Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/en/ Video Editing Freedom Tue, 24 Dec 2024 02:59:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://kdenlive.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/kdenlive-logo-blank-500px-150x150.png Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/en/ 32 32 Kdenlive 24.12.0 released https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/12/kdenlive-24-12-0-released/ https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/12/kdenlive-24-12-0-released/#comments Thu, 19 Dec 2024 16:09:20 +0000 https://kdenlive.org/?p=14208 The post Kdenlive 24.12.0 released appeared first on Kdenlive.

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We are happy to announce Kdenlive 24.12. This release focuses on bug fixes, improved stability, and usability enhancements across the board. Numerous crashes and glitches have been addressed, including issues with audio capture, effect zones, high DPI display rendering, and subtitle editing. Proxies, rotoscoping, and project management workflows have been significantly refined, resolving lags, incorrect EXIF orientation handling, and archiving problems. We’ve managed to sneak in some little nifty features as well like the ability to resize multiple timeline items, Shift + Del shortcut to extract clips from the timeline, added actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category and mixes (same track transitions) can be 1 frame long.

Under the hood, we’ve dropped support for Qt5 and now require Qt6, alongside updated dependencies (MLT 7.28 and KF 6.3).  This release comes with a lot of code cleanups and refactored Whisper settings. Optimized threading and memory management. Additionally, fail-safe measures have been taken to prevent invalid project profiles and script names.

Subtitles

We’ve added support for Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS) subtitles, a widely used text-based format renowned for its flexibility in creating highly styled and customizable subtitles. ASS subtitles support advanced features such as font family, size, and color; text outlines and shadows; alignment and positioning; scaling and rotation; margins and spacing; and effects, including masking and other enhancements. This feature was developed by Chengkun Chen as part of Google Summer of Code (GSOC).

 

 

Subtitle Manager

The new subtitle manager is now integrated with style management and has been divided into four sections: Files, Layers and Content, Style, and Info, which correspond to the four main components of ASS subtitles.

 

Files – create, import and export subtitles
Layers and Content – create/remove subtitle tracks and apply styling
Styles – create and manage styles
Info – displays information about subtitles

Subtitle Style Editor

The new and powerful Subtitle Style Editor allows you to control all the styling capabilities of the ASS format.

Animated Subtitles

The ASS format supports three types of effects: Banner, where the text scrolls sideways across the screen; Scroll, where the text moves vertically; and Karaoke, where each word is highlighted in sync with the audio.

Currently, only the Banner and Scroll effects are accessible through the user interface, but additional styling, including Karaoke effects, can be applied using ASS tags.

Speech-to-Text

We’ve polished the Speech to Text features ensuring a smoother and more reliable experience. Seamless installation, GPU translation and threading issues have fixed. We’ve also resolved issues with the display of Vosk, Whisper and Seamless model folder sizes on Windows. Added the ability to update all virtual environment packages have updated to the latest version of Whisper. Lastly, the Whisper settings interface has been refactored.

 

Effects

With this version, we complete the final task of our fundraiser: builtin effects and a redesigned effects interface. Rendering of keyframe types like Bounce, Circular, and Exponential has been improved, alongside fixes for zone-based effects, rotoscoping lag, shape filter rendering, improved precision for time remapping, motion tracker models and prev/next seeking in monitor. It is also now possible to have single-frame mixes (same track transitions).

 

Interface redesign

The new Effect Stack redesign enhances usability with clearer organization of keyframeable and non-keyframeable parameters, improved layout consistency, more compact and clean. We’ve also added info buttons in effect headers for quick access to documentation.

Built-in Effects

To make your workflow much more fluid, the new effects panel gives direct access to effect parameters, allowing to quickly and easily adjust them. Currently built-in effects are Transform and Flip for video clips and Volume for audio clips. Built-in effects can be enabled/disabled in the settings.

New Effects

As usual there is always room for some eye candy, so we’ve added two color correction effects, HSL Primaries and HSL Range as well as GPS Effects (Images below displaying Distance, Altitude and Speed among many other values).

 

Photo by Harry Shelton: https://www.pexels.com/photo/back-view-of-a-man-with-a-backpack-riding-a-bicycle-7341710/
Video by Be The Observer from Pexels: https://www.pexels.com/video/man-riding-a-bicycle-6968415/
EKSRX, CC BY 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

Other Highlights

  • Fix audio capture issues
  • Added Shift + Del shortcut to extract clip from timeline
  • Fix clip monitor history menu not showing up on audio clips
  • Fix spacer tool leaving a few frames after last clip
  • Implement resizing multiple timeline items
  • Fix Pexels Videos provider
  • Fix Alt+click to loop between clips using an effect in project monitor
  • Titler: ensure only plain text can be pasted
  • Titler: added support for tabulations
  • Add Actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category

 

 

 

