Kdenlive

We are proud to announce the release of Kdenlive 0.7.8. This new version brings many new features, including improved tools for color correction, improved UI for effects (you can now adjust some transitions and effects directly on the monitor), track ... [More] effects, improved slideshows and a lot more. The development team is also slowly growing, and Kdenlive benefits from the recent improvements in the MLT framework(version 0.5.10 is required) and Frei0r effects(version 1.2.0 is recommended) projects. You can find a detailed list of changes on the Kdenlive 0.7.8 information page. Source code can be downloaded from our sourceforge page, and packages will be announced on our download page when available. Support can be found in our forums and issues reported on our bugtracker. We hope you will enjoy this release! For the Kdenlive team: Jean-Baptiste Mardelle read more [Less]

In my previous post I’ve introduced the Histogram that will be available in kdenlive 0.7.8. Next in the list of the Color Scopes I added are two closely related scopes: Waveform and RGB Parade. Both of them do the same, Waveform for Luma, RGB Parade ... [More] for the RGB components. Therefore I will not always explicitly point out that properties hold for both scopes and speak of Waveform only. More in the full article » read more [Less]

In previous versions of Kdenlive in some effects like pan & zoom and in the transitions Affine and Composite you had this little red rectangle to modify size and position. For 0.7.8 I tried to make editing this type of parameter more convenient ... [More] and efficient: All the options previously available but hidden do now take most space in the effect stack. The red rectangle disappeared therefore you can now drag and resize your item directly on the monitor. Find out more in my blog post on "On-Monitor" Effects [Less]

A new feature introduced in Kdenlive is track effects. There are several situations where this can be useful, for example: You want to make a black and white movie You need to correct the audio balance of all your clips So now, with Kdenlive 0.7.8 ... [More] , instead of applying the effect to all clips in timeline, you can simply add the effect to the track, and all clips in that track will have the effect applied. To apply an effect on a track, just drag & drop an effect from the Effect list widget to your track header (see screenshot on the left). You can then adjust your effect settings just like usual (but note that because we had not enough time, keyframes are not yet supported on track effects). Read more in the full article … read more [Less]

We added some basic audio channel manipulations. We have had a Mono to stereo, which basically copied the left channel to the right. This was expanded to allow copying right-to-left. In addition, now you can swap the left and right channels to correct stereo inversion using Swap channels. Read more in the full article … read more

In addition to my work on MLT, I helped to add some things to Kdenlive. One of them is improvements in the Slideshow Clip. A lot of work to make this possible within MLT happened over the course of the year. The two main additions are: Center crop and Animation. Read more in the full article … read more

With kdenlive 0.7.8 (planned release date: Sept 13) I added some color scopes, used for displaying color information. In this section I will give a brief overviews over scopes in general and explain the most basic scope, the histogram, in detail. ... [More] Color correction. This is a really important topic in video editing. It starts with simple stretching of the tonal range if the brightness is not ideal, goes on with white balance to ensure that white remains white and not blue, and finally ends with creating looks which make your video look unique. (Remember the blueish Minority Report? The contrasty The Departed?) For color correction we basically need two things, Effects for changing the colors and Scopes for monitoring the changes. The first scope I'm showing now is, as already mentioned, the histogram: Read more in the full article … read more [Less]

We are now preparing the Kdenlive 0.7.8 release which should be ready around the 13th of september 2010. A lot of issues were fixed and several new features were added. You can see the list of issues in our 0.7.8 presentation page. In the next days ... [More] , we will blog about the new features, so that you can discover what is waiting for you on the release day! Everyone running the svn development version is encouraged to test Kdenlive and report issues on our bugtracker so that we fix a maximum of bugs for this release. For the Kdenlive team, Jean-Baptiste Mardelle [Less]

We are glad to announce the release of Kdenlive 0.7.6, 3 months after the 0.7.5 version. Many crashes related to effects, transitions, and timeline corruption issues were fixed, and the latest MLT version (0.4.6) that is used for this Kdenlive ... [More] release also provides an improved stability, so we encourage all our users to upgrade. The list of fixed issues can be found on our bugtracker: http://www.kdenlive.org/mantis/changelog_page.php?version_id=11 The new features are: Title module: rewrite, now allows for basic animation (title zoom & scroll) Track rename: users can now rename tracks Composite transition: keyframes can now be moved Clip management: image and audio clips are automatically monitored and updated in the timeline whenever they change on disk User interface cleanup: cleaner look for timeline read more [Less]

We are glad to announce the release of Kdenlive version 0.7.5. A new version of MLT (0.4.4) was also released today, all users are encouraged to upgrade to these new versions. For this release, we concentrated on bug fixing and we hope that users ... [More] will feel more comfortable with Kdenlive as it becomes more stable. You can find more informations on the new feature in our "Discover Kdenlive 0.7.5" page. A complete changelog of the fixed issues can be found on our bugtracker. As usual, you can download the Kdenlive sources from our sourceforge page (see compilation instructions), updated packages for your distros should be available in a few days. read more [Less]