#kdenlive) or Telegram.
Update: the 19.04.2 AppImage is available on KDE servers, with an added fix for group operation slowdown.
In other news
After this months Café we started to define the upcoming milestones for 19.08 which include Nested timelines and improvements in Speed Effect controls and advanced editing tools (insert/lift/overwrite). Also work started on the Titler revamping as part of the GSOC program. You can share your thoughts and ideas with Akhil over at the phabricator task.
Bug fixes
- Fix copy effect or split does not keep disabled state. Commit. Fixes bug #408242
- Fix various keyframe related issues. Commit.
- Fix error in composition index for 1st track. Commit. Fixes bug #408081
- Fix audio recording not added to timeline. Commit.
- Fix guides in render widget. Commit.
- Fix timeline selection/focus broken by recent commit. Commit.
- Fix fade in broken on cut clips. Commit.
- Revert audio capture to wav (should fix Windows issue #214). Commit.
- Fix automask bugs (initial zone incorrect and not displayed on monitor). Commit.
- Fix timeline unresponsive after deleting all clips. Commit.
- Properly load colors & icons (Fix #112). Commit.
- Fix clip grab state not updated on deselection. Commit.
- Add speed info to clip tooltip. Commit.
- Allow shortcut for change speed action. Commit.
- Fix copy / paste track issue. Commit.
- Fix slideshow clips on Windows. Commit.
- Fix windows icons. Commit.
- Add properly scaled Windows icon. Commit.
- Fix crash opening old project file. Commit.
- Remove old speed effect from categorization. Commit.
- Automatically convert old custom effects to new type (and make a backup copy in the legacy folder). Commit.
- Fix clip transcode incorrect label. Commit. Fixes bug #407808
- Fix various transcoding issues. Commit. See bug #407808
- Prevent saving corrupted file (with no tracks). Commit. See bug #407798
- Detect corrupted project files on opening, propose to open backup. Commit. See bug #407798
- Fix timewarp test after rounding change in timewarp clip duration. Commit.
- Use default composition duration instead of full clip length on composition creation. Commit.
- Fix invalid clip on project opening. Commit. See bug #407778
- Fix 1 frame offset in clip duration after speed change. Commit.
- Fix incorrect minimum speed. Commit.
- Fix remaining marker issues. Commit.
- Don’t create producers with non integer length (fixes invalid clip issue). Commit.
- Do not use MLT producer’s get_length_time methd as it changes the way the length property is stored, causing inconsistencies (clock vs smpte_df). Commit. See bug #407778
- Fix crash when marker was at clip start. Commit.
- Fix marker position on clip cuts with speed effect. Commit.
- Fix custom effect appearing with wrong name after save. Commit.
- Use rounder rect icon instead of placeholder folder icon for custom effects. Commit.
- Correctly hide/show asset settings when deselected/reselected. Commit.
- Fix markers and snapping for clips with speed effect. Commit.
- Disable filter clip job on tracks. Commit.
- Fix crash in audio thumbs with reverse speed clip. Commit.
- Fix mistake in previous commit. Commit.
- Fix removeAllKeyframes. Commit.
- Make lock track undoable and other fixes for locking + tests. Commit.
- Re-add “go to guide” menu in timeline. Commit. Fixes bug #407528
- Fix timeline doesn’t scroll with cursor. Commit. Fixes bug #407433
- When importing a project file as clip, deduce the empty seek space. Commit.
- Fix opening project containing invalid clips (when a source file somehow went missing). Commit.
- Fix ungrouping when we have a selection of groups and single clips. Commit.
- Don’t invalidate timeline/refresh monitor on audio effects. Commit.
- Fix wrong stream imported by default on multistream clips. Commit.
- Improve snap behavior on group resizing. Commit.
- Fix dynamic text broken because of missing font & keyword params. Commit.
- Fix snapping issues (disable snapping on high zoom levels). Commit.
- Better abstraction for locking mechanism. Commit.
- Fix endless clip test. Commit.
- Fix resetView test. Commit.
- Fix edit duration from timeline menu not connected. Commit.
- Fix crash on resize after recent group resize fix. Commit.
- Restore go to marker/guide context menu in monitor. Commit.
- Fix regrouping items loses AVSplit property. Commit.
- Fix: interpolation in rotoscoping filter. Commit. Fixes bug #407418
- Fix list parameter default value broken (rotoscoping), ensure we always have a keyframe at in point. Commit.
- Allow building on Ubuntu LTS & derivatives. Commit.
- Fix context menu “edit guide” leaving empty space in menu. Commit.
- Fix fuzzer compilation. Commit.
- Fix timeline preview crash. Since a QCoreApp was created by kdenlive_render, MLT did not create its own QApplication, leading to linking crashes. Commit.
- Enforce progressive and fps on dnxhd timeline preview profiles. Commit.
- Add AppImage specific code to ensure we always set the correct path for MLT, FFmpeg, etc. Commit.
- Don’t delete timeline preview files on project close. Commit.
- Fix crash trying to delete first keyframe. Fixes #180. Commit.
- Revert composition sorting to match previous stable behavior. Commit.
