The second release of the 21.08 series is out with a polishing galore throughout all Kdenlive components. Compositing highlights include added align parameters to the Composite interface, fixing line artifacts affecting the Slide composition, compositions display correctly on clips with same track transitions, Transform and Composite & Transform compositions adjust properly to frame size. Fade to Alpha effect is fixed. The Color picker now works properly when using multiple screens and the color display in the monitors is now accurate. Under the hood improvements include the crash detection and recovery system has been improved, fix Stabilize and Scene Detection jobs, removed noise when opening a project, don’t allow importing of project cache folders and always use UTF8 encoding when writing files.
Full log
- Fix remove space in all tracks with locked tracks. Commit.
- Fix spacer track sometimes not allowing to reduce space. Commit.
- Drop MLT’s composite transition for Slide transition. Commit.
- Remove broken “duplicate bin clip with timeremap” stuff that caused crash dropping playlists in timeline. Commit. Fixes bug #441777
- Fix color picker in multiscreen config. Commit.
- Fix monitor zoom affecting titler background frame. Commit.
- Ensure we always use UTF-8 enconding when writing files. Commit.
- Startup crash detection: make the check later so that we can also detect movit crash and propose to reset the config file. Commit.
- When editing / creating a render profile, focus the edited profile on save. Commit.
- Filter tasks: fix encoding issue breaking job (stabilize, motion tracker). Commit.
- Improve color accuracy of preview (backported from Shotcut). Commit.
- Fix fake rect parameter not updating monitor overlay (alhpashape, corners) when changing value in effect stack. Commit.
- Fix adjust to frame size option in transform/position & zoom compositions. Commit.
- Fix color picker incorrectly selecting a rect zone after first use. Commit.
- Fix compositions hidden when top clip had a same track transition. Commit.
- Fix same track transition erratic resize. Commit.
- Fix possible crash on incorrect active effect. Commit.
- Move avfilter_loudnorm.xml to the correct place (avfilter dir). Commit.
- Clear effect xmls by moving frei0r into a seperate folder. Commit.
- Multitrack view: Fix scaling in some cases eg. with rotoscoping. Commit.
- “Composite” composition: add align parameters to UI. Commit.
- Don’t show time remapping dock by default. Commit.
- Ensure bin audio thumbnails are loaded on project open. Commit.
- Fix title widget background frame not showing up. Commit.
- Crop effect: use project resolution by default(solves proxy issue). Commit. Fixes bug #408235
- Fix bug and crash in keyframe apply value to selected keyframes. Commit.
- Fix fade to alpha broken with MLT-7. Commit.
- Fix “gpstext” effect default value. Commit.
- Update mask_start_frei0r_select0r.xml. Commit.
- Update CMakeLists.txt. Commit.
- Uploaded gpstext.xml. Commit.
- Update kdenliveeffectscategory.rc. Commit.
- Update kdenliveeffectscategory.rc. Commit.
- Update mask_start_frei0r_select0r.xml. Commit.
- Update blacklisted_effects.txt. Commit.
- Hide mask_start (unusable as a standalone effect). Commit.
- Add a mask_start version of frei0r.select0r for secondar color. Commit.
- Fix crash when dropping audio/video only from monitor to bin. Commit.
- Fix undo effect change was restoring incorrect parameter. Commit.
- Fix scene detection job (should now work on Windows). Commit.
- Don’t allow importing a project cache folder (audio/video thumbs, proxy,…). Commit.
- Fix render name incorrectly kept in some cases after save as. Commit.
- Fix paste position when mouse is over subtitle track. Commit.
- Fix crash on pasting grouped subtitle. Commit. Fixes bug #439524
- Fix noise when setting producer (e.g. when opening a project). Commit. Fixes bug #433847
Thanks & Congratulations!
It is very obvious that kdenlive is a well maintained and lively project – probably one of the finest programs in the whole KDE world. I would put it in the same league as DigiKam and KStars.
I look forward to test it out for my next project!
Se agradece, y mucho, la mejora constante.
Gracias, de corazón.
Thank you very much for the updates. Your work is amazing. However, video stabilization has not yet returned to work.
고마워요 ~~
Thank you for that release!
Gradually, it’s getting better and better.
Gimana cara menampilkan menu2 di KDENLIVE seperti menu tool, setting dan sebagainya.
ctrl + m
Thank you for updates! I have a question. When we can use different types of fonts in subtitle, place the subtitle in the middle not bottom only?
This is expected but no ETA yet unfortunately.
Am I the onlyone having problem with transition when rendering the file?
Can you detail what your issue is? Maybe contact the community in Telegram/Matrix to help you debug this or open an issue please.
Great update!
But… its been sometime now, so I gotta ask again: When will windows get Video rendering? I’ve had to render some big projects(stream vods of over 4 hours in 1080p, on my ryzen 5 3600) and it was taking over an hour to do so, even using all my 12 threads.
