Post-production & VFX

Kdenlive

KDE community (KDE e.V.), Germany Desktop

Free and open source video editor built on the MLT Framework and KDE Frameworks, with multi-track editing, effects, colour correction and subtitling tools.

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What Kdenlive does

Category	Post-production & VFX
Built for	Editors on a budget, Linux users
Pricing	Free, open source (GPL-3.0)
Deployment	Desktop
Platforms	Linux, Windows, macOS
Vendor	KDE community (KDE e.V.), Germany
Website	kdenlive.org/

Only what KDE community (KDE e.V.) publishes itself is listed here, checked on 2026-09-01. Pricing is quoted as published; where a vendor does not publish a price, it says so. This directory is published by Tubes, which is listed in it as well, under Tubes.

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