Kdenlive (;

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for ''KDE

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'') is a free and open-source

video editing software Video editing software, or a video editor is software used performing the post-production video editing of digital video sequences on a non-linear editing system. It has replaced traditional flatbed celluloid film editing tools and analog video ...

based on the MLT Framework,

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and Qt. The project was started by Jason Wood in 2002, and is now maintained by a small team of developers. With the release of Kdenlive 15.04.0 in 2015 it became part of the official

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suite. Kdenlive packages are freely available for

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, FreeBSD, and Microsoft Windows. As a whole it is distributed under the GPL-3.0-or-later license, while parts of the source code are available under different licenses such as GPL-2.0-or-later and GPL-3.0-or-later.

History

The project was initially started by Jason Wood in 2002. The development of Kdenlive moved on from the

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version (which wasn't originally made for MLT) to

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, with an almost complete rewrite. This was completed with Kdenlive 0.7, released on 12 November 2008. Kdenlive 0.9.10 released on 1 October 2014 was the last KDE 4 release. Kdenlive started to plan a move into the

and its infrastructure in 2014. Port to

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was finished with the release of 2015.04.0 as part of KDE Applications 5. The move to KDE is ongoing. In early 2017 the development team started working on a

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of the program, and by June 2017 a first preview was available. By December 2017 the refactoring became the main focus of the development team with the release of the first usable preview. Release of the refactoring version was originally planned for August 2018 in the KDE 18.08 Applications release. The refactored version of Kdenlive was released on 22 April 2019 in the KDE 19.04 Applications release. On 20 September 2022, KDE began the first fundraising drive for Kdenlive, with the funds to be used to implement major features and bring Kdenlive up to the standards of more professional video editors. By 18 October 2022, the initial goal of €15,000 had been met.

Features

KDE's Kdenlive makes use of MLT, Frei0r effects,

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and LADSPA libraries. Kdenlive supports all of the formats supported by

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(such as QuickTime, AVI,

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, and

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, among others), and also supports 4:3 and 16:9 aspect ratios for both

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and various HD standards, including

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and

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. Video can also be exported to DV devices, or written to a

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with chapters and a simple menu. * Multi-track editing with a timeline and supports an unlimited number of video and audio tracks. * A built-in title editor and tools to create, move, crop and delete video clips, audio clips, text clips and image clips. * Ability to add custom

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and transitions. * A wide range of effects and transitions.

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capabilities include normalization, phase and pitch shifting, limiting, volume adjustment, reverb and equalization filters as well as others.

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include options for masking, blue-screen, distortions, rotations, colour tools, blurring, obscuring and others. * Configurable

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s and interface layouts. * Rendering is done using a separate non-blocking

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so it can be stopped, paused and restarted. * Kdenlive also provides a script called the Kdenlive Builder Wizard (KBW) that compiles the latest developer version of the software and its main dependencies from source, to allow users to try to test new features and report problems on the bug tracker. * Project files are stored in

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format. * An archiving feature allows

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a project among all assets into a single folder or compressed archive. *Built-in audio mixer

References

External links

* {{Video editors Free and open-source video-editing software KDE Applications Software that uses FFmpeg Video editing software Video software that uses Qt Video editing software for Linux Video editing software for Windows

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