Open source: The video editor known from Linux is ported for macOS
The open source video editor Kdenlive, which is mainly known to users of the free Linux and BSD operating systems, but is also offered for Windows, is now also being ported to macOS. The free tool is under GNU GPLv3 and has now appeared for the first time as a “nightly version” for Apple's operating system.
Kdenlive is an acronym for “KDE Non-Linear Video Editor” and among the German-speaking users who use the open-source video editing software in most cases under Linux, it is also referred to as the “KDE non-linear video editor”. The program has its origins in the KDE project, which is also responsible for the KDE Plasma desktop environment. KDE e.V. explains the feature set of the powerful application in a video of around three and a half minutes.
With version 0.9.10 there is a “nightly build” for macOS for the first time is still designed for the x86 architecture and cannot yet run natively on the M1 processor. The detour via the x86-64 binary translation Rosetta 2 cannot yet be avoided.
As usual for a “nightly”, there are also some errors in the Version 0.9.10 for macOS can be found.
Kdenlive 0.9.10 for macOS – Known Issues
By default the mac style is used instead of the dark breeze style which recommended for Kdenlive (you can change the style in the settings menu)
The layout switcher is not visible since a native menu bar is used on mac. You can still switch the layout from the view menu (BUG 441033)
The approximately 110 megabyte Apple Disk Image Kdenlive 0.9.10 Build 913 (DMG) can now be downloaded and tested. The developers have already announced build 914 and 915.
Further information can be found in the official Kdenlive repository and the project page on the GitHub developer platform.
The KDE project is celebrating its 25th birthday
To celebrate its 25th birthday and as a tribute the German computer scientist and KDE initiator Matthias Ettrich has published the video “25th Anniversary Edition” on YouTube, which takes a journey through all epochs of desktops.
The editors would like to thank community member” moonwalker99 “, who also opened a thread on the topic in the ComputerBase forum, for pointing this out.