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The 25.12.0 version of Kdenlive video editor is finally available to download!<\/p>\n
The new version of this KDE’s software added a welcome dialog<\/b> at app start, allowing to open or create new project, or create new from a profile.<\/p>\n
For new users, the welcome screen also provides options to select prefer color scheme, and configure default profile resolution, frame rate, layout orientation, and video\/audio tracks number etc.
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The new version also introduced new widget docking system<\/b>, allowing to easily re-arrange the video editor components by dragging on their tab-bars.<\/p>\n
Simply click down on the tab-bar of the target component then drag, it will show you the layout thumbnails. Just drag the cursor icon onto target layout position, then you’re done moving the component. Or, you may double-click (on tab-bar) to cancel the dragging, or even leave it to be outside of the video editor window.<\/p>\n
Besides that, the release also updated the clip monitor and project monitor (video preview section) with enhanced audio display, 1080p monitor scaling, and hamburger menu options to create mark from zone.<\/p>\n The add marker dialog now has time span support, letting to easily set the end time and duration. Media browser now has preview support, making easy to find out the file that you want. And, Safe Zone button is added in monitor toolbar, vertical safe zone layout and zoom reset.<\/p>\n The new version also updated audio waveform support by adding reset\/cycle actions, and moving zoom control from A1 track header to status bar.<\/p>\n It brings back snapping when resizing for non-rotated frames, supports snapping when moving a rotated frame, and snapping for all edges when moving instead of only top-left.<\/p>\n And it added power management option to disable sleep while rendering and playing, switched Other changes include:<\/p>\n There are as well numerous other improvements and tons of bug-fixes in this release. For details, see the change-log in the KDE announcement page<\/a>.<\/p>\n The official packages for Linux, Windows, and macOS are made available in the KDE website via the link below:<\/p>\n For Linux, it’s an AppImage for AMD\/Intel platform, which can be run directly to launch the video editor, after adding executable permission.<\/p>\n There’s also an official Flatpak package<\/a> for most Linux on both ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/kdenlive-widget-drag.webp\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nav1<\/code> encoder to the highly optimized software dav1d<\/code> encoder, and added SVT-AV1 to codecs which use crf option.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n
Get Kdenlive 25.12.0<\/h3>\n
\nDownload Kdenlive<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\namd64<\/code> and arm64<\/code> processors, though not updated at the moment of writing.<\/p>\n