Wednesday, January 9, 2019

Kdenlive Video editor Review 2019

Kdenlive Video editor is the most popular opensource video editor on Linux. It is completely free and available to download to all platform Linux, Windows and MacOS. Kdenlive is the part of the KDE Application. It is built using KDE framework and other libraries and framework such as feri0r, LADSPA, FFmpeg etc. There are few opensource video editor Kdenlive, Shotcut, openshot, pitivi, flowblade etc. and Kdenlive is the best of among those. Look top best free & opensource video editor from my previous blog post. Kdenlive is not only solution for linux but also for Windows and MacOS for video editing. Kdenlive is absolutely great for learning video editing. Although, Kdenlive is not fully finished and polished product, good for average video editing but not for professional purpose. Once its UI polished to make more user friendly and added keyframe feature to all effects with the same UI then it will be great experience on video editing specially on Linux. It has lots of audio video effect collections, wipe transitions(lumas), editing tools and features which makes Kdenlive looks like professional video editor.

The following are the pros and cons of Kdenlive.
Pros of Kdenlive :

  1. support large number of media format.
  2. large collection of video and audio effect library.
  3. Support grouping and un-grouping clips.
  4. Support Marker feature for editing.
  5. Project zone selection in Timeline.
  6. Keyframmable parameter for audio and video effect.
  7. provide all video scopes(waveform, histogram, vectorscope and RGB parade) for color grading.
  8. Lightweight, simple and easy to use interface.
  9. Support configurable shortcut and User Interface (UI).

Cons of Kdenlive:

  1. Not Stable, crash frequently.
  2. Keyframe feature and its UI is not standard and consistence.
  3. not suitable for advanced and professional video editing.
  4. Much more audio video effect (filters) may lead confusion because of repeating filters(eg. brightness, brightness Keyframmable etc.).

Conclusion :
Kdenlive is a professional looking video editor that has large collection of audio and video filters and many of them are keyframmable. And it has almost all basic editing features. Although, it is not stable, keyframe feature is not user friendly. If you are looking for best opensource video editing Kdenlive is the best comparing to other great opensource video editor Shotcut and Openshot. And it is good for beigneer to learn video editing and easy to switch other professional advanced video editor.

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