Full changelog
  • Save extracted frames in project folder is project is supposed to save files in its parent folder. Commit. Fixes bug #496486.
  • Fix proxied image messes exif orentation. Commit. Fixes bug #496681.
  • Fix audio capture, ensure default monitor scene is active to start recording. Commit. See bug #496263.
  • Don’t allow question mark in script names (not supported by MLT). Commit. Fixes bug #496763.
  • Fix motion tracker effect link to documentation and create models folder in any case to avoid error message. Commit.
  • Allow creating 1 frame mixes. Commit.
  • Fix resizing mix to 1 frame duration breaking mix position. Commit.
  • Move enable builtin effects from asset panel to Kdenlive Settings dialog. Commit.
  • Various built in effect fixes on copy effect. Commit.
  • Properly display the full log on missing render file. Commit.
  • Ensure we display an error if the render job finishes but rendered file does not exist. Commit.
  • Don’t enable keyframes in timeline if an effect is disabled. Commit.
  • Disable keep original size feature as it has issues (causes distortion if another transform is added in timeline). Commit.
  • Archiving: don’t show two abort buttons. Commit.
  • Fix incorrect code change that broke tests. Commit.
  • Don’t allow creating invalid project profiles with strange pixel aspect ratio. Commit.
  • Don’t change timeline audio/video targets while dragging. Commit. Fixes bug #496354.
  • Minor cleanup, ProjectClip cannot be of type Timeline. Commit.
  • Fix title widget incorrectly showing text color as gradient if it was once switched to gradient. Commit.
  • Fix wrong HW profile selected when transcoding. Commit.
  • Add shortcut to extract clip from timeline. Commit.
  • Add the new MLT HSL color correction effects to the correct category. Commit.
  • Fix guides not appearing in first timeline of newly created projects. Commit.
  • Fix corners effect broken and lag. Commit.
  • Fix crash in effectstack. Commit.
  • Fix disabled built-in effects incorrectly flagged as non built-in. Commit.
  • Fix crash trying to remove keyframes when there are none. Commit. Fixes bug #496391.
  • Fix merge error in fix for windows crash in file with missing drive. Commit.
  • Fix Clip In Project Bin not opening the item’s folder in secondary bins. Commit.
  • Fix rotoscoping lag on keyframe change. Commit.
  • Fix recent commit breaking tests. Commit.
  • Cleanup, fix incorrect invokation of setProducer. Commit.
  • Master effects: don’t try to refresh both monitors on each effect param change, simply mark the inactive monitor as needing a refresh on next focus action. Commit.
  • Fix render dialog cleanup always disabled. Commit.
  • Minor cleanup in renderjob. Commit.
  • Disable inactive timeline tabs. Commit.
  • Fix abort rendering. Commit.
  • Fix Windows crash openening a project with a missing file on a non available drive. Commit.
  • Fix fit to width/height when clip sample aspect ratio != 1. Commit. See bug #96404.
  • Don’t try opening invalid sequence. Commit.
  • Mark sequence clips with 0 tracks as invalid. Commit.
  • Gpsgraphics: Fix default value for bg scale and opacity. Commit.
  • Fix subtitle style editor scaling. Commit.
  • Fix seamless transalation on GPU. Commit.
  • Fix vosk model size calculation on Windows. Commit.
  • Fix crash loading project with effect zone. Commit.
  • Fix display of Whisper/Seamless model folder size on Windows. Commit.
  • Fix another missing slash in tag end. Commit.
  • Fix missing slash in tag end. Commit.
  • Fix clip monitor history menu not showing up on audio clips. Commit.
  • Cleanup subtitle edit ui. Commit.
  • Fix incorrect param name. Commit.
  • Gpsgraphic: fix range and comment. Commit.
  • Fix gpsgraphic default values. Commit.
  • Disable failing shared_ptr check. Commit.
  • Cleanup Subtitles style dialog to better follow the app UI style. Commit.
  • Effects XML changes to include keyframes. Commit.
  • Remove reference to unused file. Commit.
  • Fix crash/corruption in qml after sequence close. Commit.
  • Only set timeline context properties once. Commit.
  • Cleanup renderjob. Commit.
  • Update avfilter_drawgrid.xml. Commit.
  • Update avfilter_drawbox.xml. Commit.
  • Fix missing change in last commit. Commit.
  • Fix highdpi painting of color wheels. Commit.
  • Fix colorwheel drawing on highdpi. Commit.
  • Add some debug around project close. Commit.
  • Fix Lift(Gamma/Gain layout issues. Commit.
  • Bump MLT dependency to 7.28. Commit.
  • Fix threading issue in seamless install, add context info buttons to settings page. Commit.
  • Bump KF dependency to 6.3. Commit.
  • Update all venv packages on request. Commit.
  • Various fixes for TTS. Commit.
  • Don’t include quiet packages in feature_summary. Commit.
  • Fix possible concurrency crash in settings caused by pthon deps check. Commit.
  • Enforce latest version of whisper. Commit.
  • Fix tests and snapping bug introduced in recent spacer tool fix. Commit.
  • Refactor whisper settings. Commit.
  • Cleaunp. Commit.
  • Fix spacer tool leaving a few frames after last clip. Commit.
  • Don’t update subtitle edit on each selection change. Commit.
  • Fix changing font size in subtitle editor. Commit.
  • Add classes for specific clip types (timeline, playlist clips), cleanup. Commit.
  • [dev-docs] Remove Qt5 mentions from build instructions. Commit.
  • Implement resizing multiple timeline items. Commit.
  • Fix Pexels Videos provider. Commit.
  • Fix resetting Help shortcuts on each application launch. Commit. Fixes bug #495373.
  • Fix replacing bin AV clip with mlt playlist. Commit.
  • Fix .mlt playlist files lose audio thumb on project reopen. Commit.
  • Dont try to read .mlt playlists as kdenlive project files on reload. Commit.
  • Fix shadowed variable causing incorrect clip removal on project opening, fix crash opening project with timeline clip missing in bin. Commit. See bug #493486.
  • Fix monitor seek to prev/next keyframe not working in rotoscoping. Commit.
  • Fix rendering custom image sequence profile. Commit.
  • Fix incorrect string param. Commit.
  • QString refactor: replace QString() with QStringLiteral(). Commit.
  • Fix mdocument modified on open: don’t try to convert already updated subtitles. Commit.
  • Subtitles: fix cut on newline handling after recent change. Commit.
  • Fix: A/V Check for avformat files is swapped. Commit.
  • Fix newline handling in subtitles, fix crash on delete in simple editor. Commit.
  • Fix clip jobs like stabilize creating invalid folders. Commit.
  • Fix freeze loading project with invalid folder id. Commit.
  • Update packaging instructions. Commit.
  • Don’t invalidate timeline preview when replacing an audio clip in bin. Commit.
  • Ensure monitor is cleared and ruler hidden when no clip or a folder is selected in bin. Commit.
  • Fix title producer update on edit undo. Commit. Fixes bug #494142.
  • Revert incorrect change. Commit.
  • Fix typo in dance.xml. Commit.
  • Fix single item(s) move. Commit.
  • Cleanup. Commit.
  • Fix cycle effects playling timeline and sometimes broken after reopening project. Commit.
  • Fix recent regression breaking all sort of things when opening projects. Commit.
  • Fix crash when dragging clip and using mouse wheel. Commit.
  • Don’t play when clicking monitor container if disabled in settings. Commit.
  • Fix effect zones lost on project reopening. Commit.
  • Fix effect zone for timeline clips. Commit.
