Kdenlive/Workgroup/Documentation

Kdenlive is a powerful tool with a lot of features but all the different menu entries, buttons and shortcuts can be sometimes confusing. The User Manual is important for beginners as well as advanced users searching for a specific feature. However maintaining the manual is a big task the small Kdenlive Core Team can't handle alone...

And that’s were you come in! If you are an advanced user it we need you to update old sections or write explanations of new features. But even if you have the feeling you are not experienced enough to write something, you can still update screenshots! If you benefit from the work others did on Kdenlive it is a great (and easy) opportunity to give something back to the project and the community!

Join the Kdenlive Manual Contributors Telegram Channel or the Kdenlive Main Matrix Room in case you do not use telegram to get in touch.

Getting Started

To edit a wiki page you need a KDE Identity / MyKDE Account.

If you never worked with the KDE Wikis before its the best to look at these instructions:

• Task and Tools: Add New Pages, Update Existing Content, Working with Languages
• Page elements: Basic Structure of a Wiki page
• Typographical Guidelines
• More markup help

Take and Upload Screenshots

Here are some general tips on how to take screenshots and how to update an image in the kde wikis.

If you want to add or update a screenshot in the Kdenlive manual you should follow this rules:

• Use the the Breeze Dark Theme (Settings → Color Theme → Breeze Dark)
• Use the the Breeze Icons (Settings → Force Breeze Icon Theme)

Note

Be aware that updating the pictures on the manual can sometimes take several hours. When the update is not done within 24 hours you should consider to open a sysadmin ticket and as for a refresh.

TODO List

The manual hasn't got much love in the past years. The main goal is to complete, update and translate the manual.

• Review the manual and identify outdated content, and screenshots
  • 2021-05-14 - Updated screenshots and content to UI 21.04 from the start to "Effects and Transitions list"
• Move (and update) content from the website https://kdenlive.org to the manual (maybe create a "Howto" and "Behind the scene" chapter): see section "Texts we want to move from the website" below.
  • Tutorials https://kdenlive.org/en/project/
  • Toolbox https://kdenlive.org/en/toolbox/

List of Features

Clip Monitor, Project Monitor

Clip Monitor, Project Monitor

Feature	Comment	Status
Zoombar (Clip Monitor)	https://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Kdenlive/Manual/Monitors#Monitor_zoombar	21.04
Edit Mode (Effects)		?
Preview Resolution	https://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Kdenlive/Manual/Monitors#Preview_resolution	21.04
Overlayer	https://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Kdenlive/Manual/Monitors#Monitor_toolbar	actual version
Multi Track View (Project Monitor)	I assume this is meant https://userbase.kde.org/index.php?title=Kdenlive/Manual/Monitors#Multicam_Editing	actual version
Extract Frame		?
Interpolation		?
Deinterlacer		?
Monitor Gamma		?
Realtime		?

Effects

Effects

Feature	Comment	Status
Rotoscoping		?
LUT		?

Project Bin

Project Bin

Feature	Comment	Status
View mode		?
Tags	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Project_Tree	actual status
Rating	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Project_Tree	actual status
Filter	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Project_Tree	actual status
Sorting		?
Video Preview		?
Subclips		?
Clip Guides		?
Replace, Locate Clip	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Clip_Menu/Replace_Clip	actual status
Detect Scene Job		?
Speedchange Job	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Clip_Menu/Duplicate_Clip_with_speed_change	to be checked if outdated
Stabilization Job	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Clip_Menu/Stabilize	to be checked if outdated
Proxies (and external Proxies)	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Projects_and_Files/Clips#Proxy_clips	to be checked if outdated

Timeline

Timeline

Feature	Comment	Status
Tools: Selection, Razor, Spacer		?
Modes: Normal, Overwrite, Insert		?
Timeline Guides	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing	to be checked outdated
Selection: rubberband,…		?
Mixes (Inline Transitions)	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing#Same_track_transitions	actual version
Change Speed		?
Tracks: Order, Rename, Insert, Delete		?
Master Track	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline_Menu/Tracks#Master_effects	to be checked maybe outdated
Composition Mode		?
Zoombar	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline	actual version
Thumbnails: All, only in/out,…	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline#Configurable_thumbnails_for_each_track	actual version
Snapping		?
Align Audio		?
Remove Space		?

Global Settings

Global Settings

Feature	Comment	Status
Misc		?
Timeline Settings		?
Project Defaults		?
Environment		?
Colors		?
Capture		?
Jog Shuttle		?
Playback		?
Transcode		?

Unordered Features

Feature	Comment	Status
Project Settings (=New Project)
DVD Wizard	Maybe removed soon	?
Transcode Clip		?
OpentimelineIO		?
Layouts	Save, Load (& Chooser in the Mainwindow), Manage, Dock Area Orientation, Show Title Bars	?
Audio Mixer		?
Audio Spectrum		?
Clip Properties		?
Compositions		?
Effect / Composition Stack		?
Scopes: Histogram, Waveform, Vectorscope, RGB Parade		?
Library		?
Media Browser / Import Dialog		?
Color Clips		?
Slideshows		?
Generators		?
Online Resources	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Project_Menu/Online_Resources	to be checked if all actual
Project Notes		?
Speech-to-Text: Subtitles and Text Edit	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing#Speech_to_text	actual version
Undo history		?
Archive Project		?
Backup / Autosave System		?
Rendering		?
Cache Management		?
Config Wizard		?
Style, Theme, Icons		?
Configure Keyboard Shortcuts		?
Reset Config		?
Subtitles: Track, Dock Widget, Im- / Export	https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Manual/Timeline/Editing#Subtitle	actual version
Keymap Information		?

Texts we want to move from the website

These texts in the list below should be moved to the user manual:

• Check if the text is still relevant.
• If the text is not relevant anymore change the status in the table to DEPRECATED: NO MOVE
• If the text is still relevant look if there is already a similar instruction in the manual
• Either create a new page and move copy the text or merge the text to the existing one. Change Status to MOVED and add the new (wiki) url

"Project" Stuff from https://kdenlive.org/en/project

Website Url	Wiki Url / Comment	Status
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/3-point-editing-intro/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/working-with-extracted-frames-in-higher-resolution-than-project-profile/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/color-hell-ffmpeg-transcoding-and-preserving-bt-601/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/fixing-unwanted-slow-audio-fade-ins-with-some-usb-audio-cards/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/the-smooth-keyframe-interpolation/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/insert-overwrite-advanced-timeline-editing/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/howto-fading-inout-kdenlive-titles/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/editing-audio-volume-with-keyframes/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/adding-meta-data-to-mp4-video/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/compositing-with-transparency/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/kdenlive-transitions/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-preview-rendering/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/library-clips-with-image-sequences-titles-color-clips/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/the-library-copy-paste-between-projects/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/automatically-raising-the-properties-pane/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/extract-frame-to-project/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-track-header-improvements/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/cure-projects-with-odd-audio-mixing-behavior/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-track-compositing/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/cure-projects-with-oddly-behaving-transparent-tracks/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/selective-timeline-clip-disabling/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/manage-cached-data/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/disable-all-timeline-effects/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-track-leds/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/effects-everywhere/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/configuring-the-default-transition-duration/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/timeline-clips-transitions-appearance/

Technical that stuff should go to the community wiki page:

Technical stuff

Website Url	Wiki Url / Comment	Status
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/mlt-concepts/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/mlt-basic-producers/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/kdenlive-proxy-clips/
https://kdenlive.org/en/project/kdenlive-project-file-format/ and https://kdenlive.org/en/project/kdenlive-projects/	https://community.kde.org/Kdenlive/Development/File_format	MOVED