Kdenlive UI: Title Editor -- Odds and Ends

Recently, some nice upgrades to Kdenlive's title editor (so-called titler) have landed in the soon-to-be released stable 16.04 version. So what are we to expect from the titler editor feature improvements...?

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...

Kdenlive UI: JogShuttle -- Odds and Ends

This is another example of the small polish happening here and there all over Kdenlive's user interface: the Configure Kdenlive dialog got a proper jogshuttle section icon. The previous mouse icon was simply too misleading, so I drew up the new icon as a good exercise in Breeze icon design.

Kdenlive UI: Copy & Paste Between Projects -- Odds and Ends

One of the most important new features in Kdenlive is copy & paste between projects. But instead of a forgetful clipboard, Kdenlive gives use its new library to permanently remember all your best timeline stuff...

Kdenlive UI: Split View -- Odds and Ends

Kdenlive's split view mode allows to split the clip monitor in half: left half with effects applied, right half without effects. Recently, this feature has finally  arrived in the project monitor and improves Kdenlive's workflow significantly...

Kdenlive UI: Project Bin -- Odds and Ends

Recently, Kdenlive's project tree has been revamped into the project bin. Luckily, there's more to it than just a minor name change...

Kdenlive UI: Transparent Tracks -- Odds and Ends

An important new feature of Kdenlive are transparent tracks. This feature is directly aimed at newcomers of Kdenlive, but may also please some old hands.

Kdenlive UI: New Lift/Gamma/Gain UI -- Odds and Ends

As part of the ongoing Kdenlive user interface polish, the Lift/Gamma/Gain effect got its own beautiful user interface. No more boring sliders and numeric input boxes, but colors galore!

Kdenlive UI: Effects & Transitions -- Odds and Ends

As part of the ongoing developer efforts to polish the Kdenlive user experience, the existing separate Effects Parameters and Transition Parameters panes were unified, while the lists of effects and transitions were separated...

Kdenlive UI: Monitors -- Odds and Ends

It's good to see Kdenlive development polishing more and more user interface elements. This makes using Kdenlive easier to both new-comers as well as old hands. Lately, the project and clip monitors got some UI polish.

Kdenlive UI: Red Sound -- Odds and Ends

It's good to see Kdenlive development polishing even on seemingly small, yet useful user interface details. An example of such are the mute audio state icons in Kdenlive's timeline: what do you think does a red speaker icon signify?

Kdenlive UI: Track (Un)Locked -- Odds and Ends

It's good to see Kdenlive development proceeding, even on small details, as improved icons for the user interface of Kdenlive. This is only possible because  the Kdenlive developers kindly and quickly integrate user contributions with some level of consensus. A good example of such seemingly small UI improvements are the track lock icons in the timeline. «...so what could be wrong with a lock icon?» you may ask.

USB 3.0 Broadcasts on ... wait ... 2.4GHz?!

Did you ever wondered why when plugging in some USB 3.0 devices, such as an USB 3.0 external hard disk or an USB 3.0 memory stick, your wireless keyboard and mouse almost cease to work? Keystrokes, mouse movements and mouse button presses get lost nearly all time? Or does your WiFi connection breaks down then?

VLC-Qt Woes ... SMPlayer to the Rescue

A recent upgrade of my video editing station causes a really annoying regression in VLC+Qt. I'm using Kubuntu (15.10 as of this writing) as it is a well-done KDE-centric distribution that is quickly installed and KDE works right out of the box. Unfortunately, the recent upgrade to KDE Plasma 5.5.3/KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 causes VLC to only show a small portion of any video frame. So I needed some remedy...

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...?