We’re excited to announce the supply of the newest Kdenlive 23.04.0 model. It is a very particular milestone for us as this marks the primary launch because the begin of our profitable fundraising. Kdenlive is an open supply venture, and as such we attempt to be as clear as doable on how the event goes and the place the cash from the marketing campaign goes. An in depth transparency report will likely be revealed within the subsequent days.
The large spotlight in at present’s launch is the assist for nested timelines. This lets you open a number of timeline tabs to work on totally different sequences of your venture. These sequences can then be assembled to create a ultimate venture. One other addition is the assist of the Whisper speech to textual content engine, as well as of the already supported VOSK back-end. This brings an improved accuracy, assist for a lot of languages, and the chance to translate to english on the fly. And we additionally lastly mounted a longstanding situation that triggered the Kdenlive UI to point out texts in english as a substitute of the requested language.
Plenty of sprucing and bug fixing work has been finished on this launch, some highlights embody: improved dealing with of imported clips with enormous sizes, snappier playback of clips in timeline, added choice to render in full colour vary, added warning when cached information exceeds 1GB, improved filtering of the Challenge Bin to say a number of. Some nice work was additionally finished by the MLT group on our video back-end, which means that the audio cracks that would occur on some initiatives needs to be mounted within the newest MLT growth model utilized in our binary packages (AppImage, Mac and Home windows).
Many thrilling modifications are additionally on our roadmap for this yr! For the subsequent launch, we are going to enhance the results workflow, and for the top of the yr, we should always hopefully have the Qt6 model with improved GPU assist.
