Learn Kdenlive
Introduction
Basic information
| ICT Competency | Kdenlive Video editor is generic resource creation tool |
| Educational application and relevance | Working with video, audio, text and image resources. This can be used in digital story telling vities |
| Version | version 16.08.0. |
| Other similar applications | Openshot video editor, Pitivi and advance Lightwork |
| The application on mobiles and tablets | there is many similar application are available in android mobile phones. |
| Development and community help | Official Website |
Overview of features
Kdenlive is an open source video editor. The project was started around 2003. Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It is a free software (GPL licensed) primarily aimed at the Linux platform. Kdenlive is built on Qt and the KDE Frameworks libraries.
- Kdenlive has multi-track editing with a timeline and supports an unlimited number of video and audio tracks.
- 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. Audio effects include normalization, phase and pitch shifting, limiting, volume adjustment, reverb and equalization filters as well as others. Video effects include options for masking, blue-screen, distortions, rotations, colour tools, blurring, obscuring and others.
- Ability to add custom effects and transitions.
- Rendering is done using a separate non-blocking process so it can be stopped, paused and restarted.
- Kdenlive also provides a script called the Kdenlive Builder Wizard (KBW) that compiles the latest developer version of the software and its main dependencies from source, to allow users to try to test new features and report problems on the bug tracker.
Installation
- The application is part of the Ubuntu custom distribution.
- In case you do not find it on your computer, you can install by choosing “kdenlive” in Ubuntu Software Centre
- If you would like to install through the terminal follow these steps below:
- Open terminal by clicking (Ctrl+Alt+T),
- Once Window page is open, in front of dollar($) symbol just type below command.
- sudo apt-get install kdenlive
- Then, just type your ubuntu password(it will not display on your screen), press Enter.
Working with the application
File formats for creation
Saving the file
Export and publishing files
Advanced features
Multi-track video editing - Kdenlive allows you to use and arrange several audio and video tracks, each one can be locked or muted to your convenience.
Configurable interface and shortcuts -You can arrange and save your custom interface layouts to fit your workflow.
Keyboard shortcuts can also be configured to match your preferences.
Many effects and transitions - Dozens of effects are available, ranging from color correction to audio adjustments, as well as all the standard transform options.
Automatic backup - Your project file is automatically backed up every few minutes, and older versions of the project file are also kept in case you need to roll back to a previous version.