We just released the first bugfix version for the 20.04 Kdenlive version. Despite our continued work, many issues were still affecting the 20.04.0 version. A lot of work has been done to fix crashes and other annoying issues, so the 20.04.1 version should be much more reliable and stable. We have a long list of fixed issues.
Windows: Motion Tracking effect integrated.
AppImage: Fix crash on older systems (remove OpenCV sse4 dependency)
Most notably, we have now fixed:
Crash fixes:
- Disable loading of .mlt playlists with profile not equal to project profile (caused crash)
- Fix possible crash on subclip thumbnail creation
- Fix crash trying to move timeline clip to another track when bin clip had some effects
- Fix crash creating DVD chapters
- Fix playlist profile incorrectly detected, leading to crashes when seeking in timeline
Important fixes:
- Fix timeline preview not invalidated on hide track
- Proxy clips: fix vaapi_h264 profile and ensure we keep the stream order
- Use safer QSaveFile class to ensure our document is not corrupted on disk full
- Fix rubber selection moving with scolling
- Fix image rendering (add %05d suffix)
- Fix timeline preview was incorrectly disabled
- Fix MLT 6.20 avformat slideshows not recognized on onpening (convert to standard qimage)
- Fix template title clips in timeline resetting duration on project re-open
- Fix paste clips/compositions sometimes not working or pasting on wrong track/position
- Fix compositions broken on insert audio track
- Fix audio drag from monitor broken
- Fix “archive project” creating broken backup files
- Fix track effect not adjusting duration when track duration changes (new clip appended)
- Additionnaly, a fix was committed in MLT git to fix audio desync with the pitch shift effect
UI fixes:
- Enable audiospectrum by default
- Make compositions use less vertical space, expand when selected
- Fix various geometry keyframe regressions in monitor
- Improve handling of missing clips, draw “photo” frame on image clips
- Improve notification of missing(deleted files) and don’t allow reloading a missing clip
- Always sync all keyframeable effects position with timeline position
- On clip move, also consider moving clip’s markers for snapping
- Delete all selected markers in clip properties dialog when requested
- Implement timecode parsing when pasting text in Project notes
- Shift + collapse will collapse expand all audio or video tracks
- On clip cut, auto reselect right part of the clip if it was previously selected
- Fix timeline sometimes not scrolling to cursor position
- Fix aspect ratio not working on title images
- titler: Remember to show background
- Fix glitch in bin item selection, causing some actions to be disabled
- Show clip speed before name so it’s visible when changing speed of a clip with long name
- Don’t use drop frame timecode for 23.98
Question about the Daily Builds: it now says everywhere in a red banner “Jenkins is going to shut down”.
Is https://binary-factory.kde.org losing its host-server? I can’t read a word about that anywhere.
As far as I can see with a Google research, it’s not the first time it happens. That means servers will be rebooted soon. That’s all. Nothing to worry about.
There’s a frustrating problem that I’ve run into just recently with the new version. Whenever I layer video clips with the top one having some transparency (such as a text image or video with a green screen), the section with the layering is all black in the rendered video, even though it looks fine when previewing it on the program. I shall try re-installing the program to see if this fixes it.
Thank you so much, guys! You’re awesome!
Cheers! Thanks for reporting your issues and share your videos. 😉
How does one update from 20.04.0 version ?
If you work on Linux: download the appimage and make it executable. If you work on Windows: Either de-install and re-install or delete the standalone version folder and download the new standalone version. Automatic update is on the to do list.
I am on Windows and yes I was afraid of that in that I came from another program that I was unhappy about for various reasons and that is one they did every year a new version to install did twice but no more how many versions can you have and remember which video you did in which one if you can do updates inside the program would be good as other people with Applications.
I like what I see with Kdenlive and as I have now configured it the way I want dont want to start all over again by uninstalling and reinstalling another version!
Just want to concentrate on my content creation not relearning every year
Your «personal» settings are stored in the kdenliverc file (in the custom/local folder). By deleting the Kdenlive folder and replacing it with the new version your settings are still there.
Yes thanks did that and now have 20.04.1 and was painless as you indicated.
plis fix the crush how happend when u edit some title.
