Kdenlive 0.9.0 released

Tuesday, 15 May 2012  |  Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

#Release  

Kdenlive 0.9 has just been released. We encourage all users to upgrade to this new version that fixes many small issues and should improve the overall user experience. Some of the new features include:

Improved effects workflow

The effect stack was rewritten to allow adjusting parameters for several effects in one go. Effects can also be grouped, groups can be saved and effects or groups can be dragged and dropped onto another clip

Automatic audio alignment

If you have been working on a scene with several camcorders, Kdenlive can now automatically align the clips in timeline using the audio.

Easy import of online resources

Kdenlive now has an online resource browser that allows you to easily preview and import audio, graphic and video resources from archive.org, freesound audio library and open clip art.

Usability improvements

Many small improvements and bugfixes should make your use of Kdenlive nicer and smoother, for examples:

  • Recording can now be monitored through the audio and color scopes, audio normalization can analyse audio for better results
  • Allow audio only recording
  • Clips can be sorted by date
  • New effects from MLT / frei0r: video stabilizers, IIR Blur, etc
  • Offline editing (Backup the project with proxy clips only to work on less powerful computers)
  • See a more complete changelog below

Get it!

The Kdenlive 0.9 source tarball can be downloaded from the KDE servers: download link.
Binary packages will be announced in our download page

The future

A big thank you to all the people that contributed in one way or another to improve this new version. Some bugfix 0.9.x releases will be made when necessary, but in the background we are working (well mostly Till) on a refactoring to cleanup the code and hope to reach the 1.0 milestone by the end of the year, thanks to the fantastic success of our fundraising campaign.

As usual, users are welcome to join our forums and bugtracker to report problems.

Changes

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 Read more

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.

Full Changelog

Click to see the full changelog (English)

  • 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

  • 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

  • issue #2329 Sort clips by timestamp.

  • issue #2581 Dragging an effect group on an effect duplicates the group's content

  • issue #2551 Improve the french language

  • issue #264 timeline numbers overlap and are chopped off at the top

  • issue #1950 Select all clips of all tracks

  • issue #1949 Select all clips of a track

  • issue #1065 Cannot move clip anymore until restart

  • issue #2499 Loading recent projects freezes interface following recent MLT fix for render failure

  • issue #2516 Crash on startup

  • issue #2515 Slideshow clip "frame duration" blank

  • issue #2503 *** buffer overflow detected ***

  • issue #2468 Zone behaviour not right

  • issue #2502 Crash upon start - openSUSE 12.1-64bit

  • issue #2271 Preview monitor stops display the image

  • issue #2521 Earlier crash event, details forgotten

  • issue #2519 Messages in the status bar are not shown at all when a new message immediately follows

  • issue #2522 Crash while playing

  • issue #2523 new MLT 0.7.8 crash segfault at end of every rendering job

  • issue #2526 pcm_s16le codec not found by kde/MLT with recent versions of FFmpeg

  • issue #2535 kdenlive blocks on opening

  • issue #2543 Usability: Render profile selector confusing when only one profile exists under category.

  • issue #2544 Crash on startup

  • issue #2573 "With track" of composite transition jumps back to auto as soon as parameters are changed

  • issue #2588 Right Hand Mouse Click On Audio Track 2 Box -> CRASH

  • issue #2576 Saved effect group preset are added to a clips existing effect group of the same name

  • issue #2587 Kdenlive git fails to build with Qt< 4.7 [audioCorrelation]

  • issue #2578 adding a saved effects group preset by right clicking on the strip does not work

  • issue #2580 Capitalization of effect and effect group presets' names is not recognized properly

  • issue #2597 Crash

  • issue #2596 Build Kdenlive for Ubuntu 12.04

  • issue #1322 Rendering Option "Selected Zone" renders only the first frame of selected zone

  • issue #2603 Kdenlive fails to build with KDE<4.5

  • issue #2002 Clip zones inserted in the project tree are lost after re-opening project

  • issue #2181 Kdenlive does not render composite clips correctly

  • issue #2388 Loading a lot of HD clips crashes UI after a while.

  • issue #2357 Project does not render video channel on webm

  • issue #2382 Crashes upon startup.

  • issue #2429 Kdenlive crasches

  • issue #2427 mlt from git makes UI crash.

  • issue #2456 Will not start after upgrading version. Crash handler every time.

  • issue #2448 Crash when switching profile

  • issue #2438 Crash after launch

  • issue #2459 Title Clip - change color of selected text object fails

  • issue #2457 Compilation On Debian Squeeze 32bit (KDE 4.4.4) Fails after switch from QJson to Solid

  • issue #2472 Proxies don't get queued automatically.

  • issue #2471 Kdenlive crashes while creating proxies.

  • issue #2465 crash when moving project monitor

  • issue #2473 Image clip duration reverts to 5s after reloading project

  • issue #2480 qt related crash when starting kdenlive

  • issue #2487 Crash after adding a clip