r/kdenlive • • 6d ago

DISCUSSION Help us test Kdenlive

64 Upvotes

In 2026, our focus has been on stability, and we're continuing that effort with the next major release.

For 26.12, we're introducing two changes that need your help testing: relative paths in project files and support for different font styles in the Title Editor.

Download the test version, give it a spin and let us know if you run into any issues.

https://kdenlive.org/news/2026/october-testing/


r/kdenlive • • 9d ago

NEWS Kdenlive 26.08.2 released

75 Upvotes

The second maintenance release of the 26.08 series is out with the usual batch of stability fixes and workflow improvements.

Highlights include improved project handling and ability to set the frame count to start at 1 in the Dynamic Text filter which is useful for animation workflows. This release also fixes several issues in proxy clips, titles, and audio levels.

https://kdenlive.org/news/releases/26.08.2/


r/kdenlive • • 1h ago

QUESTION how to vhs

• Upvotes

hello. How do i put a vhs effect over a video on kdenlive and/or how do i play to vids at once overlaped with eachother?


r/kdenlive • • 1d ago

QUESTION Progress bar for audio spectrum filter

1 Upvotes

Is it possible to get the audio spectrum filter to fill with color as it gets closer and closer to the end like a progress bar?

Example: https://youtu.be/etpqHiSq-x4


r/kdenlive • • 2d ago

QUESTION Looking for advice on editing 360 videos

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10 Upvotes

I recently got a GoPro MAX2 with the intention of using it to capture b-roll footage during events, so I wouldn't have to think too much about how I'm framing shots and could focus on a-roll. Seeing that there is a "VR360 and 3D" collection of Effects in Kdenlive, I was hopeful that the workflow would be relatively straightforward.

Here's the challenge: the .360 video files that the GoPro captures store most of the horizontal footage from the front-facing lens in one video track, and then a thin slice of vertical footage from the back lens in another video track. When I import the file into Kdenlive, they show up as two separate clips. Does anybody have a quick guide for transform settings I can use to get them to line up nicely together? Or will I need to process the files in some other software before importing into Kdenlive?

Screenshots show the thin vertical slice from the back lens (which shows up sideways by default) and the horizontal footage from the front lens, along with a demo of what it looks like when I use the "VR360 Equirectangular to Rectilinear" effect to try to crop it down to a traditional field of view.

EDIT: I have learned that GoPros use an Equiangular Cubemap (EAC) projection for their 360 videos, not the Equirectangular Projection (ERP) that most software is built to handle. I will have to research tools (ideally CLI) for converting from EAC to ERP. I see that one of the effects in Kdenlive converts from Hemispherical (aka double fisheye) to Equirectangular; the camera does output files in a double fisheye format, but they are extremely low resolution when you get it cropped down to a traditional field of view.


r/kdenlive • • 2d ago

SUPPORT Trying to Voiceover a Sped Up Video Clip

0 Upvotes

Hello,

I'm still learning the ropes of kdenlive so apologies if this is a silly question. I am speeding up a clip in a video and then voicing over that sped up clip. I've noticed that above a certain speed (which is slower than I would like) the voiceover clip (recorded in Audacity, not part of the original video's audio) gets very choppy and I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong or if this is just a thing that is part of the software and I need to find a new way to do this. Thanks.

Kdenlive 26.08.2
Linux Mint
Installed via Flatpak

SOLVED: Preview was causing issues but the actual files worked fine.


r/kdenlive • • 3d ago

SHOWCASE When the Sun rises above Europe

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5 Upvotes

Put this together in Kdenlive


r/kdenlive • • 4d ago

SHOWCASE MY FIRST VIDEO (achik0)

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26 Upvotes

My partner put this video together in kdenlive.


r/kdenlive • • 5d ago

SUPPORT a/v alignment issue

11 Upvotes

the raw clip is file, when i import it into kdenlive its misaligned. what i didnt show is a render, but when i leave it "unaligned" and render, the rendered clip aligns just like the raw. when i align a/v in kdenlive and render, the rendered clip is misaligned.
the raw clip was played in mpv, its the same in vlc
ive also tried to first "Transcode to Edit Friendly Format..." which didnt change anything

debian 13 / `#!++`
downloaded appimage from official website just today (v26.08.2)


r/kdenlive • • 4d ago

QUESTION Adjusting Scroll Wheel function

3 Upvotes

I recently updated from a much older version of Kdenlive to deal with a persistent crash on rendering issue and I'm having to relearn a lot of how the program works. One issue I've just recently come across that's messing with me is how the scroll wheel on my mouse doesn't behave the same as it used to in the effects window.

When adjusting the timing on certain effects, such as fade in/out or the X/Y cords for compositions, if I hovered over the specific option then scrolling up or down would always adjust the increment by one. Now it does it by 3-4 no matter what. Is there a setting where I can restore the older functionality?


r/kdenlive • • 5d ago

SOLVED mixing feature actively imploding in on itself

8 Upvotes

Kdenlive 26.04.3 on PopOS cosmic Flatpak


r/kdenlive • • 5d ago

QUESTION Kdenlive vs Shotcut vs Davinci resolve (for my daily usage editing)

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4 Upvotes

r/kdenlive • • 5d ago

QUESTION It does not use the GPU for rendering

4 Upvotes

Hi, I tried to render a 30-second clip with some simple effects like a zoom and a bit of Gaussian blur but it literally takes four times as long to render, and it’s not using the GPU at all. Does anyone know what I might have misconfigured or what I might be missing? I’ve already tried everything I could think of.


r/kdenlive • • 5d ago

SUPPORT Image keeps getting cropped into a barrier!