Need a bit more details. Which steps you doing to have the crash?
when you jusy put write some title, after this you edit the same title, crash the software ( WINDOWS).
i change for pop os and see if works
I have isssue with effects for audio in 20.04.0. I save audio effect (“Equalizer”, “bandpass”)with edited parameters and try use this saved effect, he is applying to videotrack, not to audio. The same time, if i save this effect to “favorites” he is not appear in list of favorites effects on right-click menu for audiotrack. But with old effect “normalize” all work by the right way.
This issue will be fixed or not?
(Sri to my bad english 🙁 Good understand but vy bad speak).
This is a known bug: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/188
I’m completely new to editing and did my first music video yesterday, and it went ok! Only problem is when I added the music track it plays up until 60 sec and then goes quiet for the rest of the video… Any ideas where I’ve gone wrong? Thank you so much!
Do you put any fade out effect on the clip? Click the audio clip and check in Effect/Composition Stack.
Non vedo la funzione di motion tracking nella versione windows , dove la trovo?
Hi Worren.
If you want to use the Italian language, I suggest you to post your comments in the Italian section, in the future. 🙂
Anyway… this is where you can find what you are looking for:
go to effects and type into the search field: “motion tracker” -> that’s the effect.
Cheers.
Ciao Worren,
Se vuoi usare la lingua italiana ti invito ad usare la sezione del sito in questa, in futuro. 🙂
Ad ogni modo… ecco dove puoi trovare quello che cerchi:
vai nella finestra degli effetti e digita nel campo di ricerca: “motion tracker” -> ecco l’effetto.
Un saluto.
sorry my bad, thaks for info
Bug with Title Clip editor? (ver 20.04.1 on Win 10). The “show background” check box does not work. I open Title Clip editor window and the background MIGHT show … and might not. If it DOES show, and I click/unclick the “Show Background” checkbox a few times, I can no longer get the background to show on that title clip or any others. Restarting Kdenlive did not seem to help. Rebooting computer allowed me to see background in the Title Clip editor, but a little use and it disappeared. The consistent pattern is I can see background at first, but it disappears, and checking/unchecking “show backgrouind” then does nothing.
The background on title doesn’t work if you have set OpenGL to DirectX. See here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/603
Fix did not work for me. I have tried OpenGL and every other setting, and get the same problem. I can see background ONCE. If I reopen that title clip and/or create a new one, I cannot see background anymore. It has worked fine for me until this latest update. Win 10. Please let me know if there is something else I can try. Thanks.
ADDED NOTE: I reverted to KDENLIVE 19.12.3 standalone and the “show background” on title screen seems to work fine. NOTE: 1. I have to click “show background” every time … it will not (never did) persist as “show background”, rather defaults to unclicked. NOTE 2. I see an option in “Settings” > “Open GL Backend” > “Desktop OpenGL”. This “Desktop OpenGL” option is NOT offered in the new KDENLIVE version, but is set by default in this older one. Maybe a clue?? Thanks.
One other note on Title Clip editor — the “Align” default and button functions don’t seem to work right. Here’s the “good” and “bad” behavior as I see it:
The “T+” button inserts “Text”. (GOOD)
When I start typing, the first line behaves as left justified by default, and the left margin line is fixed -stationary, and the right margin moves right as I add text. (GOOD) (BUT … see note on “Align” button default below.)
I hit enter, and begin second line … and now text behaves as right justified. Now the RIGHT margin is fixed at the place where the FIRST line of text had ended, and now the LEFT margin now moves as I add text to line 2. (BAD)
NOTE- when I first add a text box using “T+” the “Align” button, by default, displays as “Right justify”. If I change “Align” to “Left justify”, the text DOES left align, BUT the right margin remains fixed – stationary- and the LEFT margin moves left as I add text to a line. (BAD)
Wouldn’t this make more sense:
1. “T+” adds a text box with LEFT justified button (and behavior) set by default.
2. Left justify should mean every line of text aligns on the left margin AND the left margin does not move as text is added — rather, the RIGHT margin line should shift further right as text is added.
I believe it used to work this way about a year ago … but sometime in the fall of 2019 this behavior on Title Clip editor quit working “right”.
THANKS MUCH for KDENLIVE. It serves my editing needs wonderfully, and I am VERY grateful for the work you do to make it available!!!! THANKS!