This is what Farid said this past summer in the Kdenlive 21.08 intro:
(MLT7 sets the foundation for long awaited features like GPU processing, multicore support and improved color management to name a few, all expected in MLT8.).
So, technically, we have to wait for MLT 8.0 to see an improved GPU processing. But the bad news here is the development pace of mlt framework is pretty slow (compared to kdenlive).
For what I can see in the mlt news feed, v.6.0.0. went out in Feb. 17, 2016, and v.7.0.0 went out in May 2, 2021. So, more than 5 years have passed between those 2 versions. Does this mean we have to wait another 5 years to see v.8.0.0 (2026-2027) ??? I hope not, and maybe development will be accelerated.
I’m not ranting anything here. It’s only pure observation.
Future will tell.
To be fair, MLT already supports multithread for long, with regularly improvements. The problem is that some plugins (not MLT codebase) are not thread safe and make the result to be corrupted by artifacts or crashing, so for that reason we don’t enable it by default (but you can try in preferences).
Regarding GPU processing (effects, transitions/compositions), MLT can use movit library, but it is not shipped on all platforms, and disabled by default as it used to crash often. There have been some progress since we made that choice…
In both cases, we would need extensive testing of every effect in various situations (scaling, rates…) to allow use of safe effects and maybe fix the others.
But focusing on multi-threaded or GPU image processing may not be the best approach to shorten render times : in many cases it’s actually encoding that is slow.
Then good news: we already have GPU encoding profiles ready, using libVA (Intel/AMD) or nvenc (NVidia).
Again, the FFmpeg builds that are shipped do not always built with these codecs: on windows it’s the 1st time we try to include it.
So please test and let us know if you find tricks that work well!
Those are some great news! I’ll more than gladly give it a try as soon as possible and come back with feedback. Thanks a lot for the message!
Interesting. Thank for this info.
It’s a work in progress. We’ll keep in touch.
I would kindly ask the development team to put the checksum of the files on the download page. If possible, also put some torrent link.
Thank you so much for all your work! I love kdenlive.
Curious if anyone else if having problems with video fade in/out? Doesn’t seem to render either in preview or render.
I am using ubuntu 21.10 with:
kdenlive 21.08.2
melt-7 7.0.1
FFmpeg libraries
Please consider to open a bug report: https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/
You’re right. Fade in and Fade out don’t work on my 21.08.2 AppImage.
BUT, they are working great on Daily builds (Build #1058, Oct 15).
Function pan and zoom not work in this version… 🙁
Please consider to open a bug report https://kdenlive.org/en/bug-reports/
Version Kdenlive 21.08.2 does not behave normally – it does not behave at all – it is practically impossible to use it – each edit – subtitles, film cutting adding a coloured background, overwrite files – ends with the program being turned off or the program crashing, possibly incorrect editing – one word – version Kdenlive 21.08.2 standalone does not work on Windows 10 Home 64 bit, Version 21H1, OS build 19043.1288
Mmh, it’s difficult to say what happen. I tested on a HP laptop with Win10 21H1, build 19043.1288 and cutting clips and subtitle cut works as expected. Clip adding to the timeline works as well. Try to start Kdenlive as administrator. Maybe it’s a file access issue. Do you have updated your graphic card driver? Or reset Kdenlive: Help -> reset configuration.
… and what about Fade in & Fade out that don’t work anymore in the 21.08.2 AppImage?
In my humble opinion, they are too widely used to be ignore. But, for what I see, they are working fine in Daily Builds.
Thanks.
Kdenlive 21.08.2 has just landed on Opensuse Tumbleweed today (from the Factory directory) and Fade in/out don’t work neither, as is the case with AppImage. However, I didn’t test the flatpak (and I won’t).
But, I tested it out on my old Windows laptop and they are fading in/out correctly.
In the meantime, I’m on the Daily builds which work fine.
I have returned to Kdenlive after many years, and I have discovered many more functionalities, a more comfortable design and amazing stability. I hope you can keep adding new improvements and functionalities. This video editor has to beat the greats of the industry! Thank you very much for your effort!
Big mistake to upgrade to this version as it has many flaws. Tried installing the daily builds via flatpak but looks to more work that I want to dabble into. Any idea when a new version will be pushed to the ppa? Just hit a stand still with kdenlive at a time when I need to use it.
error: The application org.kde.kdenlive/x86_64/master requires the runtime org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15 which was not found
Thanks in advance. I do love this project and kdenlive is really great!
21.08.3 is scheduled around Nov. 11-12. Meanwhile, why you don’t give a try at Daily Builds but on the AppImage (as I do) instead of flatpak?
@Sylvain thanks for the helpful response. Just download the app installer now everything is working 😉