Introduction

kdenlive is a Multi track non linear video editor . kdenlive is not fully stable yet. It will crash sometimes. The more RAM and a faster CPU makes a signficant improvement in the functionality of kdenlive. The more capable the pc, the significantly less the number of "crashes". It Accepts many audio / video / image formats: mpeg, avi, dv, vob, wav, ogg, mp3, gif (non animated), jpg, png, svg, ... It can Export to many formats: mpeg, dv, vob, realvideo, flash, theora, wav, mp3, xvid, quicktime

Installation

kdenlive can be installed from the repositories using synaptic or apt-get install kdenlive

For the most up to date version use KdenliveSVN

Tips

If the application crashes on start up delete this file by entering this in a terminal

rm ~/.kde/share/config/kdenliverc

sudo apt-get install libxcb-composite0 libxcb1-dbg libxcb1-dev - may help stability

Importing footage

The capture system does not work very well. You are probably best off using kino to capture.

Basic Editing

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kdenlive/Quickstart

Currently subtitling is not supported third party applications such as http://www.jubler.org/ may work for you.

Other documentation

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Kdenlive

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