I’ve been having issues with the new timeline in 20.04.b vs v18 – dragging and dropping clips is sometimes blocked because of an inadequate number of audio tracks (and audio-only tracks therefore sometimes block dragged video). This didn’t happen with v18.
Is this intended behaviour? Because it seems like hard work to often need to add audio tracks when I need to put in another video, and keeping track of them is really complicated. Is it something that is fixed in this version?
I have a problem about creating proxy file from a video (.mts format). In previous version, i can easily make proxy file without problem. However, in this version i get an error:
“Subtitle encoding currently only possible from text to text or bitmap to bitmap”
I’m using MPEG2 for Encoding Profile
How to fix this? Thank You!
Also having this problem. Watching for reply
I stumbled across this too these days and as an intermediate workaround I created a file with the line
[code]
#!/bin/bash
ffmpeg -sn -an “$@”
exit $?
[/code]
Make sure you chmod +x /path/to/script
In the setting of kdenlive, under “Environment”, you replace the value for ffmpeg (which should read like “/usr/bin/ffmpeg”) by the full name of your file (i.e. /path/to/script )
Worked for me.
sorry, the ffmpeg line is
ffmpeg -sn “$@”
(no -an) – my apologies
Thanks for the workaround but it can be used on Windows?
is this still the only way to fix this?
There is a bug building the proxy clips which will be fixed with 19.04.2. Try with 19.12.3.
My appimage running on Linux Mint 19.03 stopped making proxy clips for .mp4 files. If I transcode them the .mov file makes does make a proxy clip.
Any idea what might cause it not to create proxies for .mp4??
Any help appreciated.
J.R.
Strange bug, i find the motion tracker only if change the language from italian to english
Absolutely love the product, and have donated! This may not be the forum for a feature suggestion, but curious, are there plans at all to expand functionality in the Title Editor, more specifically to support subscripts and superscripts? If there’s a better way to accomplish this, I’m all ears! Keep up the great work!
Hi, thanks! We will be posting a report soon on the progress so stay tuned. But you can follow the development here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/460
That’s excellent! Can’t wait!
Hi I’m new to using Kdenlive. I try to use proxy clips so the video preview will hopefully run smoothly on my computer, but whichever encoding profile I use, my video files just turn white and end up not working. Any way to solve this? Thank you!
I have same problem, I transcode them and then they work. The resulting file is an .mov
Hi!
I have the same problem, the proxy-clips are turning white and don’t work…
I have tried with 4k, full HD files from my camcorder, …..all the same. mp4 files from my mobile phone are encoded to proxy very well?! why not the mp4 files from the camcorder?
I also tried the workaround with transcoding to mov, yes it works, but this is no solution for 200GB of footage.
Is there any solution for this problem???
I really would like to use kdenlive…but without proxies my hardware is not powerfull enough
This proxy problem happens on ubuntu as also on Win7….same not working proxy-clips
Please, has anyone a solution?
Thank you!!
We detect an error how Kdenlive handle MPG4 files which comes from GoPro. The MPG4 file has data-channels which are not supported by Kdenlive at the moment. From which camera comes your file?
My files are from a Sony FDR-AX53
My files that won’t make proxies are from a DJI Osmo Pocket shot at 30fps 2.7k and a Sony a5100 shot at 30fps 1080p. Sorry no more cameras to test with.
My friend sent me some files from a Samsung Galaxy S10 shot at 30fps, 1080p and they worked fine.
Thanks for the input. We track it under https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/695
@Eugene, @J.R. Regenold. We like to test further. Could you upload on dropbox or somewhere else a small sample clip of your mentioned cameras? It would be very helpful.
Sure, I can do it. Will let you know when it’s up.
The videos are very helpful. Would it be possible to shoot with both cameras footage without person visible? Each ca. 80MB. = ca. 8-10sec.
Samples:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/0uyt39460mi5bwk/AADg20HTy7VkrfrhuMwGTGPva?dl=0
Thank you for the samples which I downloaded.
No problem, anything I can do to help. I really like Kdenlive and appreciate the progress being made. I know it’s not easy. I’m back using 19.12.3 now. It does all I need until the proxy and bin problems get resolved.
I can confirm the issue with the white clip. In 19.12.3 I can’t even load the clip.
I just loaded the sample clips in 19.12.3 The clips load and automatically make the proxy clips without issue. My machine is a Linux Mint 19.03 and I’m using the appimage.
