Kdenlive
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.
License model
- Free • Open Source
Application type
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- BSD
- KDE
- Flathub
- Flatpak
Features
- Visual Editing
- Sync Audio & Video
- Split videos
- Keyframe Animation
- Ad-free
- Watermark free
- Non linear editor
- MultiTrack
- Chroma Key / Green Screen
- Dark Mode
- Add subtitles
- GPU Support
- Realtime filter effects
- Customizable
- Color correction
- No registration required
- Live editing
- Speech to text
- Normalize Volume
- Support for 4K
- Support for MOV files
- Lightweight
- Colour Grading
- Works Offline
- Non Destructive Editing
- Multiple timelines
- Transitions Effects
- Privacy focused
- Extensible by Plugins/Extensions
- Support for Layers
- Hardware Accelerated
- Tabbed interface
- Specific for 64-Bit
- Support for Dance Pad
- Live Screen Recording
- Glitchy effect
- Engagement analytics
Kdenlive News & Activities
Recent News
- POX published news article about Kdenlive
Kdenlive 24.08 released with new effects & transitions, enhanced UI and performance boostsKdenlive has released version 24.08, introducing a range of new features, enhancements, and quality...
- Maoholguin published news article about KDE Plasma
KDE Gear 24.08 released: major enhancements across Dolphin, Konsole, Kdenlive, and moreThe KDE Project has announced the release of KDE Gear 24.08, the latest stable version of its open-...
- POX published news article about Kdenlive
Kdenlive 24.05 introduces multi format rendering, automatic subtitle translation, and moreKdenlive, a free and open source video editor, has released version 24.05. This update reintroduces...
Recent activities
- AdrienVR liked Kdenlive
FoneDog added Kdenlive as alternative to FoneDog Free Video Editor- fosam liked Kdenlive
Kdenlive information
What is Kdenlive?
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.
Comments and Reviews
I'm coming from PowerDirector and Filmora which have only trial, I really like Kdenlive and the tools it has to offer. Pros:
Cons:
Good to know:
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 ;)
Reply written Aug 30, 2018
Not sure when it was added, but Kdenlive has the text feature now.
Reply written Sep 2, 2021
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 :)
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.
Reply written Jun 3, 2016
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.
I'd give it another try. Kdenlive has gotten a huge performance boost in the last 3 years.
Reply written Jan 2, 2023
Kdenlive is great option but he have bugs like when you put transition Kdenlive don't show the transition anothe bug is that he crashed some times and don't save your full progress but save half of the progress. But this program is good and I recommended it.
Free and easy to use if you've ever practiced video editing. Id like to find more templates.
The truth is a software of ups and downs To edit on a PC Potato is the best and light you can find but... As of January 2024 - IT DOES NOT HAVE GPU SUPPORT [Only in Rendering and mostly only nvidia] (although it had an experimental module, it has been practically abandoned for years) Which makes editing HD projects even with only images a pain even on decent machines. The preview is always jerky and the preview or proxy view tends to fail or directly degrade to unwatchable qualities and even then it is not smooth. Although it is at least much more stable than the old versions of Sony Vegas that close randomly. and since it is based on ffmpeg, it has almost unlimited format support (because it does not force you to install Quicktime or third-party programs). It presents a huge number of Bugs regarding Python Dependencies. Bug support is somewhat complicated (It is based on KDE's own platform). The experience varies greatly depending on the version and the latest versions are not always better to use.
I haven't used it a lot, but it's probably the best FOSS video editor on the market.