Until not long ago, a video editor was a very advanced program, complicated to use and, above all expensive, so it was out of the reach of many users. However, although there are still programs like this (such as Vegas, or Premiere), today we can find free and open source alternatives that have nothing to envy to professional options. And one of them is Kdenlive.
Kdenlive is a free and open source video editor that has been popular with Linux operating systems for years. This editor, for more than three years, has also been available for Windows, being a multiplatform option that looks, face to face, with the commercial alternatives that there are for these operating systems.
This video editor bears many similarities to Premiere, both in functionality and appearance. Among its main characteristics we can highlight:
- Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor.
- It has a timeline to edit multiple video tracks at the same time.
- Compatible with virtually any audio and video format
- It offers a large number of effects and transitions.
- Allows you to control the audio and video levels.
- Its interface, similar to that of Adobe Premiere, can be easily controlled using keyboard shortcuts. In addition, it is fully customizable so that each user can adapt it to their needs.
- It allows working with images and previews in low quality, to improve performance, rendering everything at maximum quality afterwards.
As part of the development of this program, its developers have just released a new version of it, 12.20, a version that comes full of changes, improvements and news such as the following.
News of the new Kdenlive 20.12
The development of this version has focused, above all, on including long-awaited news and improvements requested by users.
The first novelty that we find in this new version of the editor is the possibility of adding transitions within the same track, something that will greatly facilitate the lives of users who work with this editor. In addition, a new subtitles widget has been added that greatly facilitates this task, being able to add, synchronize and edit them from the timeline itself. Furthermore, it is possible to import and export these subtitles in SRT format.
The effects have also been improved to be more organized and much more useful. In addition, a new video effect has been added, Piller Echo , which will allow us to intelligently fill the sides when we edit a vertical video.
We must also highlight a new video equalizer, which will allow us to adjust the contrast, saturation and brightness gamma of the image in real time.
Of course, the developers have used this version to improve the performance of the program and correct various problems, bugs and errors detected during development or reported by users.
Download free video editor
We can download and install Kdenlive in several ways, yes, all of them free. If we are Linux users, for example, we can install it from AppImage or from PPA. On the other hand, if we are Windows users we can download the latest version for free from the following link .
We must indicate that we are going to have two versions, in the case of Windows . The first will allow us to install the program from scratch, while the second will be able to use it “portable” simply by extracting it to the folder we want.