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After almost a month of development, Kdenlive video editor released a new version with another dozen of bug-fixes.
It’s Kdenlive 24.12.2, the second maintenance release of the 24.12 series. As usual, the official announcement is not ready yet. But the source tarball is out and KDE has announced it as one in the KDE Gear 2024.2.
Kdenlive 24.12 in Ubuntu
Shotcut video editor released new 25.01 version today. See what’s new in this monthly release and how to install guide for Ubuntu.
Shotcut 25.01 introduced built-in file browser that can be toggled on/off through either “View -> Files” menu or Ctrl+Shift+4 keyboard shortcut. In addition, there’s new “Show in Files” option in Properties and Jobs, to quickly locate the file in built-in file browser.
Kdenlive, the popular KDE video editor, released the first maintenance update for the 24.12 series few days ago.
It’s not officially announced in its website at the moment of writing, but the source tarball is out for those who want to compile by themselves. And, the Flatpak package has been updated for most Linux users.
As you may know, Kdenlive 24.12 introduced Built-in Effects option in settings, which will automatically add the Flip and Transform effects to the video part, and the Volume effect to the audio part by when you dragging a clip into the timeline.
The build-in effects however miss “Presets” menu options, and this release brings it back!
Bring back presets for built-in effects
This is a step by step guide shows how to compile the Kdenlive video editor 24.12.0 from source tarball in Ubuntu 24.10.
The popular Kdenlive video editor dropped native .deb package support for Ubuntu since version 24.02. It now provides official Flatpak package and AppImage for universal Linux support.
If you don’t like running it in sandbox environment, then you may choose to build it from source by yourself! And, here’s how to do the job for the most recent 24.12.0 release.
Kdenlive Video Editor
Kdenlive, the popular Qt-based free open-source video editor, released new 24.12 version a few days ago.
The new release package was made available on December 14. KDE.org announced it within KDE Gear 24.12, though there’s still no official release note in kdenlive website at the moment of writing.
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.
OpenShot released version 3.2.0 a few days ago with great performance improvements.
OpenShot is a free open-source Qt-based video editor works on Linux, Windows, and macOS. Due to its beginner friendly menu options, built-in title templates, and animated titles (Blender powered), I prefer it over Kdenlive and Shotcut.
However, the video editor was sluggish, froze frequently, and slow for video preview playback every time after made changes. It made me crazy quite often, so I turned to learn using Kdenlive for basic editing.
In OpenShot 3.2.0, the video editor has significant performance enhancements. It’s now running smoothly out-of-the-box in my Ubuntu 24.04 laptop!
Flowblade video editor released new major 2.14 version few days ago with exciting new features!
Flowblade is a free open-source multi-track non-linear video editor for Linux, that features built-in G’Mic Tool, batch encoding, and GPU accelerated (Vaapi and NVENC) video encoding.
The new major 2.14 version was released last Friday. It features initial USB jog/shuttle support, so far with following 3 devices support:
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For those who prefer the native .deb app packages, here’s new unofficial PPA for installing the most recent Kdenlive video editor 24.08.3 in Ubuntu 24.04 and 24.12.2 in Ubuntu 24.10.
Since version 24.02, the Kdenlive video editor is finally ported to Qt6 plus KDE Frameworks 6, which brings big performance improvements, but also a few regressions.
Due to this change, the developer team discontinued the official Kdenlive PPA, since KF6 is NOT yet made into Ubuntu repositories.
The official packages are now only Flatpak and AppImage, that run in sandbox. For those who prefer the .deb package format, here’s the new unofficial PPA for choice.
Kdenlive 24.04 with Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5
Kdenlive video editor released new 24.02.0 version this Monday!
The new release now takes use of Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 for its user interface. The port gets overall experience and better Wayland support for Linux users. And, it now runs natively on DirectX, Metal, and Vulkan respectively on Windows, MacOS, and Linux with substantial performance boost.
However, due to this change, the developer team discontinued supporting for the official PPA that contains the native .deb package for Ubuntu and Linux Mint. Now, it supports only AppImage & Flatpak for Linux.
Other downsides due to switched to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6 include:
