Promising to be more stable and feature-filled, the Linux video editor Kdenlive has a massive new release out.
While Kdenlive 20.08 comes with a number of new features, they also went through something of a major refactor of the project files. This should fix the long standing issue with comma/point conflicting which caused a number of crashes. As a result, projects are not backwards compatible - so make backups if you're going to test the latest version. Additionally there's a performance boost with audio thumbnail generation as well as JPG image sequence playback.
As for new features? It's big. There's entirely new UI layouts, support for multiple audio streams, new cache data management to make it easier to clean up and save some space, a zoom ability on the effects panel making adjusting keyframes much easier, same with the clip monitor and much more.
Pictured: the new "Editing" interface preset.
The new default interfaces are:
- Logging for reviewing your footage
- Editing to compose your story in the timeline
- Audio for mixing and adjusting your audio
- Effects for adding effects
- Color for adjusting and color grading
Quite useful, although Kdenlive's UI remains nicely configurable, so you can add/remove and adjust the size of any panels as and when you need them. With the newer defaults though, it gives it that little bit more of a polished and professional feel to it while also bringing attention to the existing layout feature.
See the release announcement here, they supply an AppImage so you should be able to use it across almost any Linux distribution without much fuss.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
Quoting: dorronweird...just upgraded kdenlive to this new version and suddenly steam is broken. Any ideas?
Fizx it pull in new versions of libraries?
Quoting: EikeI think it's hard to see what might be difficult about something as soon as you are used to it. I'm seeing the same effect with many computer things myself, where I wonder how things can be done wrong...
Yeah, you're right of course. But let me tell you that when I did my last tryout of various video editors for Linux - albeit it's some years ago - I did encounter a lot of real shitty user interfaces on even the most limited editors. So it may not be all your fault :)
Quoting: PhiladelphusI think you can do what you're asking by clicking and dragging a correction from the effect menu to the little boxes to the left of the various channels (where it says by default "Video 1", "Audio 1", "Video 2", etc.). For instance I usually apply a Normalize effect to my voice audio channel as my dynamic range while narrating videos is annoyingly large
AHA! See, I THOUGHT it was so damn weird that I couldn't do an effect on an entire channel, as I said in the first post, I suspected they've hid it well. As indeed now seems to be the case.
Thanks a bunch for this!
Is this still the case or have they finally made some of their software standalone?
Mountain Man Aug 18, 2020
Quoting: BeamboomFifty clips along the timeline, you want to nudge the contrast a little... Good luck with that. You need to have a very strong will on wanting to see this as an adequate solution to find this to be a good alternative. :)To be honest, I can't think of many situations where I would want to add the exact same color or contrast effect to an entire timeline since raw footage can often differ in quality to one degree or another, so I would want to tweak each shot individually in order to maintain consistency. But I suppose this would differ from project to project.
Mountain Man Aug 18, 2020
Quoting: PhiladelphusI think you can do what you're asking by clicking and dragging a correction from the effect menu to the little boxes to the left of the various channels (where it says by default "Video 1", "Audio 1", "Video 2", etc.).Good tip.
Philadelphus Aug 19, 2020
Quoting: BeamboomAHA! See, I THOUGHT it was so damn weird that I couldn't do an effect on an entire channel, as I said in the first post, I suspected they've hid it well. As indeed now seems to be the case.No problem, happy to help.
Thanks a bunch for this!
Quoting: Mountain ManTo be honest, I can't think of many situations where I would want to add the exact same color or contrast effect to an entire timeline since raw footage can often differ in quality to one degree or another, so I would want to tweak each shot individually in order to maintain consistency. But I suppose this would differ from project to project.
One camera productions, shorter clips/scenes, this could very much be wanted. Or if you have each camera/source on each their channels.
But there's also quite common that you would want to apply a change to the whole production for artistic/stylistic reasons. For example add a tint/shade, or colour balance or some other filter/effect.
So it is an obvious feature of a pro video editor. And, as it was now discovered, so do KDEnlive :)
Mountain Man Aug 20, 2020
Quoting: BeamboomNo, I agree it's a feature that some people would use, but I personally never would. I did a project a couple years ago that was several hundred shots, and I tuned each one individually (primarily fixing white balance) to maintain a consistent look across the entire piece. There's no way I could have used a "one size fits all" effect for it.Quoting: Mountain ManTo be honest, I can't think of many situations where I would want to add the exact same color or contrast effect to an entire timeline since raw footage can often differ in quality to one degree or another, so I would want to tweak each shot individually in order to maintain consistency. But I suppose this would differ from project to project.One camera productions, shorter clips/scenes, this could very much be wanted. Or if you have each camera/source on each their channels.
But there's also quite common that you would want to apply a change to the whole production for artistic/stylistic reasons. For example add a tint/shade, or colour balance or some other filter/effect.
So it is an obvious feature of a pro video editor. And, as it was now discovered, so do KDEnlive :)
Last edited by Mountain Man on 20 August 2020 at 9:16 pm UTC
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