Inside Kdenlive Projects: Internally Added Transitions

In order to provide a smooth user experience when working with tracks, Kdenlive has to perform some behind-the-scene tricks to make its MLT engine work as expected. This is where the so-called internally added transitions come in...

Kdenlive: Easy Compositing with "Composite and Transform"

The new Kdenlive transition Composite and Transform will make basic compositing a lot easier for probably many Kdenlive users. But the new transition also allows for some nice and very easy masking effects...

New Kdenlive Transition "Composite and Transforms"

As part of performance optimizations for the upcoming 16.08 release of Kdenlive, Jean-Baptiste threw in a new (and optimized) transition called "Composite and Transform"...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: Main Tractor and Multitrack

This time we need to do some deep dive into how MLT's <tractor> works in concert with a <multitrack> and some <transition>s: this interaction is key to understanding how Kdenlive handles tracks and compositing in its timeline...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: MLT Concepts

In order to better understand what's going on inside Kdenlive projects, some very basic knowledge on MLT concepts isn't a bad thing to start with...

Inside Kdenlive Projects: The Analyzer

Out of (sheer) curiosity I started developing a Kdenlive project analyzer as a pet project. A nice side effect of snooping around inside the XML of Kdenlive projects turned up bugs concerning the automatic audio mixing and automatic compositing of video. So what's this analyzer thing...?

Kdenlive Transitions: 3 Things in 1 -- Odds and Ends

Kdenlive's video transitions are a little bit of a misnomer, at least if the term «transition» is taken literally. This can cause some confusion, especially for Kdenlive newcomers. Kdenlive (by means of borrowing MLT terminology) puts three different things under the same «transition» umbrella...

Transition Tricks in Kdenlive

Kdenlive is a powerful non-linear video editing beast, not least thanks to its MLT engine. Unfortunately, most newcomers to Kdenlive often miss the more subtle tricks that we old hands use in our projects all the time. So how can an empty video track make matter better...?