Kdenlive 22.12: The release of the last version of the year is ready!
The first half of the last month of the year 2022 is almost over, and both the GNU / Linux Distros like the many free and open apps, continue to perform the various release announcements of their most recent releases. Such as Kdenlive, which on the 12th of this month, has announced the launch of its most recent version under the name and number of «Kdenlive 22.12».
For those who may not know anything or much about Kdenlive, it is worth noting, before delving into the information related to said launch, that said application is a cool open source and free to use video editor. Which can be used without major difficulties or limitations for a semi-professional use, since, it admits to work with video recordings in various formats (DV, HDV and AVCHD), and provides all basic video editing operations, such as: Mix video, sound and images randomly using the timeline, while adding various effects to it.
And, before you start reading this post about the launch of «Kdenlive 22.12», we recommend the previous related posts, where we address said app, to explore at the end:
Kdenlive 22.12: New version of the free and open Video Editor
About Kdenlive
Given the, Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor, bliss media tool is a multiplatform software (GNU/Linux, BSD, MacOS and Windows) and open source, which works as a Video editor. What makes it ideal to be used by beginner users and in small personal projects.
In addition, through the MLT-Framework, you can integrate many plug-ins and effects of video and audio (sound) processing. And, it incorporates a powerful character generator to create titles and text, as well as a module for creating DVD menus, allowing it to be used as a complete and integral solution (studio type) for the creation of videos.
To learn more about Kdenlive you can explore its official informative section and Online Manual.
What's new in Kdenlive 22.12
According to official release announcement by kdenlive 22.12, this launch brings the following new features:
guides and markers
In this regard, the entire system of guides/markers has been improved in order to better organize the projects. All marker (clips) and guide (timeline) functions can now be found in the new “Guides” panel. What makes its behavior is similar to that of Effect Stack. Since, the content that is displayed depends on the selection made. Which leaves as the main advantage of the new «Guides» base, the ability to easily search, search, sort and filter, for example, by category or text.
Effects
In this area, the following audio graph filters have been enhanced: audio level display filter, audio spectrum filter, and audio waveform filter. In addition, other broken effects due to syntax errors in the XML code have been fixed, and automated tests have been added to the build system to prevent regressions caused by such syntax errors in the future. And also, everything related to copy/paste keyframes has been improved.
Glaxnimate integration
Regarding Glaxnimate, a compatible version of Glaxnimate is now used (version >= 0.5.1), so it is now able to send the content of the timeline to Glaxnimate, which then displays it in the background. This is similar to the "Show Background" option in the title tool. Which makes it much easier to create animations that play along with your videos.
User interface
Two small, but useful and community-requested features have now been added to its GUI. In order to be able to quickly remove spaces or clips in the timeline, that is, to be able to remove spaces after the playhead and to be able to remove all clips after the playhead.
Many more
Since there are many novelties, with many details to be discussed, we will briefly mention the rest, which can be explored through the aforementioned official release announcement:
- You can now define a maximum size for the cached data stored by Kdenlive in the environment settings.
- Allows you to hide the menu bar, thanks to the fact that the menu will now be available through a hamburger menu on the toolbar.
- The settings sections have received a visual cleanup. What has alloweddelete unused and useless options. While others have been rearranged to make them easier to find and clearer on their purpose.
- A deep cleanup of the code base has been done to improve maintainability. In such a way, to prepare it for the changes that are expected to be added in the near future. Such as: Nested timelines.
Summary
In summary, «Kdenlive 22.12» is a great release, both for the users with respect to features, enhancements and fixes, as for the developers who have achieved a little more through it, the power continue preparing the codebase for new major changes that surely in the near future will be available to everyone. So, if you haven't tried it yet, we recommend you try it so you can check its potential.
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