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Kdenlive 22.04 released
by Farid Abdelnour | May 2, 2022 | News, Releases | 2 comments

The Kdenlive team is happy to announce the release of version 22.04. This development cycle comes with more than 300 commits, mostly focused on stability and polishing, ranging from packaging all the way up to user interface enhancements.
Besides the improvements to the Windows and macOS versions, Kdenlive is now runs on Apple’s M1 architecture and includes initial support for full range 10-bit color on all platforms — although note that 10-bit color does not work with effects yet. Kdenlive also automatically offers to transcode variable frame-rate videos to an editing-friendly format, and some filters, like Blur, Lift/Gama/Gain, Vignette and Mirror, are now slice threaded, which improves rendering speeds.

Encouraging support among users is one of our priorities and that’s why Kdenlive introduces Effect Templates in version 22.04. Effect Templates are custom effects that can be shared with other community members through the KDE Store and can be downloaded directly into Kdenlive. The store is already open and you can contribute your effects too!

The speech recognition interface got improvements to the highlight color of selected text, font size and it has been appropriately renamed to Speech Editor. Other changes include HighDPI and low resolution screen support, improved OpenTimelineIO handling, ASS subtitle fixes and added CR2, ARW and JP2 image formats.

The render dialog received an interface rewrite, drastically improving usability while giving the user more power by adding a new custom profile creation interface.
Improved render window
New preset creation window
Another highlight is the ability to render multiple videos by zones using the timeline guides.
The Icon View mode in the Project Bin received a major facelift as well.
Full log
Ensure audio target track is remembered if we click on a bin clip with the same number of audio streams. Commit. See bug #452495
Fix delete render preset on windows not working. Commit.
Remove text label. Commit.
Fix show clip properties action always disabled. Commit.
Fix tests. Commit.
Embed time remap ui in a scrollview so that Kdenlive can be used on small resolution (1024×768). Commit.
Fix speech editor using large horizontal spacing when selected bin clip has long name. Commit.
Fix timeline clip selection broken after a move undo operation. Commit.
Enable highdpi. Commit.
Mac OS: fix access to microphone. Commit.
Fix monitor image size with non integer screen scaling. Commit.
Fix app focus lost on Windows when exiting monitor fullscreen. Commit.
Switch from QQuickView to QQuickWidget – fixes broken playback on Mac OS. Commit.
Fix several cases of timeline losing focus. Commit.
Correctly update “apply” button on monitor change. Commit.
Make monitor detection more robust for fullscreen mode. Commit.
Fix resetting effect does not clear timeline keyframe view, resulting in possible crash. Commit.
Don’t propose rtaudio backend if not available. Commit.
Fix layout warning. Commit.
Fix play zone seeking to first frame of timeline. Commit.
Fix import keyframes importing outside clip out. Commit.
Remove confusing “autorotate” checkbox in transcode to edit friendly. Commit.
Code quality fixes. Commit.
Fix fullscreen monitor selection doesn’t work on Windows. Commit.
Fix possible crash on exit. Commit.
Don’t query producer length on each frame. Commit.
Fix speed not saved in custom render profiles. Commit.
Code quality fixes. Commit.
Ensure we use the breeze widget style on first run in Mac. Commit.
Make progress bar for effects more visible (for ex. in motion tracker). Commit.
Fix project duration not updated on bin clip deletion. Commit.
Fix timeline focus issues on drag & drop, fix mouse position and project duration in timeline toolbar not consistently updated. Commit.
Fix no speech end time in analysed speech. Commit.
Ignore audio files album art. Commit.
Fix typo (missing space). Commit.
Fix last silence analysis in speech to text, small drawing fixes. Commit.
Fix creating guides from project notes. Commit.
Fix line feed lost on project notes paste. Commit.
Add invert param to luma mix to allow reversing direction of transition. Commit.
Only save bin thumbnail on project save to avoid displaying incorrect thumb after unsaved project change. Commit.
Fix freeze on add clip recently introduced. Commit.
Fix thumbnail cache bug causing incorrect thumbs to sometimes display after saving project. Commit.
Speech to text: cleaner html output for project files, fix work selection not really working. Commit.
Fix foxus issue on effect drop. Commit.
Smaller drag image in bin, also show it in icon view mode. Commit.
Fix startup warning. Commit.
Fix timeline focus issues on drag and drop. Commit.
Fix timeline scrolling below zero and timeline drag/drop bug. Commit.