  • Render jobs: differentiate status between waiting and starting. Commit.
  • Various fixes for bin clip effects. Commit.
  • Disable check for ghost effects that currently removes valid effects. Commit.
  • Detect and fix track producers with incorrect effects. Commit.
  • Include cleanup. Commit.
  • Fix bin effects not deleted from timeline instances. Commit.
  • Don’t try to build clone effect it if does not apply to the target. Commit.
  • Fix deleting effect does not reset on monitor view and crash applying effect zone to bin clip. Commit.
  • Don’t unnecessarily check MLT tractors. Commit.
  • Fix crash opening file with missing clips. Commit.
  • Remove unused code. Commit.
  • Don’t erase temporary playlists in debug mode. Commit.
  • Remove dead code. Commit.
  • Fix null disconnect error in tests. Commit.
  • Disable workaround to better understand failures in test suite. Commit.
  • Fix crash on project close. Commit.
  • In render debug mode, enforce MLT’s repository to fix AppImage render suite failure. Commit.
  • Add more debug output to render log files. Commit.
  • Renderer: add debug option to prevent deleting the render log file. Commit.
  • Fix possible crash opening an interlaced project. Commit.
  • Remember last used zone in effect zone. Commit. See bug #493555.
  • Only show system notifications for MLT error messages. Commit.
  • Fix builtin effects sometimes appear after normal effects. Commit.
  • Ensure clip properties tab icons are not rotated. Commit.
  • Fix Shape Alpha filter affecting project audio. Commit.
  • Git pushMerge branch ‘master’ of invent.kde.org:multimedia/kdenlive. Commit.
  • Fix group effect button displayed in empty effect stack. Commit.
  • Drop DBus in favor of QLocalSocket to communicate between renderer and main app. Commit.
  • Fix Alt+click to loop between clips using an effect in project monitor. Commit.
  • Fix crash on close. Commit.
  • Fix copy/paste clip duplicates builtin effect. Commit.
  • Add MLT_REPOSITIORY to render log. Commit.
  • Add more checks for render progress report. Commit.
  • Don’t delete render log file if rendering does not create an output file. Commit.
  • Fix possible crash on quit. Commit.
  • Fix render job possibly aborting before starting. Commit.
  • Correctly handle failure to create venv: give feedback to the user and don’t keep a broken venv setup. Commit.
  • [REUSE] Port to REUSE.toml. Commit.
  • Fix crash loading audio clip. Commit.
  • Subtitle edit: fix character count and editor font size. Commit.
  • Fix some warnings, add some debug info if a rendered file is missing or empty. Commit.
  • Built-in effects fixes, add option to keep source clip size on import. Commit.
  • Don’t try to connect to dbus jobview on command line rendering. Commit.
  • Fix recent Qt6 warnings. Commit.
  • Add message box informing user we will open a browser window when clicking documentation button in effect/transition. Commit.
  • FIx looping through clips in project monitor effect scene. Commit.
  • Fix loop selected clip. Commit.
  • Effect stack now updates when switching between Project Bin and Timeline, fix a few focus issues. Commit.
  • Properly hide “built-in stack” and “group effects” button when needed, add an info link button for compositions. Commit.
  • Fix type. Commit.
  • Properly hide/show the save stack icon. Commit.
  • Fix minor typo. Commit.
  • Replace : and ? chars in guides names for rendering. Commit. See bug #492595.
  • Don’t trigger timeline scroll when mouse exits timeline on a clip drag, it caused incorrect droppings and ghost clips. Commit. See bug #492720.
  • Effect Stack: add info button in effect headers redirecting to our documentation. Commit.
  • Fix scolling timeline with rubberband or when dragging from file manager can move last selected clip in timeline. Commit. Fixes bug #492635.
  • Fix adding marker from project notes always adds it at 00:00. Commit. Fixes bug #492697.
  • Improve the ASS format subtitling support. Commit.
  • Correctly draw other Keyframe types in timeline (Bounce, circular, cubic, exponential). Commit.
  • Fix blurry widgets on high DPI displays. Commit.
  • Fix keyframe param not correctly enabled on first keyframe click. Commit.
  • Fix curveeditor crash on empty track. Commit.
  • Fix on monitor seek to next/previous keyframe buttons. Commit.
  • Ensure rendering with separate file for each audio track keeps the correct audio tag in the file name. Commit.
  • Switch time remap to the new precision spin box allowing 6 decimals instead of previous 2. Commit. See bug #492274.
  • Fix render project folder sometimes lost, add proper enums instead of unreadable ints. Commit. See bug #492476.
  • Fix MLT lumas not correctly recognized by archive feature. Commit. Fixes bug #492435.
  • Use custom spin box allowing arbitrary digits for speed dialog. Commit. See bug #492274.
  • Fix configure toolbars messing UI layout. Commit.
  • Fix mouse wheel changing parameter effect on scroll. Commit.
  • Fix effect stack layout issues. Commit. See bug #492314.
  • Port away from depreciated qSetGlobalQHashSeed(). Commit.
  • Port QCheckBox away from depreciated stateChanged to checkStateChanged. Commit.
  • Port depreciated qAsConst to std::as_const. Commit.
  • Drop support for Qt5. Commit.
  • Effects List: ensure deprecated category is always listed last. Commit.
  • Fix tabulations in Titler (requires latest MLT git). Commit.
  • Titler: ensure only plain text can be pasted, prepare support for tabulations (needs MLT patch). Commit.
  • Disable track / clip effect stack now create an undo entry. Commit.
  • Archiving: when archiving used clips only, remove unused clips from Project Bin. Commit.
  • Fix archive doesn’t save the video assets when run multiple times. Commit.
  • Automatic backup now correctly saves and restores subtitles. Commit. See bug #490459.
  • After a crash, recover last subtitle file if possible. Commit. See bug #490459.
  • Fix document notes timecode links may be broken after project reload. Commit. See bug #443597.
  • Correctly refresh EffectStack when en/disabling built-in effects. Commit.
  • Ensure non keyframeable params appear on top of keyframable, fix effect stack layout glitch. Commit.
  • Fix some effects like obscure broken in monitor. Commit.
  • Fix broken qml font on AppImage. Commit.
  • Cleanup Text Based Edit Widget to make it more consistent and use less space. Commit.
  • Remove virtual keyword when we use override. Commit.
  • Remove incorrect taskmanager unlock. Commit.
  • Fix transcode log sometimes empty. Commit.
  • Fix various composition parameter layout issues. Commit.
  • Minor fixes for MSVC. Commit.
  • Update kiss_fft. Commit.
  • Revert “Fix checkpackages generating an exception when run”. Commit.
  • Fix checkpackages generating an exception when run. Commit.
  • Remove duplicate include. Commit.
  • Fix some compile warning. Commit.
  • Align all job progress to same width in clip monitor. Commit.
  • Fix mem leak in asset params and composition view corruption. Commit.
  • Improve drag and drop of effects, don’t create 2 separate entries on dropping effect from list. Commit.
  • Fix effect stack scroll on drag. Commit.
  • Add Actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category. Commit.
  • Redesign effect parameter widgets and introduce built in effects. Commit.
  • Add a control uuid to each bin clip to ensure clips can not get mixed on project opening. Commit.

