Kdenlive free open-source non-linear video editor for KDE. Kdenlive is an intuitive and powerful multi-track video editor, including most recent video technologies. It relies on a separate renderer, piave, to handle it’s rendering. Kdenlive is easy to use for all levels of users from novice to advanced video editors. Kdenlive is built upon MLT and ffmpeg frameworks, which provide unique features to mix virtually any kind of media.
Some of the powerful features of Kdenlive include,
Support for a wide range of camcorders and cameras, including:
1. Low resolution camcorder (Raw and AVI DV editing).
2. Mpeg2, mpeg4 and h264 AVCHD (small cameras and camcorders).
3. High resolution camcorder files, including HDV and AVCHD camcorders.
4. Professional camcorders, including XDCAM-HD™ streams, IMX™ (D10) streams, DVCAM (D10) , DVCAM, DVCPRO™, DVCPRO50™ streams and DNxHD™ streams (decoding only, encoding untested). Please note that Kdenlive does not offer the original codecs, but only that we use FFmpeg free software codecs, which can read original streams and sometimes export as well. When you own a camcorder, there is no reason why you should not be able to read your own films.Multitrack edition with a timeline and unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
Video and audio tracks organized in layers.
Tools to create, move, crop and delete video clips, audio clips, text clips and image clips.
Configurable keyboard shortcuts and interface layouts.
A wide range of effects and transitions. Ability to add custome effects and transitions.
Non-blocking rendering using a rendering separate application. Stop, pause and restart rendering. Continue to work on your project without any possible loss of data.Export to standard formats like DV (PAL and NTSC), Mpeg2 (PAL, NTSC and HDV) and AVCHD (HDV), High quality h264, Non-destructive formats.
Mix video, audio and images to unleash your creativity
Mix different media without prior import. Mix any Video, audio or image files supported by Kdenlive with custom profiles including resolutions, frame rates, PAR and DAR.
Support for a wide range of codecs and formats including Mpeg2, mp4 and h264 video, Mp2, mp3 and ac3 audio, Lossless video (SNOW lossless codec, etc), Free video (Ogg vorbis, etc)
Install Kdenlive
Kdenlive requires “ffmpeg, ffplay & recordmydesktop” to support webcam capture and Desktop screen capture. Both these packages are available as 1-click installs from packman. Click the following 1-click installs to install ffmpeg & ffplay and Recordmydesktop before we proceed to install kdenlive.
ffmpeg
Recordmydesktop
Once installed, we can proceed to install kdenlive.
Click this 1-click installer supported on openSUSE 11.0/11.0 from packman to install Kdenlive. This should download the YMP file and automatically launch the YaST package manager to add the required Repositories and download and install Kdelive and the required dependencies. Click next on the Kdenlive installation screen and Next again on the installation proposal window. This should start adding the required repositories, download and install Kdenlive and its required dependencies. Click Finish when the installation completes successfully.
This should install kdenlive under “Applications – Multimedia” as “Video Editor”. Click Video Editor to launch for the first time.
This takes you through a wizard to set your defaults. This can however can be configured later from “Settings – Configure Kdenlive”
Once wizard finishes, kdenlive launches with multiple easy to understand panels. A good explanation is available here at the project website. This page is also a quick start guide for you to get started in less than few minutes.
Lot of effects and addons can be downloaded from “Settings – Download new lumas”
Kdenlive is a real mature video editing software which can be used by anyone from dummies (like me ;-)) to geeky advanced video editors. Click here for the project homepage.
thanks for the info. Will try to use it.
I been waiting for a program like this, but alas it doesn’t appear to work with opensuse 11_64.
I would appreciate info on how to fix or how to report a bug.
@Laurie: I did test it on 11.1 64bit and worked beautifully. What is the error?
The installation completes without any problems.
When running Kdenlive with the installed icon,I get a dialog box with a general & backtrace tab. The short description: The application Kdenlive (Kdenlive) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
I’m not sure what to do with the backtrace button or sending a bug report.
If it helps, my computer has the following:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual core 6000+ CPU
Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 motherboad
MSI Radeon HD3780 video card
WD Caviar 500gb hard drive &
4gb Kingston HyperX DDR2 6400 ram
addition to previous. desktop is KDE 3.5 7 i have saved the backtrace to a file if required.
kdenlive is very promising and can yet be used for basic video editing, but it’s still very buggy and as soon as the timeline become filled it crashes or gives bad result (last time – past week – I had a jerky result – I yet have to find time to report)
jdd (opensuse 11.1)
Indeed kdenlive is very promising and the development made big improvement with version 0.7.1, but I noticed also 2 problems:
1.) Audio output in preview, sometimes I get absolutely no sound, sometimes sound is distorted and something it’s jerky. In the jerky case I can switch off the video in preview and the sound is ok. The same videos are playing without any problems on kaffeine, mplayer or vlc. The rendering output of the video is ok.
All attempts to change audio output configuration are pretty useless. I can’t see any difference between automatic, also, oss, oss with dma and so on.
2.) Stability
This is of course another big point. I noted when I play around with the effects (video and/or), more and more of the widgets from the gui are vanishing, for example the sliders for the adjustment of the effects are gone. Sometimes I could manage to save work before the crash, sometimes not. Anyhow the vanishing of gui elements is safe indicator shortly before the crash. In this cases the crash recovery feature is not working, which means after the restart of kdenlive I don’t get an option to recover the last project.
Nevertheless, kdenlive is a great tool and all developers did a great job.
I use opensuse 11.1 and kdenlive incl. all necessary packages from packman. Concerning the audio trouble, I wish someone can give me clear advice how to deal with all this stuff: ALSA, OSS, Phonon, xine, pulse audio, jack, mlt, sdl and so on. What is absolutly necessary, what is redundant and what is waste.
I could not solve this problem:
Video with many black borders, with 2 different sizes on all boarders, but always changing (20-30 times).
Croped the whole movie with parameters for the bigger and then for the lower borders inoder to merge the two tracks to one without any borders.
It was impossible, because the background of the windows is black and you could not see the remaining black borders on the (black) background.
To be able to configure the windows background to several standard colours would solve this problem (I found no option, generally changing background to white would solve this in most cases – videos from videocapturing show almost ever black borders, sometimes a video with very light colours at the boarder could better be processed by a red, green, .. background).
Merging at B-frames (a problem in avidemux) couldn’t be proved, because of this missing feature and the crashes.
I can confirm Jdd about the low stability of the program, but I hope it will be soon a altinative to avidemux (there missing 2 track editing and sound editing) or cindarella (stability should be here primary work too).
Crashed on my computer as well with signal 11 (SIGSEGV).
openSUSE 11.0 (i586)
Linux 2.6.25.20-0.1-pae i686
KDE 3.5.9 “release 49.1”
video: ATI Radeon X300 (RV370) 5B60 (PCIE)
Processor (CPU): Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Speed: 3,014.57 MHz
Cores: 2
Total memory (RAM): 2.0 GB
Free memory: 262.2 MB (+ 1.4 GB Caches)
Free swap: 2.0 GB
Backtrace available here:
http://www.eyeunit.com/suse/kdenlive.kcrash
I can’t comment on the program at this time, as it will not start.
Kdenlive
Version 0.7.6
Using KDE 4.3.1 (KDE 4.3.1) “release 6” works pretty well so far. I wasn’t able to use the “one-click” version from the web but installed using OpenSuSe 11.2 (x86_64) yast with possibly newer pacman repositories successfully. I am able to view Canon FS200 videos perfectly! Thanks!