Kdenlive is great! I just used this recently to create some transitions with transparency. I normally use DaVinci Resolve but I couldn't figure out how to export a video with a straight alpha channel, only premultiplied (it only lets you do this for individual clips, not compound clips or a whole timeline).
I think it's fair to say Kdenlive exposes much more power to the user, but I felt that I had a bit of learning to do to understand a few things which have opinionated defaults in programs like Davincei Resolve. For instance, I had to use a composition between two tracks and choose the type of compositing to use between them in order to get transparency exported, whereas in other programs this would default to add or multiply which behaves in a predictable way with less effort (but with less control).
In saying that it feels like Kdenlive is an incredible amalgamation of very powerful plugins and parts!
I wish it had a bezier curve editor for things like fades or tweaking keyframe animations.
After a while I switched to blender (since I used it to create the source footage) but it was a little glitchy, the video somehow getting out of sync with animated opacity and it confused me how you "Render Animation" in blender which is the same option as for rendering your (3D) Scene in blender, and where to find the option to turn off the video editor composition which overrides this as soon as you start adding clips to the video editor. It doesn't really compare as it's just blender, with all it's intricacies, and video editing bolted on to it, whereas Kdenlive is just about video editing.
I subscribe this comment, non-linear interpolation using curves would be extremely useful.
Another obvious thing I often miss is the ability to change the length (duration) of static image clips in the project bin (currently? - haven't tried the latest version yet - the only way is to set a length in the settings before importing). It seems like it doesn't matter at first, since it's a static image, but start adding effects and keyframes and any resizing done in the timeline can mess everything up.
That's another great suggestion, and probably a pretty easy contribution to tackle for someone. I'll make a mental note to look in to it next time I'm on holiday.
I think it's fair to say Kdenlive exposes much more power to the user, but I felt that I had a bit of learning to do to understand a few things which have opinionated defaults in programs like Davincei Resolve. For instance, I had to use a composition between two tracks and choose the type of compositing to use between them in order to get transparency exported, whereas in other programs this would default to add or multiply which behaves in a predictable way with less effort (but with less control).
In saying that it feels like Kdenlive is an incredible amalgamation of very powerful plugins and parts!
I wish it had a bezier curve editor for things like fades or tweaking keyframe animations.
After a while I switched to blender (since I used it to create the source footage) but it was a little glitchy, the video somehow getting out of sync with animated opacity and it confused me how you "Render Animation" in blender which is the same option as for rendering your (3D) Scene in blender, and where to find the option to turn off the video editor composition which overrides this as soon as you start adding clips to the video editor. It doesn't really compare as it's just blender, with all it's intricacies, and video editing bolted on to it, whereas Kdenlive is just about video editing.
Anyway, great work!