Kdenlive 15.08: 4 years of maturation, and how to help Free Software to live
Finally it is ready: Kdenlive 15.08 is an important accomplishment!
As usual, you can read a short changelog (below), download the code, try it and report issues and submit patches...
If you follow our news, you might know that this release integrates work started for several years... that just reached a satisfactory state (hopefully :)
- great parts of code have been refactored, an effort discussed in 2011, with a short funded job in 2012, then re-targeted in 2014 (Randa Meetings twice!)
- this now enabled to brings back GPU effects from Movit, demoed in 2014 (FOSDEM)
- and also allowed to experiment many new features, in project bin (like master clip effects) and monitor (split view effect tuning), finalized weeks back (for Akademy)
From this short history you can note that Free Software events mark important milestones in our project evolutions.
Lonely development is unsustainable for a big projects; gathering developers, but also people with broader vision, every time renews motivation, gives new directions, focuses energy.
A cycle is ending, let's boost next one: Randa Meetings 2015 are coming!
We want to be there; we already offer much of our time, please don't let us pay for the travel, and support us through KDE sprints fundraising! That may also help wonderful people on wonderful projects, that would be your good deed for the day/week/... :-D
Kdenlive 15.08.0 information page
Kdenlive 15.08.0 was released with KDE Applications 15.08.0 on 19th of August 2015.
This is a major release containing many changes to the core source, in an effort to cleanup the code.
Major changes
- New file format. Kdenlive can open older project files, but older Kdenlive versions cannot open the new file format.
- Drop SDL support for monitor display, we now use OpenGL - should be supported on all fairly recent computers.
- Improved UI for color correction effects (Sop/Sat)
- It is now possible to add an effect to a Bin clip by dropping the effect on the clip. The effect will then be applied to all instances of this clip in timeline, mostly useful for color correction
- Effect Preview: Clip monitor now has an option to "Compare effect" displaying a customizable split screen to see the clip with and without effect
Missing features
Due to the large refactoring, several features have been disabled, but we hope to re-introduce them as soon as possible. These are:
- Clip generators disabled (countdown, noise, online content search)
- Blackmagic Decklink playback / capture disabled
- Stopmotion Widget disabled
- Check if clips are on a removable device
- Rotoscoping effect broken
Fixed issues
- Bug 349907 "Add image" in title clip editor doesn't show any files
- Bug 350250 (Solved) Title clip: Created Title-Text-Image not visible in Clip- nor Project-Monitor (black Field, no Text)
- Bug 350275 About window in 15.04.3 still refers to the old bugtracker
- Bug 348928 Effects dir wrong
- Bug 348989 Volume effect resets to 0
- Bug 350017 Curves handles are lost when clip is deselected