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]]> https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/12/kdenlive-24-12-0-released/feed/ 11 Kdenlive Café in December https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/11/kdenlive-cafe-in-december/ Wed, 27 Nov 2024 12:56:47 +0000 https://kdenlive.org/?p=14202 The next Kdenlive Café will be on the 3rd of December at 8 PM UTC. Come chat with the team! Join us at: https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

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Come chat with the team!

Join us at: https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

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]]> Kdenlive 24.08.3 released https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/11/kdenlive-24-08-3-released/ https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/11/kdenlive-24-08-3-released/#comments Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:14:09 +0000 https://kdenlive.org/?p=14152 The post Kdenlive 24.08.3 released appeared first on Kdenlive.

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The last maintenance release of the 24.08 series is out. We fixed some issues, so project opening should be working again.

 

  • Fix crash caused by incorrect codec passed on opening subtitle. Commit. Fixes bug #495410.
  • Fix shadowed variable causing incorrect clip removal on project opening, fix crash opening project with timeline clip missing in bin. Commit. See bug #493486.
  • Fix qml crash building timeline with Qt 6.8 – ensure context property exists before setting source. Commit. See bug #495335.
  • Fix generate proxy when frame size is above a value not using the current project setting. Commit.
  • Fix shadow variable causing clip removal on project opening. Commit.
  • Fix monitor seek to prev/next keyframe not working in rotoscoping. Commit.
  • Fix missing build-in LUT files not correctly fixed on project open. Commit. See bug #494726.
  • Fix clip jobs like stabilize creating invalid folders. Commit.
  • Fix freeze loading project with invalid folder id. Commit.
  • Don’t invalidate timeline preview when replacing an audio clip in bin. Commit.
  • Ensure monitor is cleared and ruler hidden when no clip or a folder is selected in bin. Commit.

