What's new in Kdenlive 25.12, OpenShot 3.4 and LosslessCut 3.67.2
In just a few days, 2025 will be over, and many Linux projects have taken advantage of this time to release their latest development and stable versions. One category where this is a good example is that of... video editorsTherefore, today we will take advantage of this publication to tell you about the new features of the latest versions released of some video editors, which are Kdenlive 25.12, OpenShot 3.4 and LosslessCut 3.67.2.
This aligns perfectly with and is an excellent final complement to our current publications this year, in which we cover the latest features and updates of many of the most well-known and widely used video editors in the Linux world. For example, this year we explored the latest developments in... «Kdenlive, Pitivi, OpenShot, Shotcut and LosslessCut, Avidemux, Flowblade and Olive »So, if you're a regular user of these types of programs, we recommend you keep reading this post to learn about the new features of these 3 programs in this multimedia field.
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But, before we begin to delve into the new features of the following released versions called «Kdenlive 25.12, OpenShot 3.4 and LosslessCut 3.67.2», we recommend you explore a previous related post Regarding the topic of video editors on Linux, after reading this publication:
It's worth mentioning that Avidemux and Flowblade have a longer history, and we've already covered them in previous posts. Olive, on the other hand, is a much more recent development, still in a long stage of development. Therefore, this will be the first time we discuss it.
What's new in Kdenlive 25.12, OpenShot 3.4 and LosslessCut 3.67.2
Kdenlive 25.12
From the reading and analysis of official launch announcement from «Kdenlive 25.12» As of December 18, 2025, we can mention and highlight the following new features (changes, corrections and improvements):
- A new, more flexible panel mounting system was introduced, allowing for free grouping of panels and the ability to show or hide them on demand. Each organization is now saved in its own file, enabling sharing, among many other new related capabilities.
- A Welcome Screen was introduced to improve the experience for new users, as well as adding some useful quick access tools for everyone. Along with the Welcome Screen, a vertical panel organization was introduced, along with new optional vertical security areas, which aim to improve 9:16 video editing for social media and mobile devices.
- The menus have been reorganized to make them more intuitive and to follow some conventions within the field of professional video editing. For example, all file-related actions, such as "Render" and "Project Options," are now grouped under the File menu. Further minor adjustments will be made in subsequent versions.
- The way audio is viewed in the Media Monitor has been modified, by using a mini map at the top of the audio graph, which allows intuitive control of zooming in on specific parts of the audio in a clip.
- Among many other changes, the old "timeline guides" were renamed "sequence markers," since the term "guide" was used ambiguously within the program, which could lead to confusion for some users. In addition, markers can now have a specific duration that will be displayed on the timeline and can be dragged onto the timeline from the Markers panel.
Kdenlive Kdenlive is a fantastic, free, open-source video editor. It can be used without major difficulties or limitations for semi-professional purposes, as it supports working with video recordings in various formats (DV, HDV, and AVCHD) and provides all the basic video editing operations, such as randomly mixing video, sound, and images using the timeline, while adding various built-in effects. Furthermore, 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 and creation. Finally, it offers a powerful titling tool, a DVD creation solution (menus), and can be used as a complete video production studio.
Open Shot 3.4
From the reading and analysis of official launch announcement from «OpenShot 3.4» As of December 15, 2025, we can mention and highlight the following new features (changes, corrections and improvements):
- Less memory usage.
- Numerous errors and bugs corrected.
- A faster "Libopenshot" core.
- Many new video effects and features.
- An overall increase of 32% in performance.
- Faster exports, offering time improvements of approximately 23%.
- Faster FFmpeg decoding, thanks to aligned buffers and more SIMD-compatible handling.
- Faster waveforms for long audio, along with time-curved clips, which offer Less decoding work and better handling during timeline edits.
OpenShot is UFFmpeg is a free and open source video editor, and it is also multiplatform, so it can be used on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS. It is also a video editor that is very easy to use and allows you to do many simple and advanced things on various video formats. Currently, it is usually ideal for cutting and editing videos quickly and easily, in order to create useful and entertaining content for any type of audience. This makes it a surprising, powerful, easy-to-use and quick-to-master video editor. Finally, it is worth noting that it makes use of the FFmpeg library and is capable of reading and writing most video and image formats.
LosslessCut 3.67.2
From the reading and analysis of official launch announcement from «LosslessCut 3.67.2» As of December 1, 2025, we can mention and highlight the following new features (changes, corrections and improvements):
- Improvements added to various dialog boxes.
- The ability to remember advanced settings while running the application was added.
- Adding a bitstream filter called "hevc_metadata=aud=insert" to the track editor.
- The ability to display the estimated segment file size in the segment list has been added.
- The ability to blur the export button on click was added to prevent it from keeping focus.
- The solution to a problem related to incorrect selection of the current segment when playing looped segments.
- The "Correct Video Codec Tag/ID" option has been removed. Instead, you can override the codec tag for individual tracks in the "Tracks" dialog box.
- The solution to a problem related to the transfer of a timestamp in a capture frame, another related to a problem associated with the system language not being saved, and a final one related to the problem associated with a segment history error when exceeding the history limit.
- Other significant features include: a new "generateOverviewWaveform" action, the ability to test/activate actions from the keyboard shortcuts page, the ability to encode FLAC when merging, and the enabling of Flatpak.
Lossless Cut LosslessCut is a free, open-source, and cross-platform video editor designed for cutting videos. It features a simple and intuitive user interface (GUI), making it ideal for roughly processing large video files without data loss. Built on Electron and utilizing ffmpeg, LosslessCut allows users to quickly discard unwanted portions of the video. It performs no decoding or encoding, resulting in very fast and lossless processing. Furthermore, it allows users to capture JPEG snapshots of the video at selected points.
Summary
In summary, we are confident that these related updates «Kdenlive 25.12, OpenShot 3.4 and LosslessCut 3.67.2» These projects will be very useful and interesting for many of its current users. Therefore, they will undoubtedly benefit the growth and sustainability of the Linux universe in this exciting technological field of multimedia (videos). Ultimately, we hope that these projects will continue to advance and offer improvements to everyone during this new year of 2026, for the benefit of all members and users of the Linux universe around the world.
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