The developer is also working on a pretty big update

Mar 5, 2015 14:17 GMT  ·  By

Kdenlive is powerful multi-track video editor, which supports DV, AVCHD and HDV editing. The developer has announced that the Kdenlive will be a part of the KDE Applications family, starting with the 15.04 branch.

In case you are confused about the version number, we have to specify that it has nothing to do with Ubuntu 15.04. It's just using a similar version number. In this case, that particular branch of KDE Applications will launch in April, hence the 15.04 version.

The developer of Kdenlive has ported his application to KF5 (KDE Frameworks) just time to get accepted. That means that an important update was also done and now the app has jumped in version from 0.9.10 straight to 15.04. It will be a little bit confusing for the long time users of Kdenlive, but the version number is not all that important.

Kdenlive 15.04 promises more features for the future

The fact that Kdenlive has been ported for KDE Frameworks 5 opens up a wealth of opportunities for the application. We should see some major improvements in the near future, making Kdenlive a real option for video editing on the Linux platform.

"Being based on KF5 makes Kdenlive future-proof and opens doors for potential new horizons (platforms, design)... Being part of KDE family changes things more 'socially' than 'technically. Changes to the source are now sent for review systematically, releases preparation and delivery will now be handled by experts under a fixed planning, we are now mentored to take part to initiatives like SoC... and exchanges with other devs are now flowing much more naturally," reads the official website.

The developers also added some new features like ripple delete and stem audio processing, and he also repaired some important issues. You can download the source package for Kdenlive 15.04 Dev, but you it's still under development and you will need to compile it. For more details about various distros, please make sure to check the download entry on the official website.