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Kdenlive 24.08.2 is out with many fixes to a wide range of bugs and regressions.

  • Fix title producer update on edit undo. Commit. Fixes bug #494142.
  • Fix typo in dance.xml. Commit.
  • Fix single item(s) move. Commit.
  • Fix cycle effects playling timeline and sometimes broken after reopening project. Commit.
  • Fix recent regression breaking all sort of things when opening projects. Commit.
  • Fix crash when dragging clip and using mouse wheel. Commit.
  • Don’t play when clicking monitor container if disabled in settings. Commit.
  • Fix effect zones lost on project reopening. Commit.
  • Various fixes for bin clip effects. Commit.
  • Disable check for ghost effects that currently removes valid effects. Commit.
  • Detect and fix track producers with incorrect effects. Commit.
  • Fix bin effects sometimes not correctly removed from timeline instance. Commit.
  • Don’t try to build clone effect it if does not apply to the target. Commit.
  • Don’t unnecessarily check MLT tractors. Commit.
  • Fix crash opening file with missing clips. Commit.
  • Fix crash on project close. Commit.
  • Fix compilation. Commit.
  • Fix possible crash opening an interlaced project. Commit.
  • Fix on monitor seek to next/previous keyframe buttons. Commit.
  • Fix crash editing keyframes in a bin clip with grouped effects enabled. Commit.
  • Don’t try to connect to dbus jobview on command line rendering. Commit.
  • Fix Qt5 compilation. Commit.
  • FIx looping through clips in project monitor effect scene. Commit.
  • Fix loop selected clip. Commit.

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Kdenlive 24.08.1 is out and we urge all to upgrade. This version fixes recent playback and render regressions while fixing a wide range of bugs.

Full changelog:

  • Fix reassigning timecode to project clip. Commit. Fixes bug #492697.
  • Fix possible crash on undo/redo single selection move. Commit.
  • Fix dragging transitions to a clip cut to create a mix. Commit.
  • Fix multiple selection broken. Commit.
  • Fix clip offset not appearing on selection in timeline. Commit.
  • Ensure bin clips with effects disabled keep their effects disabled when added to a new sequence. Commit.
  • Fix keyframe at last frame prevents resizing clip on high zoom. Commit.
  • Fix effects/compositions list size. Commit. Fixes bug #492586.
  • Fix compositions cannot be easily selected in timeline. Commit.
  • Replace : and ? chars in guides names for rendering. Commit. See bug #492595.
  • Don’t trigger timeline scroll when mouse exits timeline on a clip drag, it caused incorrect droppings and ghost clips. Commit. See bug #492720.
  • Fix scolling timeline with rubberband or when dragging from file manager can move last selected clip in timeline. Commit. Fixes bug #492635.
  • Fix adding marker from project notes always adds it at 00:00. Commit. Fixes bug #492697.
  • Fix blurry widgets on high DPI displays. Commit.
  • Fix keyframe param not correctly enabled on first keyframe click. Commit.
  • Fix curveeditor crash on empty track. Commit.
  • Ensure rendering with separate file for each audio track keeps the correct audio tag in the file name. Commit.
  • Fix render project folder sometimes lost, add proper enums instead of unreadable ints. Commit. See bug #492476.
  • Fix MLT lumas not correctly recognized by archive feature. Commit. Fixes bug #492435.
  • Fix configure toolbars messing UI layout. Commit.
  • Effects List: ensure deprecated category is always listed last. Commit.
  • Fix tabulations in Titler (requires latest MLT git). Commit.
  • Titler: ensure only plain text can be pasted, prepare support for tabulations (needs MLT patch). Commit.
  • Don’t accept empty whisper device. Commit.
  • Fix ffmpeg path for Whisper on Mac. Commit.
  • Fix archive doesn’t save the video assets when run multiple times. Commit.
  • Fix document notes timecode links may be broken after project reload. Commit. See bug #443597.
  • Fix broken qml font on AppImage. Commit.
  • Remove incorrect taskmanager unlock. Commit.

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]]> Akademy and Kdenlive Sprint report https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/09/akademy-and-kdenlive-sprint-report/ Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:53:58 +0000 https://kdenlive.org/?p=14033 The post Akademy and Kdenlive Sprint report appeared first on Kdenlive.

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Part of the Kdenlive team attended this year’s Akademy – KDE’s annual conference in Würzburg, Germany. Since we don’t have so many occasions to meet in real life, we also used the event to make a Kdenlive team sprint.

So here is a report of what happened during these busy 4 days !

Documentation

We first discussed how to better integrate our great documentation inside the Kdenlive app. We already have a kind of hidden link in the effect list that redirects the user to the documentation website, but decided to make the feature more visible and you will now (to be released in 24.12.0) find a small info button redirecting to our doc. In the process, we fixed and improved many links so that you now directly access the correct page.

Roadmap

We discussed our roadmap, moved the tasks that were completed in a dedicated column. We also reviewed the remaining tasks and reorganized them to better align with our priorities.

Fundraising

We reviewed the tasks planned in our fundraising, what has been done and what is left, more on this will be announced in an upcoming post soon.

Kdenlive Café

We decided to go for one online user Café every 2 months. This is a great way to stay in touch with the community, and we plan to have themes for these events, for example creating content with Kdenlive, Development news and coding introduction, How to contribute (documentation, testing, etc). Next one will be in November, focused on the next December release. Stay tuned for the date.

