Flowblade, free open-source non-linear video editor, announced new 2.18 feature release today!

The new release introduced Credits Scroll Generator, allowing to add animated texts with scrolling or paging effects, like the list of names involved in making a film or TV show. And, text presentation and layout changes are controlled using a bit of MarkDown inspired markup.

The release also renamed Hex Colors generator to Color Polygons, which also added support creating square and triangle shapes. And Multiline Animation generator has been updated with new Lines Solid from Left and Lines Solid from Right background types.

With Flowblade 2.18, it’s now easy to slow down, speed up, or reverse video clip playback. Simply right-click on a video clip in timeline, then you’ll see the new Slow Motion context menu option with ability to increase/decrease playback speed, reverse, and restore original media.

The new release also revamped the UI. It now has new “Project Info and Data” dialog, displays Project Profile in topbar, and adds box selection functionality to Insert tool, as well as mute and unmute actions to multiclip popup.

Other changes in Flowblade 2.18 include:

• Made generators use appropriate video clip default renders instead of frame sequences. This provided a nice performance for text animation generators.
• Made new HTML Link Button editor available to be used with generator to link to outside resources for e.g. added documentation.
• Support for rendering VP9 WebM videos with alpha channel
• Move to 3-column view for Jobs when displayed in left column panel
• Make Media panel minimum size configurable
• Add keyboard shortcuts for showing vector scope and rgbparade
• Improve filter edit panels expanded states initialization after moves or mask adds
• As well as various bug-fixes and other updates.

How to Get Flowblade 2.18

Flowblade provides official Linux package through Flatpak package which runs in sandbox.

Linux Mint, Fedora Workstation, and other Linux with Flatpak support out-of-the-box can search & install the package directly from system package manager.

flowblade Flatpak package in Linux Mint Software Manager

While Debian/Ubuntu users can run the 2 commands below one by one to get it:

• First, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to enable Flatpak support:

  sudo apt install flatpak

• Then, install the video editor as Flatpak package:

  flatpak install https://dl.flathub.org/repo/appstream/io.github.jliljebl.Flowblade.flatpakref

  

If you already have the Flatpak package installed, then try updating it via command:

flatpak update io.github.jliljebl.Flowblade

NOTE: If this is the first time you installing a Flatpak app package, then you need a log out and back in to make app icon visible from start menu.

Uninstall Flowblade

To uninstall the flatpak package, simply use command:

flatpak uninstall --delete-data io.github.jliljebl.Flowblade

Also run flatpak uninstall --unused to remove useless run-time libraries.