Great job, maybe in twenty years from now this software will be able to do more than one picture videos without crashing all the time.
Thanks for the encouraging words, you are so sweet! Btw, whenever you experience a crash do report it because we will fix it very quickly. 😉
Hi guys, Thanks for your job!
I have some problem: effects Astions doesn’t have effect Speed, but this xml file there is in files/
Hello all … I am experiencing problems adding Library Files to the Project Bin. I get a “Cannot open file (path/filename.mlt}. I can save clips to the Library File, but this error always appears when I try to add the Library File to the Project Bin. I have the correct path set in the Environment … it also doesn’t work when I use the default path to the Library.
project preview(Monitor) is black screen and blinking
I do not know where to put criticism or where to email anyone in regards to future features or update ideas. I have been looking on various social media or any emails But i will just put it here and say i have been liking Kdenlive a lot since i have tried it out the last few days as a new user. But i do feel like a few small things added would really boost Kdenlive and its usage especially from the professional creative crowd.
-HDR Color Grading Mode for open source as a standard or an encode. HDR400,HDR700, HDR1k or something like that. Maybe even have HDR Mode and it being able to preview with HDR on and off to see the difference especially on an HDR screen.
-2D Masks,shapes that can composite multiple layers from drawing a shape or making a predefined shape from a shape layer
-Masking out one layer or to hide it from an invisible layer mask
-2D Motion graphics- Stroke paths, etc etc
-Blend Modes
-Being able to draw on screen for certain effects.
-Open Source Plug-Ins.
This would be great. After Effects and its 2D Motion Effects, Masks, along with it’s HDR color grading is the only thing keeping me tied to Windows and also away from video editors overall as there is nobody working on this. I have zero expectations for anything 3D Motion related, as i can do this with Blender and its simple enough for my needs. Hopefully some people on the team can read this and send this constructive criticism over to the open sourced video editing community or come up with it themselves.
Thanks for reading
John Cam.
Hi John,
Some of those already exists:
Masking can be done with the Rotoscoping tool: https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Effects/Alpha_manipulation/Rotoscoping
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rPQWOGDng-Q
Blend modes also exist. A tutorial using overlays can be found here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=a6ad372oxEw
Thank you for responding back. I may have been a bit hasty because it is not always as simple as i am transitioning from one program to the next. But i am glad you are taking the criticisms and are listening.
I would like to add to John Cam’s wishes a real Speed Ramp effect. Currently, the only workaround is to split the clip in many parts and apply the speed effect with different setting manually; which is lot of work.
SlowmoVideo can do Speed Ramp and since it’s on a GNU GPL license (and we have the source code), could it be possible to integrate it into kdenlive?
Thanks.
Speed ramp is a known feature people like. The problem is the integration as Kdenlive relay on MLT and MLT has no way to implement speed ramp. Yes, Slowmo can do that but integration is not easy as well.
Is it possible to implement maybe nodes to do this? And use a tilt thing like blender does?
Couldn´t you just add keyframes to the speed filter? That would perfectly solve the speed Ramp issue and both is already available, just not combined. Some effects a keyframeable, so I would assume (I´m not a programmer) it shouldn´t be too difficult to make the speed effect keyframable.
Well I have the latest upgrade and can’t get anything done because it continues to freeze. I’d really like to request you stop upgrading things unnecessarily for us. It was working quite fine. Really, really, really didn’t need an upgrade and I see you guys don’t care what you put us through in our work projects for the sake of pushing the envelope to improve what was just fine.
Sorry to hear that. If you are on Linux do you use the appimage or the PPA from this page? If not, please download it. We see that the updates coming from distributor have sometimes missing libraries (like FFMPEG) which leads to crashes.
Yeah, so it was never crashing in the last version prior to 20.04.01, no need for this upgrade. You guys ruined my project plans with this ridiculous upgrade that wasn’t needed whatsoever. Your software was so great and perfect and you always have to do these things to ruin a good thing. Just leave it be, it was a really great program and you turned it into Bill Gates beta testing on we guinea pigs now. I’m skipping a donation cycle.
Hi, could you try to delete your .config files s described here: https://community.kde.org/Kdenlive/Configuration
Also try using the AppImage if you are not already.
If nothing solves your issue then please share your files so we can try to debug and fix your issue.