Render Test Suite

Last year, we worked on a rendering test suite that is aimed at automating rendering and comparing the result with a reference video file. The goal being to detect and prevent regressions in our pipeline. Unfortunately, since it still requires a local install and manual triggering, we are not really making use of it. During the sprint, we worked on making it run on our current CI infrastructure for full automation. Some good progress was made, there are still a few things to debug.

Website

We discussed possible changes regarding our website, more to be announced later this year.

LV2 Audio Effects

With the recent introduction of an LV2 module in our video backend MLT, we made tests with some LV2 audio effects. Some effects that don’t require a specific UI work but session state (saving and restoring the effect data, for example with the noise repellent plugin) is not yet implemented in the MLT module, so its usability is currently very limited.

AI Effects

We discussed and tested a few models providing AI effects. Some work has to be done to make the way we integrate python scripts more modular, we will soon start working on this.

Bugs

We didn’t have enough time unfortunately to do much work on the bugtracker but still managed to tackle a few issues. Among them, we found the reason for missing notifications on Windows, found 2 regressions in our video backend causing affecting playback smoothness, and various smaller bugs.

Akademy

Between our Sprint sessions, we also attended several of the Akademy talks, and met great people there. Julius made a talk about his work on the CI regarding packaging and notarization. Some of us also attended a translation workshop so that we can better guide interested contributors.

 

Busy week-end, and you will hear again from us soon!

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Kdenlive 24.08 is out, and while summer is usually a quieter time for the team, this update comes packed with nifty new features, enhancements, and quality-of-life improvements, specially for Effects and Transitions. This version boosts performance in sequence playback and timeline preview rendering, improves handling of transcoding issues when importing large amounts of clips, adds VAAPI transcode profiles, and fixes GPU transcoding for Nvidia. On the packaging front, Whisper support has been improved for both Windows and macOS while also improving timing issues on all platforms.

 

Effects and Transitions

This release comes with many improvements to Effects and Transitions that were made possible thanks to your contributions to our fundraiser.

 

Easing Modes

In addition to the existing easing modes (linear, smooth, and constant), we’ve added several new options like: Cubic In/Out, Exponential In/Out, Circular In/Out, Elastic In/Out, and Bounce In/Out for transitions and effects.

 

 

 

Effect Groups

The new Effect Groups feature enables you to control and apply changes to all clips within a group or selection, making the effect editing process more flexible.

 

 

Transform Effect UX

This release brings  several enhancements to the Transform effect, improving both usability and functionality. The handles’ visuals have been refined by adding more control points for easier adjustments. Now, you can move the frame from anywhere inside it, with the handles automatically disappearing during the move for a cleaner view. Also holding Alt+Click lets you cycle through clips without needing to select them in the timeline. We’ve also added a grid to the monitor, allowing clips to snap into place while moving.

 

Curve Editor

This version introduces an initial prototype of the highly anticipated curve editor for keyframes. Please note that it is in a very alpha state and is not ready for production.

 

 

Other Highlights

This release includes over 130 commits. Here are a few highlights:

