State of Kdenlive - 2026

Kdenlive is a community project which aims to deliver a free and open source video editing software application to allow everybody to produce high quality content in order to increase the democratization of the media. The application has a graphical user interface written in C++ with Qt and uses KDE libraries for the MLT framework written by Dan Dennedy, which relies on FFmpeg to decode and encode almost all the video and audio formats that are available today, and which hosts effects libraries like Frei0r and Movit for video, and LADSPA and SOX for audio.