Kdenlive 24.08.2: Maintenance release with useful new features
If you are a Advanced, specialized and multimedia IT user on GNU/Linux, surely for one or many reasons, you will have needed to create and edit images, audios and videos on some occasions. And precisely in this last case, you will have tried some of the many available options of video editors to make your video creations, whether for home, work or simply having fun with others online, for example, for a YouTube channel. In my case, I often use one called Pitivi, which we have already talked about before, here at Desde Linux. While, a few days ago, and taking advantage of the fact that recently «Kdenlive video editor has released its new stable version 24.08.2»I have taken some time to test it and now bring you this little article with its latest developments.
What if, There are many more free, open source, and free video editor options out there., which are also usually multiplatform and have more advanced and commercial versions. But, among the most famous ones that are usually the best known among GNU/Linux distribution users, we can mention the following: Kdenlive, OpenShot, Shotcut, Pitivi, LosslessCut, Avidemux, Olive, and FlowbladeSo, to start learning a little more about each of these and their most recent developments, today we will dedicate this post to Kdenlive, taking advantage of the fact that it has been more than a year since we last explored its progress and development.
Kdenlive 23-08-3: News of the latest version released in 2023
But, before we start exploring and unveiling the news of this great and Useful Video Editor in its new stable version called «Kdenlive 24.08.2», we recommend you explore a previous related post with this same application, at the end of it:
Kdenlive is a great free and open source video editor. It can be used without any major difficulties or limitations for semi-professional use, since it supports working with video recordings in various formats (DV, HDV and AVCHD), and provides all the basic video editing operations, such as: Mixing video, sound and images randomly using the timeline, while adding various built-in effects. In addition, Kdenlive (KDE Non-Linear Video Editor) runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and BSD; and through the MLT framework, it integrates many plugin effects for video and sound processing or creation. Finally, it offers a powerful titling tool, a DVD authoring solution (menus) and can be used as a complete video creation studio.
Kdenlive 24.08.2: What's new in the recent and current maintenance release
List of new features (changes, fixes and improvements) in Kdenlive 24.08.2
From the reading and analysis of official launch announcement from «Kdenlive 24.08.2» of October 21, 2024, on the Blog of your Official website, we can mention and highlight the following 10 new features (changes, corrections and improvements):
Main courses
- Incorporates several solutions for bin clip effects.
- Adds a fix for a typo in the dance.xml file.
- Now able to detect and repair track producers with incorrect effects.
- Fixed an issue related to the movement of individual items.
- Added a fix to the title producer update when undoing an edit.
- Provides a fix for a recent regression that broke all sorts of things when opening projects.
- No longer causes the crash issue that occurred when dragging a clip and using the mouse wheel.
- Adds an improvement related to lost areas of effect when reopening any project.
- No longer allows playback when clicking on the monitor container if it is disabled in the settings.
- Adds the ability to disable ghosting checking which currently removes valid effects.
Extras
- Provides a fix for an issue where bin effects were sometimes not being properly removed from the timeline instance.
- Fixed an issue with opening files with missing clips and occasional crashes when closing a project and opening an interlaced project.
- Qt5 compilation, looping between clips in Project Monitor effects scenes, and selected clip looping have been improved (fixed).
- Fixes an issue with loop effects playing in the timeline and sometimes breaking after reopening the project.
- Contains a fix for the issue of monitor searching for next/previous keyframe buttons and crashes when editing keyframes in a bin clip with grouped effects enabled.
Screenshots of the new version
Finally, remember that for Learn more about Kdenlive, can explore their online manual which is also available in Spanish.
Summary
In summary, this New maintenance version 24.08.2 of the famous and widely used video editor «Kdenlive», as usual, comes to perfect with punctual corrections, changes and improvements to the current version of series 24.08, with the objective of keeping as functional and versatile as possible to such a great multimedia development of the Linuxverse. And in case, like me, you use another Video Editor for your home, work or social group (community) videos online, well I recommend that you give it a try and try Kdenlive for a few days. so that you can experience first-hand its excellent performance and working features. Of course, in order to achieve more and better videos for yourself, or your family, friends and clients, if applicable.
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