[Renderer] Fix wrongly inverted logic to hide “Generate Script” button. Commit.
Fixes for saving and editing render presets. Commit.
[Render Presets] GOP and B-Frames params: enable only if it makes sense. Commit.
Fix possible crash in bin when selecting a clip. Commit.
[Renderer] Reset DAR to 1:1 on resolution override to avoid errors. Commit.
[Render Presets] Combo Box for PAR to prevent render errors. Commit.
Fix rubberband selection on scroll, and don’t overlap track headers, fix move clip + mouse wheel. Commit. Fixes bug #417209
Fix razor tool misbehaviour on subtitle track. Commit.
Fix keymap info on subtitle track. Commit.
Fix timecode rounding for fps like 23.98. Commit. Fixes bug #435213
Fix double warning and duplicate folder on manage cache data deletion. Commit. Fixes bug #434754
Keep focus on clip monitor after editing marker. Commit. Fixes bug #433595
Right click on a timeline guide seeks to its position and shows context menu. Commit. Fixes bug #441014
Fix editing title/color clips does not invalidate timeline preview. Commit. Fixes bug #437427
Titler: remember and restore last used text alignment. Commit. See bug #413572
Bin: tree view: hide audio/video icons for audio or video only clips. icon view: hide audio/video icons depending on zoom level, fix tag color covering thumb on drop. Commit.
[Render Widget] Prettify by removing some frames. Commit.
[Render Presets] Always disable “Scanning” properly if “Progressive”. Commit.
[Renderer] Fix preset gets deleted if saving is canceled. Commit.
Fix selection in bin icon view. Commit.
Fix previous commit (inverted logic). Commit.
Fix extract frame using proxy clips. Commit.
Fix “Clip” menu not properly update. Commit.
Fix regression “Extract Audio” always hidden. Commit.
[Render Widget] Fix threads param not updated. Commit.
Make audio/video usage icons more visible. Commit.
Spot remover, start with a small zone, not full screen. Commit.
Fix crash and corruption (disappearing effect) when dropping a clip close to 0 in timeline. Commit.
Fix open clip in bin when multiple bins and in icon view. Commit.
Multiple fixes for bin. Commit.
Improve tooltip on mix enter/exit/resize, display number of selected clips and duration in status bar. Commit.
Rename “Text edit” widget to more descriptive “Speech editor”. Commit.
[Renderer] Fix: quality slider was reversed. Commit.
Fix minor typos. Commit.
[Render Presets] Fix: “channels” has a UI control. Commit.
[Render] Don’t allow to set rate control for pcm_ audio codecs. Commit.
Fix crash and corruption on mix resize, add tests. Commit.
Turn off seek on add effect on first start. Commit.
Fix reset tracker effect incorrectly moves analyse rectangle. Commit.
Proper approach to set default render preset. Commit.
Fix project storage folder incorrectly stored, resulting on modified project on open. Commit.
[Render Widget] Refactoring and feature extension. Commit. Fixes bug #415610
Fix clip task sometimes not performed because of older pending task. Commit.
Merge disable autorotate and force rotation on same line in clip properties, fix disable video stream. Commit.
Fix transcoding to correctly adjust to audio/video only transcode when required, adjust button text to inform user. Commit.
Fix effect stack cleared on clip copy. Commit.
Fix defects. Commit.
Keyframe fixes: fix keyframe view not updated on clip resize and timeline position in keyframe view not updated on clip move. Commit.
Fix timeline preview invalidated by composition on project load. Commit.
Add option to seek to clip on add effect (enabled by default, can be disabled from Kdenlive Settings > timeline). Commit.
Slideshow clips: display image duration and count in clip properties. Commit.
Slideshow animations now use external config file instead of hardcoded, remember last image type. Commit.
Increase the flexablilty of importing captions. See issue #1361. Commit.
Unbreak slideshow animation. Default animation are still quite bad, we could improve or allow custom. Commit. See bug #438880
Fix regression: edit clip always disabled. Commit.
Fix concurrency issue breaking effect parameters. Commit.
Fix mouse wheel behavior on effect parameters. Commit.
Fix guides can be move to position < 0. Commit.
Don’t allow editing of current profile to prevent crashes. Commit.
Improvements for field order option. Commit.
[Project Settings] Fix: open selected profile instead of first. Commit.
Seperate HTML and translatable strings. Commit.
Add field order option to project settings. Commit.
Move audio scrub confif from Kdenlive Settings to Monitor menu, and make it possible with a shortcut. Commit.
USe not deprecated KDE_INSTALL_PLUGINDIR variable. Commit.
Ensure timeline clips are reloaded on change. Commit.
Fix rotation param cannot be copied between keyframes. Commit.
Ensure monitors are raised on click in bin or timeline. Commit.
Fix “Locate Clip” always hidden. Commit.
Don’t allow creating keyframe outside clip after resizing. Commit.
On project load, ensure r...