  • Fixed many Python related issues
  • Fixed Titles background issues
  • Added timestamps to undo commands
  • Fixed many crashes in various operations
  • Add Actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category
  • Run callback server for OAuth2 only if necessary.
  • Fixed issues with custom Clip Jobs
  • Fixed audio recording regressions
Full Changelog
  • Fix Whisper / numpy version on Mac. Commit.
  • Try to fix venv on Mac. Commit.
  • Fix monitor data lost on switch from/to fullscreen on Windows. Commit. See bug #490708.
  • Improve default track height calculation. Commit. See bug #490869.
  • Ensure qtblend composition is always preferred to cairoblend unless specifically requested by user. Commit. See bug #491628.
  • Better syntax for package check. Patch by Philippe Fremy. Commit.
  • Fix effectstack view keeps scrolling when mouse leaves. Commit.
  • Improve drag and drop of effects, don’t create 2 separate entries on dropping effect from list. Commit.
  • Fix effect stack scroll on drag. Commit.
  • Stop dragging effect stack when mouse is outside of the widget. Commit.
  • Fix reuse. Commit.
  • Fix some effect names not translated. Commit. Fixes bug #491438.
  • Fix python venv on Windows. Commit.
  • Fix possible crash on python install and enforce correct packages for Windows Whisper. Commit. See bug #490661.
  • Switch openai installer to python requirements files, allowing to fix numpy error on Windows. Commit. See bug #491350.
  • Fix rendering progress sometimes incorrect. Commit. See bug #490146.
  • Fix NVidia transcoding of 10bit videos (convert to 8bit). Commit.
  • Default to GPU transcoding if available. Commit.
  • Fix incorrect param in audio thumb introduced in recent commit. Commit.
  • Minor optimization for preview render. Commit.
  • Fix titler incorrect background scale. Commit.
  • Fix subtitle widget size on AppImage. Commit.
  • Fix detection of build in MLT lumas. Commit.
  • Fix subtitle widget using too much space. Commit.
  • When doing an extract operation on all tracks and guides are not locked, move / delete the guides accordingly. Commit. See bug #490020.
  • Fix titler background is pixelated. Commit. Fixes bug #431606.
  • Fix deleting several single selection items sometimes deletes an unselected clip. Commit.
  • Make audio only render faster. Commit. See bug #491109.
  • Add video only vaapi transcode profile. Commit.
  • Don’t start proxy/audio tasks if a clip requires transcoding. Commit.
  • First round of fixes for task manager. Commit.
  • Add vaapi transcoding profile. Commit.
  • Fix crash in task manager. Commit.
  • Separate file for audio tracks fixes: Fix muted tracks exported, don’t export audio for video render. Commit. See bug #491108.
  • Fix timeline scrolling down by a few pixels when already at the bottom when using rubberband or spacer. Commit. Fixes bug #490956.
  • Ensure missing timeline clips all have the “Invalid” markup text. Commit.
  • Fix crash cutting missing timeline clip. Commit.
  • Fix possible crash in keyframe editor. Commit.
  • Scroll effect stack view when dragging an effect. Commit.
  • Fix crash adding/editing keyframes on tracks/master when using group effects feature. Commit.
  • Fix possible QT debug crash on paste. Commit.
  • Add Actions to quickly add Marker/Guides in a specific category. Commit.
  • Fix loading sequence clip broken by last commit. Commit.
  • Fix single selection resize affecting other grouped items. Commit.
  • Add a control uuid to each bin clip to ensure clips can not get mixed on project opening. Commit.
  • Fix crash after undo spacer move with guides. Commit.
  • Fix transform keyframe center seeking outside clip. Commit.
  • Fix crash pasting single selected clip. Commit. Fixes bug #490370.
  • Fix track effects cannot be deleted if “group effect” feature is enabled. Commit.
  • Updating a bin clip (name, tag) should be applied to all timelines, not only the current one. Commit.
  • Slightly better adjustment of tracks in multicam view for more than 4 tracks. Commit.
  • Make multitrack tool operate on inactive tracks as well. Commit. See bug #489981.
  • Fix color theme menu not showing active theme. Commit. Fixes bug #489958.
  • Fix cannot restore audio after saving project with master muted. Commit. Fixes bug #489985.
  • Fix crash transcoding an audio only clip. Commit.
  • Generating comobox box from mlt enumeration parameters in generic effect UI. Commit.
  • Add createdate to dynamic text keywords and some tooltip info. Commit. See bug #489119.
  • Update SoK file copyright. Commit.
  • Implement keyframe curve editor. Commit.
  • Fix transcoding sometimes results in vfr clips. Commit.
  • Fix avgblur minimum value for x offset. Commit.
  • Add sliders to keyframe import offset (Fixes #1884). Commit.
  • Update include/exclude lists with latest status. Commit.
  • Allow Effects/Compositions widgets to be smaller. Commit.
  • Consistently use USE_DBUS in CMake. Commit.
  • Monitor qml overlay: don’t allow editing effect if timeline cursor is outside effect. Commit.
  • Get rid of ugly public/private hack in tests. Commit.
  • In comments, replace en_GB words “colour” and “analyse” with en_US versions. Commit.
  • Rename CMake option for DBus from NODBUS to USE_DBUS. Commit.
  • Nicer monitor handles for transform effect, don’t allow invalid rect on resize. Commit.
  • [cmd rendering] Ensure proper kdenlive_render path for AppImage. Commit.
  • [nightly flatpak] update otio. Commit.
  • Explicitly mention that QT’s major version in MLT must match the one used for Kdenlive. Commit.
  • Fix undo move effect up/down. On effect move, also move the active index, increase margins between effects. Commit.
  • Fix removing a composition from favorites. Commit.
  • Properly activate effect when added to a timeline clip. Commit.
  • Transform effect: allow moving frame from anywhere inside it, hide handles on move. Commit.
  • Fix spacer tool can move backwards and overlap existing clips. Commit.
  • Transform effect: add top, bottom, left, right handles. Commit.
  • Add easing method to video fades. Commit.
  • Transform effect: fix handles move on click. Commit.
  • Transform effect: when working in timeline with several clips using a transform effect, Alt+Click allows cycling through the clips. Commit.
  • [nightly flatpak] Switch to llvm18. Commit.
  • Add grid to monitor effects scene (it snaps). Commit.
  • Run callback server for OAuth2 only if necessary. Commit.
  • Fix extra dash added to custom clip job output. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix include list license. Commit.
  • Fix usage of QUrl for LUT lists. Commit. See bug #487375.
  • Rename include/exclude lists. Commit.
  • For Qt5 require at least KF 5.115.0, for Qt6 KF 6.0.0. Commit.
  • Allow custom whitelist files for effects / compositions (no ui yet). Commit.
  • Fix startup crash on KF 6.3. Commit.
  • Fix missing whitelist license. Commit.
  • Implement effects whitelist (WIP). Commit.
  • Fix default keyframe type referencing the old deprecated smooth type. Commit.
  • Warn if custom clip job contains uneven number of quotes. Commit.
  • Be more clever splitting custom ffmpeg commands around quotes. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix effect name focus in save effect. Commit. See bug #486310.
  • Fix tests. Commit.
  • Fix selection when cutting an unselected clip under mouse. Commit.
  • Add timestamp to undo commands. Commit.
  • Fix loading timeline clip with disabled stack should be disabled. Commit.
  • Fix crash trying to save effect with slash in name. Commit. Fixes bug #487224.
  • Remove quotes in custom clip jobe, fix progress display. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Replace custom style menu by new KStyleManager menu. Commit.
  • Use KIconTheme::initTheme & KStyleManager::initStyle for proper styling. Commit.
  • Fix setting sequence thumbnail from clip monitor. Commit.
  • ClipJob: fix typo. Commit.
  • ClipJob: correct and update info and whatsthis. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix locked track items don’t have red background on project open. Commit.
  • Fix spacer tool doing fake moves with clips in locked tracks. Commit.
  • Hide timeline clip status tooltip when mouse leaves. Commit.
  • UI files: use notr=”true” instead of old comment=”KDE::DoNotExtract”. Commit.
  • Fix wrong FFmpeg chapter export TIMEBASE. Commit. Fixes bug #487019.
  • Fix tests build. Commit.
  • With Qt6 the breeze-icons *.rcc files are no longer delivered. Commit.
  • Code Gardening: split main() into logical pieces. Commit.
  • Create sequence thumbs directly from bin clip producer. Commit.
  • Play monitor on click – make configurable. Commit.
  • Fix opening documentation link for shuttle on Windows. Commit.
  • Fix merge error. Commit.
  • Typo for build command: ninja is use in the cmake command, so sudo ninja install should be used. Commit.
  • JogShuttle, add note and link for installation on Windows. Commit. Fixes bug #485602.
  • Optimize playback of sequence clips (don’t default to rgba format which triggers expansive compositing checks). Commit.
  • Correct typo “file exist” → “file exists”. Commit.
  • Draft: Clarify that the remaining time calculation is an estimation. Commit.
  • Fix tests warnings. Commit.
  • Improve user feedback. Commit.
  • Audio record: allow playing timeline when monitoring, clicking track rec… Commit. See bug #486198. See bug #485660.
  • Feat: Implement effect groups. Commit.
  • Work/audio rec fixes. Commit.
  • Add multi-format rendering. Commit.
  • Ensure Docks are correctly sorted in view menu. Commit.

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The first Kdenlive Café of the year will be on Tuesday, September 3rd at 7PM UTC (9PM CET).

Come chat with the team!

Join us at: https://meet.kde.org/b/far-twm-ebr

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]]> Kdenlive 24.05.2 released https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/07/kdenlive-24-05-2-released/ https://kdenlive.org/en/2024/07/kdenlive-24-05-2-released/#comments Mon, 08 Jul 2024 19:41:24 +0000 https://kdenlive.org/?p=13827 The post Kdenlive 24.05.2 released appeared first on Kdenlive.

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The second maintenance release of the 24.05 series is out,

Full changelog

  • Fix guides categories not correctly saved in document. Commit. Fixes bug #489079.
  • Fix adding record track adds a normal audio track. Commit. Fixes bug #489080.
  • Fix rendering with aspect ratio change always renders with proxies. Commit.
  • Fix compilation on Windows with KF 6.3.0. Commit.
  • Fix timeline duration not correctly updated, resulting in audio/video freeze in timeline after 5 min. Commit.
  • Fix Windows build without DBUS. Commit.
  • Fix crash on spacer tool with subtitles. Commit.

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The first maintenance release of the 24.05 series is out fixing issues in the spacer tool, effects and compositions, subtitle management and project settings to name a few. We addressed recently introduced crashes and freezes, including fixing the undo/redo track insertion and multiple track insertion issues. This version also improves AppImage packaging and enables notarization for macOS. 

Full changelog

  • Don’t try renaming sequence on double click in empty area of timeline tab bar. Commit.
  • Fix deletion of wrong effect wihh multiple instances of an effect and group effects enabled. Commit.
  • Fix single selected clip disappearing from timeline when dragging a new clip in timeline. Commit.
  • [cmd rendering] Ensure proper kdenlive_render path for AppImage. Commit.
  • Fix freeze/crash on undo/redo track insertion. Commit.
  • Fix crash on undo/redo multiple track insertion. Commit.
  • Project settings: don’t list embedded title clips as empty files in the project files tab. Commit.
  • Fix undo move effect up/down. On effect move, also move the active index, increase margins between effects. Commit.
  • Fix removing a composition from favorites. Commit.
  • Properly activate effect when added to a timeline clip. Commit.
  • Fix spacer tool can move backwards and overlap existing clips. Commit.
  • Fix crash deleting subtitle when the file url was selected. Commit. Fixes bug #487872.
  • Fix build when using openGLES. Commit. Fixes bug #483425.
  • Fix possible crash on project opening. Commit.
  • Fix extra dash added to custom clip job output. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix usage of QUrl for LUT lists. Commit. See bug #487375.
  • Fix default keyframe type referencing the old deprecated smooth type. Commit.
  • Be more clever splitting custom ffmpeg commands around quotes. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix effect name focus in save effect. Commit. See bug #486310.
  • Fix tests. Commit.
  • Fix selection when cutting an unselected clip under mouse. Commit.
  • Fix loading timeline clip with disabled stack should be disabled. Commit.
  • Fix crash trying to save effect with slash in name. Commit. Fixes bug #487224.
  • Remove quotes in custom clip jobe, fix progress display. Commit. See bug #487115.
  • Fix setting sequence thumbnail from clip monitor. Commit.
  • Fix locked track items don’t have red background on project open. Commit.
  • Fix spacer tool doing fake moves with clips in locked tracks. Commit.
  • Hide timeline clip status tooltip when mouse leaves. Commit

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