Video editing/Video editing with Kdenlive

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Présentation

Kdenlive is the linear video editing program for Kde. In it's team one can find -through others- Gilles Caulier, a french guy already in charge of Digikam (photo editing).

The program kdenlive is setup with the non-professional user in mind, and it provides semi-professionals capabilities.

Kdenlive is still not fully mature nor fully stable version, plus it handles some proprietary formats, so you can't find it in the packaged openSUSE (however it is available via the openSUSE Packman packagers). The transition from v.0.5 to v.0.6 svn brought significant improvements in functionality and stability. Most of the kdenlive team effort is now being spent with a significant re-write, creating a KDE-4 version of kdenlive.

Its home page is here http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/index.php. Note that it's have already a quite complete help, saying how one can edit a movie from his own shots.

The packman packager page (for openSUSE) is here: http://packman.links2linux.org/package/kdenlive

If you are a photographer, you should instead consider DigiKam (available in openSUSE).

Installation instructions

Kdenlive is now available as a packaged rpm prepared by the Packman packagers. It can be installed via YaST if one first adds packman to one's repositories. For guidance on how to setup one's repositories, go here http://opensuse-community.org/Repositories and per the instructions for one's openSUSE version, add OSS, NON-OSS, Main Update, and Packman.

Once the repository is setup then install kdenlive either via yast, or install kdenlive via a command line (with openSUSE-10.2, 10.3 or 11.0), with root permissions, by typing:

  zypper install kdenlive

With openSUSE-10.3 and openSUSE-11.0, one can also install kdenlive via the openSUSE one-click install, where there is a link on the Packman packager web site for kdenlive on openSUSE-10.3/11.0(KDE-3.5.x) and kdenlive on openSUSE-11.0(KDE-4)