Software Update: Kdenlive 20.12.2

Version 20.12.2 of Kdenlive has been released. Kdenlive, short for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, is an advanced non-linear video editing program designed primarily for Linux, but also has versions for Windows, BSD, and macOS, although the latter is no longer actively developed. It uses several other open source projects, such as FFmpeg and the MLT video framework. Since version 20.12.0, the following changes and improvements have been made:

Kdenlive 20.12.2 available

Kdenlive 20.12.2, part of our monthly bugfix release, is now available and fixes several important issues. Among the changes:

• Fix copying an effect from a track to another
• Several fixes/improvements for the newly added subtitle feature:
  • Implement copy/paste
  • Fix broken resize
  • Fix subtitles encoding issue happening on some systems
  • Improve timeline integration (track can now be highlighted and items resized with standard shortcuts)
  • Various crash fixes
  • Windows: Subtitle with special characters like äöü are now correctly viewed after re-loading the project file.
• Fix crash when trying to group/ungroup items while performing a drag operation
• Fix timeline click not working after a speed change operation
• Fix effect keyframes sometimes broken on image / title clips
• Fix speed change reset audio channel
• Make playlist proxy clips work again
• Fix rendering issues on some systems, like slowmotion effect not working
• Fix UI translations not working or only partially
• Fix clips with mix sometimes cannot be cut or behaving incorrectly

Kdenlive 20.12.1 is out

The first minor release of the 20.12 series is out with a huge batch of fixes and usability improvements.

Effects

• The ability to select and move multiple keyframes by SHIFT + click drag.
• Select multiple keyframes with CTRL+click.
• Add option to move selected keyframe to current cursor position.
• Added a duplicate keyframes button.
• Zoom on keyframes with CTRL + wheel.
• Add option to delete all effects in selected clip(s).
• Fix track effects applying only on first playlist.

subtitles

• Added ability to hide and lock subtitles.

Other highlights

• Added undo/redo when setting in and out points.
• Automatically update title clip name when we edit a duplicate title.
• Appearance improvements to compositions and clips.
• Added unused clip filter to the project bin.
• Added option in the timeline settings to not pause playback while seeking.
• Moved the timeline tooltips to the status bar.