Video Editor for Linux

New release Flowblade 2.4 is now out.

All distributions are encouraged to update to Flowblade 2.4 and MLT 6.18 MLT 6.18 required for Flowblade 2.4 and use latest commit in fix brach here.

Release notes here.

Installing Flowblade 2.4.

Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Features
3. Releases
4. Installing Flowblade
5. Docs
6. Screenshot
7. Forum, Webpage
8. Contact

Introduction

Flowblade is a multitrack non-linear video editor for Linux released under GPL 3 license.

With Flowblade Movie Editor you can compose movies from video clips, audio clips and graphics files. Clips can be cut at the desired frames, filters can be added to clips, and you can create multilayer composite images using compositor objects.

Flowblade offers a configurable workflow - toolset, its order, default tool and certain timeline behaviours are user settable.

Features

Editing:

• 11 editing tools, 9 of which can be selected to the working set
• 4 methods to insert / overwrite / append clips on the timeline
• Drag’n’Drop clips on the timeline
• Clip and compositor parenting with other clips
• Max. 9 combined video and audio tracks available

Image compositing:

• 10 compositors. Mix, zoom, move and rotate source video with keyframed animation tools
• 19 blends. Stardand image blend modes like Add, Hardlight and Overlay are available
• 40+ pattern wipes.

Image and audio filtering:

• 50+ image filters: color correction, image effects, distorts, alpha manipulation, blur, edge detection, motion effects, freeze frame, etc.
• 30+ audio filters: keyframed volume mixing, echo, reverb, distort, etc.

Supported editable media types:

• Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
• JPEG, PNG, TGA, TIFF graphics file types
• SVG vector graphics
• Numbered frame sequences

Output encoding:

• Most common video and audio formats, depends on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs
• User can define rendering by setting FFMpeg args individually

Releases

Latest release: Flowblade Movie Editor 2.4 was released on December 2019.

Next release: Flowblade Movie Editor 2.6 is coming in June 2020.

Installing Flowblade

Installing instructions are available here.

Docs

FAQ

Known Issues

Roadmap

Release notes

Creating a translation

Dependencies

Screenshot

Screenshot 2.0 custom theme

Screenshot 1.4 dark theme

These are in the repository /docs folder.

Forum, Webpage

For questions and discussion on Flowblade we have a User Forum.

The project webpage is here.

Contact

Use the Issues tab to give bug reports or to make feature requests.

If needed, contact the project lead for additional information: janne.liljeblad@gmail.com