Sorry you had a hard time. The team is doing their best to provide a greater software with every release.
Go back to the last 19 series version, it works, but crashes a lot. Doesn’t have
near the problems of the new version.
Where can I download older stable versions … this new version is tedious to use. The problem with the proxies and the library make it unusable …
Here: https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/
Hello,
Where can I find the source ? I prefer compiling the code, I see that all releases have disappeared from github
Tried to install the latest build 20.04.1on Win 10. Installation was done in a jiffy. When I tried to start the application it stopped working. Unfortunately, I could not use it. What could be the cause??
Thanks very much. I hope I can help you with money. I have a suggestion. You should make “crop, scale, tilt” effect visible in the project monitor like “position and zoom” effect and “transform” effect. Also, we need something like “mask effect” to make the effects appear in specific places in the video.
Hello, my English level is limited, if there is improper expression, please understand that
kdenlive has been used for several years, but for several years, I often import more than
100 fragments, but it often crashes. All imported from the project box to the timeline, it
often crashes and dies. In this time period, it is often wasted in more than 1,2 hours.
After a few years, it is still the same.
I am a manjaro system, 16G memory
Please try with the AppImage.
I have been using appimape for almost a year or two, but it has not been improved. Recently, I am going to complete a project, importing more than 100 clips, and frequently crashing. It has not been imported for more than 3 hours. It is also necessary to import more than 100 clips from the project box at a time, which is a frequent crash. I’m about to collapse
I have gtx 780 and a spare gt 710 card. Both cards have NVENC and CUDA, but KDEnlive cannot see these processors. Does your program support hardware encoding?
And generally a nice program.
No, hardware acceleration is not supported so far. It’s on the To Do list.
I feel you are on the right path. Thank you! It’s geting better!
(Windows 10 x64 i7 3770 GT 1030 8GB, Kdenlive 20.04.1)
When I move some timeline clips down to another video track, Kdenlive immediately crashes, even after clearing the appdata/local folder and reinstalling.
It seems similar to “Fix crash trying to move timeline clip to another track when bin clip had some effects” but I am still experiencing it.
It was working fine yesterday.
I’m sure you know all about this:-
I’m using the Windows version of this brilliant program 20.4 but the scroll bar is missing from the bottom of the panel. Will this be fixed in the next release?
I said the scroll bar was missing in the Windows version – very sorry it is there but very very subtle. Apologies.
Thank you for the feedback. This issue is known and tracked here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kdenlive/-/issues/593
I just updated to kdenlive 20.04.2 on two computers. Whenever I try to open a new document it crashes on both of them. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling – no improvement. Suggestions?
20.04.2 has some QT issues. This is why no official release is announced. Please go back to 20.04.1 and use the AppImage.
Kdenlive 20.04.1 will not play or allow me to edit H.264 + HEVC files recorded on a Gopro Hero 8 black. The files were recorded at 60.3 mbit/sec, frame rate 59.94 fps.
Any suggestions on how to resolve this? VLC has no problems playing these files.
There is an issue with MLT which is solved with the upcoming version. Please go back and use 20.04.0 meanwhile.
how to install the motion track effect in version 20.04 of kdenlive, it makes me miss it a lot
how to install the motion track effect in version 20.04.1 of kdenlive, it makes me miss it a lot
kdenlive zoom clip error?
Please make an Android app that helps users to edit video on their smartphones and then transfer those edits to the PC version of Kdenlive..
This would be awesome…🤷
I have used Kdenlive for several years and it was really good, however, when you dropped fire wire capture, it was the end of the line for me, I have a Mini DV camera and firewire was the only way I could capture into Kdenlive, Why on earth did you drop firewire, it was working perfectly, dropping it has left myself and perhaps thousands of people unable to edit home videos, it seems that you could not care less about us, there was not enough thought gone into dropping what was a perfectly good system, I am a pensioner and cannot afford to buy a new camera so I have had to say goodbye to home video editing, I know that there are many people in the same situation and it does not endear them to your system, why did you do this horrible thing to us?.
I’m not sure why fire wire capture was dropped. I capture my mini DV always with a separate program http://www.scenalyzer.com/ (Windows). If you are on Linux download an old Kdenlive version from here https://files.kde.org/kdenlive/release/ just for capturing (as a work around).