- Fix title clip length 1 frame shorter than expected on creation. Commit.
- Fix grouping after copy / paster. Commit.
- Fix gap on clip move when trying to move clips. Commit.
- Fix composition tracks listed in reverse order. Commit.
- Fix copy/paste composition is one frame shorter. Commit.
I’m on Windows. How can/should I update Kdenlive?
https://kdenlive.org/en/download/ Bottom of page LHS – links to the windows install
Please keep up your awesome work!
I am sure once the new refactored version copes with all its bugs Kdenlive will be the best open source tool of a lind not only in Linux world, but on Windows too.
Thanks! I realized that there is a uninstall wizard that came in with Kdenlive. I wanted to make sure to remove the old version before downloading the new one.
I am very glad to hear this news.
Can’t wait to try it.
Always thank you for this great job!
Is it possible to make a feature to merge 2 clips into 1 instead of
grouping them? This seems like it could be handy in some instances.
The new v19 version looks better every time I upgrade or view the nightly builds.
This will be possible with multiple timelines which is a feature that is being considered for 19.08!
Thanks, I think that will be a very positive improvement.
Unfortunately crashes reliably with signal 11 when opening a three year old project.
I’d like to debug the crash opening the old project and/or produce a useful bug report, but I don’t know how to install debug symbols with AppImage. The Ubuntu PPA only has release 19.04.1. Should I just wait for 19.04.2?
Cause for the crash seem to be missing clips. Workaround was to open the project with 17.12, resolve the missing clips and save the project. Then it was possible to open it with 19.04.
When using effects, the window sizing becomes a problem … the size required by the effect forces me to resize other windows in order to accommodate the full width of the effect in the window.
The windows either need to float, or configure to the existing space that is available to them when they are moved to the window. This isn’t a bug, its a user interface issue that is very annoying and time consuming. I’m running the appimage latest stable and nightly build on Mint 18.3. Thanks for your continuing good work. Improvements are very obvious.
Kudos to all of you, who develops KdenLive for Linux!
The way you can custom config these 3 toolbars and then that you can
also place 2 of those toolbars and window(s) as you prefer(AE style), is a solution
for users who only like to use a mouse to edit.
Minor things to take notice:
– little bit too dark video in clip and project monitor
(by setting a temp brightness effect/from 500 to 550 helps.)
– Speed clip: reverse clip(does something -100% and does not work)
so in the timeline the only change is that both the start/end thumbernail
is same as the add clip start thumb(should be start/end of inserted clip).
saw this : Bug 377337 report,
“Created mlt-file is not revers, but
open mlt file with Kate and rewriting the minus mark on line
−1:P1010648.MP4 (old line)
-1:P1010648.MP4 (rewrited line)
everything works fine.
Comment 1 emohr 2018-10-13 10:31:54 UTC
what is the difference?”
want to try this, where is appimage tmp file called mlt file?
is there any point to change from the temp enviroment of the ffmpeg to installed one?
does kdenlive appimages use the latest ffmpeg? how to check?
– (clip untitled allready exists) a short 10s rendering is 20s with the a rename,
a auto-rename solution would be great.
– Name [razor tool] is ever so little cruel and confusing when a icon is a scissor/a cut tool.
Big Thanks also for the Nightly Kdenlive appimages.
Its so nice to see the Nightly change log and give a Witness
to the Greatness that is and that KdenLive will become.
Getting crashes when trying to cut my main clip with an additional audio clip.
It is pretty consistent … i select both clips and cut … Kden crashes. If I group the clips first, it does not crash. This is in the stable version … not daily.I’m running appimage on Mint 18.3
You select with holding shift an video and audio clip. How do you make the cut? With shift+r?
When rendering video to H.264:
Is it possible (and how) to only copy (lossless) audio instead of compressing it?
Marco
I noticed that the VIEW main menu item that had Zoom In/Zoom out has been removed. I think that
is a positive change. I don’t think people use the current VIEW menu often in their work, you set it up and leave it … considering this, I think this item should be a sub-menu under the Settings menu. This would help simplify the main menu to items that are frequently changed.
The project keeps getting better!!
Zoom in/out belongs to the timeline. It’s now moved to timeline: https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdenlive/commit/07988756febb4521c1fae9c95649250191a442a8
I have used kdenlive-19.04.2e-x86_64.appimage for a video with titles and some sound editing, it crashed only once in about 12 hours. Awesome! I think kdenlive is finally stable (almost) and feature-reach! I was waiting for this for years. Keep up your great work! Now I will always try to use kdenlive instead of Premiere.
A few small bugs I noticed:
– better to save project and restart the app before render, this way it consumes significantly less RAM
– Position & Zoom effect, end of keyframe line is not visible (a few of last keyframes)
Why are the video and audio tracks not in order, this annoys me.
It’s like this:
v2
v1
A1
A2
This makes no sense, and why can we not reorder them to our liking?
You can do that but a video track has to be on top otherwise it breaks: https://invent.kde.org/kde/kdenlive/issues/269.
“Free” re-ordering of existing tracks is not possible at the moment.
Workaround: Make a template project. Right click on the track header and add or delete audio and video tracks in the order as you like. Save the template.