Roadmap
This roadmap outlines our current focus and upcoming priorities.
Packed with exciting features, this list isn’t exhaustive. It will evolve with your feedback and new opportunities. Timelines and details may shift as we adapt. Stay tuned for updates!
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Short term
Markers with a time span
Welcome screen
Improve layout handling
Handle layouts on multiple screens and dock widget positions better, allow to save layouts per projects etc.
Multiple resolution projects
Don’t resize image, image sequences or videos when importing.
Subtitle refactoring and enhancement
Advanced Trimming Tools
10bit/12bit Color support
Preview thumbnails for transitions
MSVC compilation support
Allows to publish Kdenlive in the Microsoft Store and better CI testing
Dope sheet
Make it possible to apply keyframes per parameter and adjust UI
GPU Decoding support
Important for playback. Implemented, but needs tweaks in MLT.
Mid term
AI effect integration
External monitor playback (mirrored)
Also allow to have multi-camera and current-camera in different monitors
Audio Routing and Channel Mapping
Also covers submix busses
GPU Effects and Transitions
Allow slow playback speed
Requires adjustments in MLT. Also improve audio with speed change
LV2 and VST support
The backend is ready, but state saving and UI need work
Scripting support
Eg. Python API
Collaborative Editing
Enhance Titler
Either continue the QML approach, but also consider to just write a UI to generate a lottie file
Project Templates
Templates that remember the number / names of tracks, guides, clips in Bin, effects, etc.
Long term
Time remapping improvements
Audio Ducking
RAW footage support
OpenColorIO integration
OpenFX support
Support for hardware interfaces
Color mixer and audio mixer hardware, MIDI controller, Elgato Stream Deck, etc.
Third party integration
Eg. Natron, Blender, Ardour, …
Node-based compositing and effects
Distributed rendering
For render farms and cloud rendering