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In the next kdenlive version (or in the current SVN version, if you dare compile it yourself :)) you will find a new option for the vectorscope: To draw I/Q lines. What are they good for? Read More

This article is going to give some tips regarding shooting Video with your DSLR and editing it in kdenlive afterwards. Read More

The last scope (after the Histogram and the Waveform and RGB Parade) that is new to kdenlive 0.7.8 is the Vectorscope. This is actually the most interesting scope because it is quite different from the other ones and, secondly, is really useful for Color Grading. Read More

Just wanted to post a screenshot of Kdenlive's current development version that includes a great new feature: a Stop motion utility. The only drawback is that this feature currently depends on a specific hardware to capture from HDMI. So how does it work? Read More

We are proud to announce the release of Kdenlive 0.7.8. This new version brings many new features, including improved tools for color correction, improved UI for effects (you can now adjust some transitions and effects directly on the monitor), track effects, improved slideshows and a lot more. Read More

In my previous post I’ve introduced the Histogram that will be available in kdenlive 0.7.8. Next in the list of the Color Scopes I added are two closely related scopes: Waveform and RGB Parade. Both of them do the same, Waveform for Luma, RGB Parade for the RGB components. Therefore I will not always explicitly point out that properties hold for both scopes and speak of Waveform only. Read More

In previous versions of Kdenlive in some effects like pan & zoom and in the transitions Affine and Composite you had this little red rectangle to modify size and position. For 0.7.8 I tried to make editing this type of parameter more convenient and efficient: All the options previously available but hidden do now take most space in the effect stack. The red rectangle disappeared therefore you can now drag and resize your item directly on the monitor. Read More

A new feature introduced in Kdenlive is track effects. There are several situations where this can be useful, for example: Read More

We added some basic audio channel manipulations. We have had a Mono to stereo, which basically copied the left channel to the right. This was expanded to allow copying right-to-left. In addition, now you can swap the left and right channels to correct stereo inversion using Swap channels. Read More

In addition to my work on MLT, I helped to add some things to Kdenlive. One of them is improvements in the Slideshow Clip. A lot of work to make this possible within MLT happened over the course of the year. The two main additions are: Center crop and Animation. Read More