Kdenlive

0.8.2 release marked the time to complete our switch to KDE development infrastructure started in Randa a few months ago. On November 8th our old Subversion repository on SourceForge was discontinued, and we moved on to our new, shiny KDE Git ... [More] repository! There are at least a couple of differences you - especially developers and translators - should be informed about. Development workflow. Git offers many features that Subversion doesn't. Thus, we're defining a workflow to guide development which will hopefully improve stability in next releases. We'll have it documented quite soon. Translations. Kdenlive translations are not stored anymore into its sources: they're now in KDE l10n module. Should you want to work on them, you'll have to get in touch with your translation team. Also - this is mostly for packagers -, we'll write a script to automatically fetch translations and populate appropriate directories for tarball releasing. Again, our documentation will be properly updated. As a KDE project, Kdenlive is now open to a wide developer ecosystem. Just as we don't want to loose any active developer (get a KDE Git account!), we would be happy to welcome new members, occasional contributors and new translators to our team, maybe among those already committed to KDE. The road to Kdenlive is much shorter now, don't play hard to get! ;) read more [Less]

We are proud to announce the immediate release of Kdenlive 0.8.2. We encourage all users to upgrade. For this release, we did put a lot of energy into bug fixing and stability (more than 140 issues solved) to bring you a better editing experience. We ... [More] have solved a lot of project corruption issues, and the introduction of the automatic backup feature means you should hopefully enjoy Kdenlive better than ever! Among the features improvements, the proxy clips (clips replacing the original ones when editing a format that is too slow to edit, for example AVCHD) should work fine now, HDMI capture should also be improved (feedback welcome) and some GUI multi threading should make operations a bit smoother. As usual, we also benefit from the latest improvements in MLT, a new version (0.7.6) was released today that improves stability and fixes important issues for users of non english locale. We are also getting closer to the KDE community, and the first step was to start a documentation effort, which means Kdenlive is now distributed with a "Quick Start Guide" that should show you the basic steps to start working in Kdenlive. This help is also available and editable online on the KDE Userbase Wiki. For a detailed list of changes, see our Kdenlive 0.8.2 information page. And since we want Kdenlive everywhere, you can now also follow us on Facebook, Twitter, identi.ca. A big thank you to all the developers, translators and users who helped to make this great release. Source code can be downloaded from our sourceforge page, and packages will be announced as usual on our download page when available. Support can be found in our forums and issues reported on our bugtracker. read more [Less]

The release of Kdenlive 0.8.2 was slighlty delayed due to the discovery of a blocking issue that required last minute changes in MLT and Kdenlive. I want to make sure that those changes don't cause regressions, so the idea is to ask users to test ... [More] the latest Kdenlive development version (available for Ubuntu users on sunab's experimental repository). I am especially concerned about problems occuring when opening old Kdenlive project files. Once we have some feedback and manage to fix a few remaining issues, we will release Kdenlive 0.8.2, which should hopefully happen around the 13th of august. We are now in string freeze, so if you are interested to help translating Kdenlive in your language, get involved. More informations about the changes in the soon to be released 0.8.2 version can be found on the Kdenlive 0.8.2 information page. After that release, we will be moving to KDE's infrastructure to be part of KDE multimedia, and work on the refactoring branch to clean up the code and make it easier to understand / maintain / contribute. For the Kdenlive team, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle read more [Less]

While working hard in Randa, I implemented a feature that will make everyone happy: automatic backup of your project file! We had a few reports on the forum of broken project files that were not recoverable. This is not a frequent issue, but losing ... [More] all the work you have done on a video editing project is not fun! So after a short discussion with the Kdenlive team, here it is! With this feature, every time you save your project file, instead of overwriting the existing version, it will create a dated backup of the previous version. In the Project menu, you will now have an Open Backup File entry that will bring up the dialog pictured here. In the backup dialog, you see a list of all backuped versions of your project file with a nice screenshot of the timeline at the time the backup was made. You can then open any of the backup file to recover a previous version. This is in svn and will be part of the next Kdenlive release. A big thank you to all the people who made the Randa Sprint possible and so enjoyable! read more [Less]

At the moment nearly the whole Kdenlive team is hacking in Randa, Switzerland, at the KDE Sprint 2011. Don’t believe it? Here is the proof: (From left to right, ttill, xzhayon, j-b-m, Granjow.) So, as you can see, we are totally busy coding and ... [More] writing the manual. The main activities are: Big refactoring which will improve our code base in terms of maintainability and (for new coders) readability. We created a new branch for the refactoring. When refactoring is complete, we should also be able to write some automated tests. User manual; we are now definitely moving to KDE Userbase which is based on MediaWiki (you all know this from Wikipedia). It will also simplify translation. The first version of the Quickstart tutorial is already online. GIT will be our new version control system at KDE multimedia. That’s it so far! We’ll go back coding now.— Your Kdenlive developers read more [Less]

Several Kdenlive developers will meet in the next days in Randa (which will host a big KDE sprint) to exchange ideas and discuss about Kdenlive's evolution. I hope that we will come up with some great ideas, we will keep you informed! Jean-Baptiste Mardelle

We are proud to announce the release of Kdenlive 0.8. This new version brings several new features, including improved UI, proxy clips, audio monitoring, HDMI output, new effects and more. As usual, Kdenlive benefits from the recent improvements in ... [More] the MLT framework(version 0.7 is required) and Frei0r effects(version 1.3 is recommended) projects. You can find a detailed list of changes on the Kdenlive 0.8 information page. Source code can be downloaded from our sourceforge page, and packages will be announced on our download page when available. read more [Less]

Another filter/effect to be introduced with Kdenlive 0.8 and MLT 0.7: read more » read more

Again, this is only relevant for you if you compiled ffmpeg yourself. ffmpeg has moved to http://www.libav.org/ — together with the git repository. The new remote can be set with: git remote set-url origin 'git://git.libav.org/libav'

Following "Pan and Zoom" in our last release in Kdenlive 0.8 there will be a new GUI for the Corners effect, unleashing its real power: read more » read more