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!
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, 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: Continue Reading…
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 24.12.0 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 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:
Themes and icons not applied properly in Windows and Linux AppImage.
Temporarily removed audio recording feature.
Text not properly displays in clips in the timeline for Linux Wayland.
The popular free open-source Kdenlive video editor released version 23.08.0 more than a week ago. For those who are sticking to the native .deb package format, the official Ubuntu PPA finally updated with the new release package!
Kdenlive 23.08.0 introduced 2 new effects Audio Seam and Auto Fade, added AV1 NVENC profile, and had bug-fixes to Whisper engine with Nvidia GTX 16xx series.
There are also some usability improvements, such as new “Fit all tracks in view” context menu option, Shift + z shortcut adjusts timeline zone to selected clips, and keyboard shortcut to toggle between timeline tabs. See the release note for more details.
How to Install Kdenlive 23.08 in Ubuntu:
Kdenlive provides official Linux packages through AppImage, Flatpak, and Ubuntu PPA.
While the first two run in sandbox, the last PPA is a good choice for Ubuntu/Linux Mint users, which so far supports Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 23.04, and Ubuntu 23.10.
1. First press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal, or search for and launch ‘Konsole‘ from start menu in KDE. When it opens, run command:
Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it asks and hit Enter to continue.
2. After adding PPA, user can either open Software Updater (or Update Manager) to update the software package from an existing version:
Or run the command below to install or update the video editor:
sudo apt install kdenlive
NOTE: Linux Mint user has to run sudo apt update first to manually refresh package cache
And, if you got overwriting files issue due to the old dependencies: libmlt-data and melt, run command to remove them and then re-run the apt command above:
sudo dpkg -r melt libmlt-data
Once installed, press Super (Windows logo key) to open ‘Activities’ overview or start menu, and search for and open Kdenlive.
Uninstall Kdenlive
To remove Kdenlive, either use your system package manager or run the command below in a terminal window:
sudo apt remove --autoremove kdenlive
And remove the Ubuntu PPA either by running command in terminal:
Just grab the package, right-click and go to it’s “Properties” dialog, add executable permission and finally click run the package to launch the video editor.
Avidemux AppImage
Ubuntu 22.04 & Ubuntu 22.10 however does not support AppImage out-of-the-box. To enable it, open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command:
sudo apt install libfuse2
Option 2: Ubuntu PPA
For those prefer the native .deb package format, the Avidemux website refers to this unofficial PPA.
1. First, press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open a terminal window. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb/apps
Type user password when it asks (no asterisk feedback) and hit Enter to continue.
The PPA however offers the latest packages for only Ubuntu 22.04. For Ubuntu 20.04 and old Ubuntu 18.04, you may use this one instead:
