Kdenlive 24: Free & Open Source Video Editor

Kdenlive 24.02.x review and demo, including its video editing workflow, and using timeline preview and proxy clips to achieve good performance on less powerful hardware.

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Chapters:
00:43 Getting Kdenlive
03:53 Workflow
10:50 Proxies & Co
15:07 New Features
18:34 Deep Respect

#Kdenlive #FreeVideoEditor #ExplainingComputers

[lesliedeana]

Reflecting for a second on the ability of everyone doing video production that wasn't even available on mainframes not that long ago, with the speed to make and change in real time... WOW!

[happy_apple]

it is great that there are open source versions of applications

[KingJellyfishII]

"It's always nice to be able to select lots of ducks" I wholeheartedly agree

[thesidneychan]

There's also a project converter that can export Kdenlive projects to XML. It can be imported to Davinci resolve, which you can then convert that to another XML that can be opened in FCP or Premiere Pro.

This means it's safe to use kdenlive as an offline editor that can be integrated to these other workflows. That's what I look for in open source. The potential for cross compatibility.

If I ever lose access to Premiere, kdenlive is a potential replacement.

[esra_erimez]

Ahh... after a week of work related deadline stress, Sunday morning, a good cup of coffee, ducks and ExplainingComputers to relax and enjoy, . Thank you for yet more excellent content.

[OksanaNagorna]

I am from Premier background, but I work on Davinci, but when I came across with Kdenlive, I liked its feature rich interface and feature. I am learning it as my secondary tool

[PeteC]

I had several moments of anxiety when I thought you were always going to stop the clip playback just before you finished saying _where_ in North Wales you were, but thankfully we got to hear you telling us it was Colwyn Bay. Phew! I hope you enjoyed your visit there!

[yjjk]

THANK YOU. I've got a whole portable drive full of video from various kayaking trips, and I've been too scared of the video editing process even to begin playing with it. You've given me the confidence to at least start experimenting.

[dfs-comedy]

The "Alt" trick to manipulate one clip in a group looks very useful! Thanks for pointing it out.

[GretschProf]

Once again an excellent review. Kdenlive is one of my favorite video editors. This version appears to address several concerns I had with a previous version. Good job.

[robertdocherty]

An upgrade in Windows 10, has left me unable to launch Davinci Resolve 15, (The highest version my laptop can handle)and so I'll be trying this out to see if I can finish my project. It looks very useful, and the UI is similar to the software I have used in the past.
Thanks for another great tutorial Chris.

[dspmcmirror]

Thanks very much for making this video. Kdenlive is a godsend for those using lower-end computers, and it deserves some promotion like this.

[antibrevity]

Thank you. I've been using Kdenlive more often recently and am often frustrated because I don't know how to do what I want. Even simple things can be difficult if you don't know a program's interface paradigm or procedure. Though I've worked with linear editors for many years, I still learned a few important things from this video that the Kdenlive manual did not help me with.

With complex software, the user often doesn't know where to look for help to achieve their outcome or may not even know the terminology to search for. This effectively creates a 'language' barrier where even high-quality documentation might not be effective.

Sometimes, it's as simple as finding a button dedicated to that task, but you might have searched for an hour and seen documentation saying only "click to open the Example menu and select Function A" while you have no idea where this menu is located as it does not exist in the main menu tree. The location is obvious to everyone that already knows where the button is, but not to those that don't. Intuitive GUI design is difficult, especially for complex software.

[Praxibetel-Ix]

15:43 DUCKIES!!! 🦆💕

Anyway, it's always nice to see what's new with my favorite video editor. And that part where you downloaded it to a USB stick and ran the .exe from there was a genius idea. Here's a couple bucks for the tea fund. Love you, Chris!

[brick]

How serendipitous. I downloaded it about 2 hours ago and was going to fiddle later! Hopefully I'll pick up a few tips!

[mikefinn]

Peter great to see you again always something new to see and learn

[machinimaaquinix]

It's amazing this app is available and free. Just discovered it and blown away by the feature set and ease of use. (with the help of a couple of intro videos like this one.)

[RoboNuggie]

Kdenlive is my editor of choice. I couldn't manage without it to be honest, so this look at the new release is invaluable... will upgrade when it appears in the FreeBSD pkg tree. Thanks for the video & cheers Chris!

[pupi-pupi]

The maturity of this app is amazing. I did work in final cut and premiere back in a day and this looks very good

[andrina]

Great video and advice. The fact that you use kdenlive to produce your videos says it all
Super that you champion open source software in a pragmatic way that won't put off Windows users from trying FOSS or even Linux
Maybe it could finally be the Year of the Linux Desktop? :)
I use xfce on a refurb laptop and I really think Windows users would love it, especially as these days almost everything is web-based.. The lack of cruft and "sponsored apps" is such a breath of fresh air.
I have installed Debian stable on 2 people's older machines who had zero IT knowledge and they are totally happy with it.