Kdenlive

Name: Kdenlive
Rating: 3.5 (36 reviews)

Kdenlive is a non linear video editor. It is based on the MLT framework and accepts many audio and video formats, allows you to add effects, transitions and render into the format of your choice.

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KDE

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Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It's free, and open-source and works on GNU/Linux, Windows and BSD. It's an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor compatible with latest video technologies. Most of the video processing is done by the MLT Framework, which relies on many other open source projects like FFmpeg, frei0r, movit, ladspa, sox, etc.
Notable features:
- Multi-track video editing
- Supports all audio and video formats and codecs that FFmpeg does for both input and encoding, including various HD standards, like HDV, DNxHD, AVCHD, ProRes etc.
- Workspaces for each stage of video production; Logging, Editing, Audio, Effects and Color.
- Configurable interface and shortcuts
- Create 2D titles for your projects
- Many effects and transitions
- Keyframeable effects
- Audio and video scopes
- Proxy editing
- Automatic backup project file
- Timeline preview
- Online resources of render profiles, wipes and title templates accessible directly from the interface.

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• Positive comment • more than a year ago • 31 users agree and 3 don't • 1 reply

I'm coming from PowerDirector and Filmora which have only trial, I really like Kdenlive and the tools it has to offer.
Pros:

It works fine on my windows 10 64 bit, i3-4005u (!), SSD and 8GB ram (except for when I use a heavy effects like 'Region', see note about proxy files below)
It has the basic features like transition, basic effects, cutting video and audio
What it does it does good, you can customize the parameters of almost every feature you have
It renders properly

Cons:

The interface isn't that intuitive, it would take you a lot of time to do your first project and figure out how to operate this software
It's built for a multi camera shoot, so if you're just trying to combine a few videos together with transitions between them it'll complicate things a little bit
The transitions don't have a preview, so you need to apply them and check them on your own (and if your computer is slow it's a big drawback), but there's a video on YouTube that shows you that
There's no built feature to add text, you need to create a transparent image (png etc.) and add it to the video

Good to know:

If your computer isn't that powerful it's recommended to check the 'use proxy files' under 'project' >> 'project settings'.
From the transition it's mostly Wipe (with all of it's options), Slide, Fade and Region (if your computer is strong enough) that are useful for a YouTube video all others are all kinds of weird mathematical manipulation on the images (let me know if I left out any useful transition).
If your video is a transition oriented video make sure you do it right, putting the first video one track and the second video on another track so that they overlap a little and then add a transition

jdopen

Hi,
You can preview transitions as long as your 2 photos or videos are into a different track (see https://kdenlive.org/en/project/kdenlive-transitions/). Alas there is no import files with automatic random transition added with one click ala OpenShot.
And there is a "built feature to add text" (see "add title clip" where you add your project files).
See ya ;)

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• Review • more than a year ago • 8 users agree and 3 don't • 0 replies

Buggy on Windows 10, had to delete. Crashes constantly.

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• Positive comment • more than a year ago • 4 users agree • 1 reply

I used Openshot for over half a year. I got tried of it's bugs and crashes.** Why didn't i see this earlier ???** This is so much more awesome and I worked on it for over 2 hours, and it didn't crash or lag even once.
Totally recommend it :)

phonkywright

Have tried KdenLive numerous times over a period of about 12 years and never liked it actually. Decided to give the new version another try and ... YES!
Finally the developers made great progress concerning stability, fairly logic gui/workflow and flexibility.
Meanwhile OpenShot has made great progress as well. Don't know what Linux distribution you're using, maybe it's repositories only support a older version of OpenShot. Recent versions work fine. So at last we have at least 2 pretty useful applications for simple video editing.

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• Negative comment • more than a year ago • 4 users agree • 0 replies

While it is similar to Premiere and is a fairly straight forward video editor, it's not very stable (crashed 3 times though thank God it has an auto recovery option) and it took forever to render out my video only for me to find that it didn't bring in the entire clip so I lost a good 20 minutes of the footage. Not very useful.

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