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Kdenlive - Written especially for Linux
A lot of the editors found on this site are for Windows, or Mac (or
both).
Some of them can also be used in Linux. But this one is specifically
for use with Linux machines.
It's called 'KDENLIVE' and it's about 6 years old. It an open source
programe developed by a small team. It aims to become the most advanced
non-linear editor under GNU/Linux.
We'll see about that!
Formats supported
Native support of the following formats is available:
- DV
- Mpeg2, Mpeg4, H264 AVCHD
- Mpeg2 HDV, H264 AVCHDHDV
- Snow Lossless codecs
- Ogg Vorbis Codecs
It also supports PAL and NTSC at 16:9 and 4:3 ratios.
Features:
- Multi track
editing
- Accepts many audio / video / image
formats: mpeg, avi, dv, vob, wav, ogg, mp3, gif (non animated), jpg,
png, svg, ...
- Export to many formats: mpeg, dv, vob,
realvideo, flash, theora, wav, mp3, xvid, quicktime, ...
- Audio and video thumbnails
- Basic audio / video effects: blur,
sepia, volume, brightness, ...
- Basic transitions: crossfade, push,
picture in picture
- Real time preview of all effects
- Add markers and guides to easily
manage your project
- Copy & paste of clips, effects
and transitions
- Easy firewire dv capture
- Customizable layouts
- Desktop integration (add files to your
project with drag & drop)
- Multi track view (preview monitor is
split in 4 with one track in each part)
Effects (Video)
The following video effects are supported
- Box blur - A standard blurring function
- Brightness - make a clip brighter (or
darker)
- Charcoal - make a charcoal effect outline
of a
clip
- Gamma - Aler the screen gamma
- Greyscale - Turn to black and white
- Invert - Make a negative of the colours
- Mirror - Take a portion of the clip and
reflect
it horizontally, diagonally or vertically
- Obscure - Add a moveable 'mosaic' over a
portion of the screen
- Sepia - Simulate an old brown movie
effect (The
actual colour is changeable)
- Speed - Alter the speed of the clip
- Freeze - Create a feeeze frame of a clip
Summary
Kdenlive appears to be a well supported free tool available under a GNU
licence (i.e free). It has a team of developers working to create
multilingual versions of it. There are a couple of known bugs with the
software, mostly related to
version compatibility with underlying foundation software,
but apart form that it appears to be a stable, operational tool
Disclaimer:
I do not have acces to a Linux install and therefore have not installed
or tried this software. All opinions and comments are as a result of
reading documented information about this tool
Click
here to visit the Kdenlive home page
Click
here to visit the wiki
Click
here to download the software
This isn't the only Linux editing tools available. Click here to see other Linux tools
Click
here to return from Kdenlive to free editing software
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