Kdenlive/Roadmap

Last update in August 2015. also see our Kanboard

Wish list

• Titler
  • Keep a simple text incrustation tool, but call a full featured SVG editor for complex designs
    • Base it on WebVFX (allowing to use HTML, javascript or QML) to avoid maintaing our own MLT module? Here is a small demo of what it can achieve
  • Support for subtitles (or MLT module)?
• Timeline
  • Automatic composite for clips with alpha
  • Cross fades on same track (à la Shotcut)
  • Quick switch individual/global proxy/thumbnails
  • Synchronized tracks (ripple delete / spacer tool etc would keep track groups in sync)
  • Copy/paste across projects
• Exports
  • Kdenlive 0.x format
  • OpenShot, FlowBlade, PiTiVi...
  • EDL and other exchange formats (MLT module?)
• Effects
  • UI for keyframes relative to end or in %
  • Apply GEGL/G'MIC/Blender effects (MLT module)?
• UI
  • Shortcut matching other editors (Avid, Apple, Adobe, Sony, Pinnacle etc) => Get Hot New Stuff sharing
  • Scopes as MLT modules?

• Alternative timeline view specialised on editing transitions (snapshot, just for demonstration; click for full size and see the SVG in the refactoring branch for infinite size):

More wishlist/ideas can be found on https://userbase.kde.org/Kdenlive/Ideas

Documentation

• Workflow
  • What are the git branches used for
• Code documentation
  • give big-picture views (explain to someone new to the code what it does, why it is required, and who it interacts with)

Refactoring

• Break big classes into smaller ones (targetting the refactored architecture: Cutsomtrackview, Renderer...)
• Replace XML manipulations with MLT API calls
• Port UI to QML

The proposed architecture can be found in the refactoring branch in refactoring-doc/ – find some snapshots here (not updated, just to get an impression):

See discussion here

Done!

• Port Kdenlive to KF5 (KDE Framework 5)
• Write an OpenGL display. When this is done, Movit can be integrated.
• Refactor ProjectManagement/Bin
• Project clips effects, so e.g. colour grading is done only once on the clip in the project bin and not every time in the timeline
• Render using MLT presets
• Duplicate Title clips