Kdenlive 20.04 – Install Kdenlive Video Editor via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04

Martin6

4 years ago

Kdenlive 20.04 is released. Here is how to install Kdenlive Video Editor via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04.

Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It is primarily aimed at the GNU/Linux platform but also works on BSD and MacOS. It is currently being ported to Windows as a GSOC project.

Kdenlive allows you to use and arrange several audio and video tracks, each one can be locked or muted to your convenience. As it is based on the powerful FFmpeg libraries, Kdenlive can use almost any audio and video formats directly without the need to convert or re-encode your clips. Kdenlive can automatically create low resolution copies of your source clips to allow you doing the editing on any computer, and then render using full resolution. For an enhanced editing features, most effects can be keyframed, allowing you to change the parameters over time, using linear or smooth curves to achieve the result you want.

Kdenlive 20.04

Some of the most exciting features and changes are:

Preview resolution – The new preview resolution speeds up the editing experience by scaling the video resolution of the monitors.
Project Bin – The logging experience just got better with the introduction of filters, you can now rate and color tag your clips.
Multicam Editing – New multicam editing interface allows you to select a track in the timeline by clicking on the project monitor.
Pitch Shift – Pitch compensation feature when changing a clip’s speed.
Opentimeline IO import/export – Added import and export support to Pixar’s OTIO interchange format allowing interoperability with Final Cut 7 XML, Final Cut Pro X XML and Adobe Premiere to name a few.
Motion Tracking – The Motion Tracking received a batch of bug fixes and new tracking algorithms (CSRT and MOSSE). Kdenlive Windows: coming soon.
Zoom bar – New zoom bar for keyframes.

Interface and Usability

Effect groups are back!
Rotoscoping: Allow editing rotoscoping points before closing the shape, Shift + double click to add a new point, add/remove points on double click, double click center cross to resize, add horizontal/vertical only resize handles.
Colored clips according to type in timeline.
Direct drop clips to timeline.
Facelift to monitor, project bin, timeline and audio mixer interfaces.
Snapping: Disable snapping when pressing shift while dragging, press shift when using Spacer tool to disable snapping.
Add menu in track header to switch between single and separate channel audio thumbnails.
New Splash Screen.
Render Profiles: added new audio profiles FLAC and ALAC, new alpha video profiles VP8, VP9 and MOV and GIF image export profile.
Shortcuts: New shift + a shortcut to activate/deactivate target tracks, assign ‘g’ shortcut to add/remove guide, added standard F2 shortcut in Project Bin for renaming,
Fixed ability to use fullscreen monitors.
Fixed DVD wizard.
Added audio backends options (DirectSound, WinMM and Wasapi) to the Windows version to prevent crackling in some cases.