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1 Upvotes

alr, i need help with this urgently. ive been having this issue when uploading images or any sort of media onto the timeline from my Project Bin. when trying to move the image around, the image begins to cut or disappear right behind an invisible barrier or what i believe is the bounds of the actual image imported. ive provided screenshots on what i mean.

the first screenshot shows the image having no effects to position it showing the size of the original image.

second image, i then apply any Effects i can think of: Position and Zoom, Transform, Crop, Scale, and Tilt, etc (anything related to what im trying to do) then it begins to show a cropping like behavior beyond the point where you can clearly see where the original image bounds are. all of those effects keep having the same problem.

i dont have any sort of layers above that are overlapping with the layer ive imported the image into which im trying to show in my screenshots with the timeline included.

i have worked with kdenlive in the past for other school projects and i clearly dont remember having this issue before and if it did, then i probably didnt remember.

ive done lots of research and found almost nothing to help with this problem... or im just using the wrong words and looking in the wrong places.

cmon man. i wanna move images around freely😭

(using v26.08.2 on Windows 11 22H2)

also any help is greatly appreciated (please before monday because my vid is due on that day)


r/kdenlive • • 7d ago

SHOWCASE tenia tremenda herramienta poderosa frente a mis narices y recien la descubro

32 Upvotes

hace 2 meses que empeze a editar en kdenlive porque mi pc no soportaba mas capcut y ademas me llamaba la atencion pasarme a linux el tema es que yo pensaba que componer y transformar era solo para poner el efecto negativo a las letras o el superponer pero recien descubro que se puede usar como el efecto de transformar y eso que lo ponia en el nombre xd pero bueno esto me va a ahorrar mucho tiempo para no poner los dos por separado con este nuevo conocimiento oficialmente despues de 2 meses y 15 dias tengo el mismo nivel que tenia en capcut


r/kdenlive • • 7d ago

QUESTION Can't overlap clips on the same track?

1 Upvotes

Maybe I've missed some settings, but apparently I can't drag a clip on the same track onto another clip to automatically create a transition. Did I miss something?


r/kdenlive • • 7d ago

TUTORIAL El efecto de presentacion de personaje con Fotograma congelado en Kdenlive

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9 Upvotes

r/kdenlive • • 7d ago

QUESTION Need help with magic mask and alpha channel on keyed out footage

3 Upvotes

I have a pre-rendered foreground clip with a transparent alpha channel. On the edit page, I have it stacked over a background layer. I am trying to use Magic Mask to cut out a green screen rig frame and a floor corner, but every time I apply and invert the Magic Mask on the Color page, it destroys my clip's native pre-rendered transparency and turns the background completely black. I need help properly routing my node alpha paths or combining them so both masks work together.


r/kdenlive • • 8d ago

TROUBLESHOOTING Change speed is greyed out and doesn't work.

1 Upvotes

I don't know what to do to fix it, i'm on cachyos


r/kdenlive • • 9d ago

SHOWCASE An animated music video I made using Mostly Kdenlive

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26 Upvotes

This took me quite a while to make. I hope you all enjoy it.


r/kdenlive • • 10d ago

SHOWCASE When an onion talks to you in an alley...

7 Upvotes

Link to video

I made everything in Krita and then put the clips together in Kdenlive.


r/kdenlive • • 10d ago

TUTORIAL Dicas para criar vídeos

1 Upvotes

r/kdenlive • • 11d ago

QUESTION Mimicking the visual style of "Kane & Lynch 2"?

6 Upvotes

I wish to edit a video and give it a visual style similar to the video game "Kane & Lynch 2 Dog Days". It is a very peculiar style that I have not seen before, I think it is supposed to be reminiscent of online videos around 2005 when HD wasn't a thing yet on the internet. You can see that the developpers have added digital artefacts that you would see when the connection wasn't to good while trying to watch a video.

I have no idea what is the name of this style, if it even has one, are there any tutorials available online to help me mimick it with Kdenlive?

Here are some exemples :

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Example 3

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Example 5

Example 6


r/kdenlive • • 10d ago

QUESTION Clips outside the viewport are inaccessible when nested in a sequence

1 Upvotes

Greetings.

I was wondering if it is possible to circumvent this behavior. Let's say that I have a video loaded, and that i want to put one video to the left, and another one to the right (moving them by the exact project width), just outside of the viewport, and I want to nest them in a sequence so that, for example, when I scale them I could scale the entire sequence so that those clips become smaller and all appear in the viewport. Is that somehow possible? Right now, when I try to do this, the clips that were outside of the viewport before nesting, cannot be brought back in, I've tried using the transform and position and zoom effects.

I'm also curious about the title clips, because, there are instances where I want my text to go outside of the viewport upward and downward, and I don't want to use the built-in animation to move text because I want varying speed of the text movement, but the same issue applies. I've also tried increasing the viewport size to 200% and scaling down the frame to be 1080p via the transform effect, but the detail is lost. I hope that my wording was clear. Thanks in advance.


r/kdenlive • • 11d ago

QUESTION How can i turn my horizontal videos into vertical with my camera also shown?

2 Upvotes

Guys im not good with editing ao i installed kdenlive to simplify things. I want to upload my contents on Instagram but just like other streamers( their cam is at up and their gameplay is in bottom) and i cant find what i want on internet i just need to learn this, nothing els fancy.

I could use your help guys.

Thank!