Kdenlive features

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Contents 1 General description 2 Compatibility 3 Video 4 Audio 5 Formats, Rendering and Capture 6 User interface and usability

General description

Kdenlive! (pronounced Kay-den-live) is a Non-Linear Video Editing Suite for KDE. It is released under the GNU Public License. The project was initially started by Jason Wood in 2002, and is now maintained by a small team of developers. Kdenlive aims to become the most advanced non-linear video editor under GNU/Linux.

Kdenlive is currently under heavy development. Here are some features offered by Kdenlive 0.4 svn development version:

Compatibility

• DV video editing
• HDV video editing (In progress. You can import HDV clips, but they are converted to DV resolution)
• Support for PAL or NTSC projects (4:3 and 16:9)

Video

• Unlimited number of video tracks
• Add/remove video tracks
• List of video effects
• Basic video transitions:
  • Crossfade
  • Wipe
  • Picture in picture
  • Push
• DV quality editing
• Dual video monitors, both capable of playback
• Resize, move and cut an unlimited number of clips of any length
• Create color, image and text clips
• Automatic creation of slideshow (with crossfade) from an image folder
• Virtual clips, allows user to create clones of a timeline zone
• Kdenlive projects can be inserted in timeline like a normal clip

Audio

• Unlimited number of audio tracks
• Add/remove audio tracks
• Audio mixing of all tracks
• Audio thumbnails (needs MLT cvs > 29 sept. 06)
• List of available audio effects

Formats, Rendering and Capture

• Kdenlive uses MLT video rendering engine to display and manipulate video clips.
• Can read raw DV, AVI DV, jpeg, gif, png, mpeg, wav, mp3, ogg, vob, wmv, flv, ... (all formats supported by ffmpeg should work)
• You can capture DV video from a firewire device (needs dvgrab)
• Can export your movie to various formats: DV, DV AVI, RAW DV, Quicktime, Flash, PAL/NTSC DVD, Mpeg, Mpeg4, Real Video, Mp3, Vorbis or WAV.
• Non blocking rendering
• DVD wizard, lets you create a simple DVD with basic menu in a few clicks

User interface and usability

• A lot of handy keyboard shortcuts (completely configurable via dialog)
• Complete timeline, with a lot of cool tools to edit your movies. HINT: Try the razor tool!
• You can completely rearrange and save 4 different layouts to fit your needs
• Playback control:
  • Play forward AND backward, pause (via JKL keys)
  • Stop (revert to last starting point)
  • Play selection
  • Loop selection
• Auto scroll timeline while playing
• Autoload last project
• Drag-n-Drop compatability with external programs, such as Konqueror and Noatun.
• Project management: you can create folders to sort your clips
• Add comments to clip markers
• Display all comments on timeline
• Timeline guides (kind of magnetic navigation bookmarks)
• Snap to:
  • frames
  • border
  • marker
  • guides
• Zoom control:
  • Zoom in/out
  • Restore last used zoom factor
  • Fit to page with
• Copy & Paste clips in timeline
• Create virtual clips
• User can create AND share their own video transitions and wipes
• ...

to be continued ...