Kdenlive/Manual/Effects And Transitions
Alphabetical List of Effects and Compositions
Please note: The effects and compositions included will differ depending on the available plug-ins on the specific packaging on each operating system. For the greatest compatability, please use the AppImage version of Kdenlive.
| Effect or Transition Name | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Point Balance | Video Effect | Color and Image correction | Balances colors along with 3 points (frei0r.three_point_balance) |
| 3D FFT Denoiser | Video Effect | Grain and Noise | Denoise frames using 3D FFT (Frequency Domain Filtering) (avfilter.fftdnoiz) |
| 3-level Threshold | Video Effect | Stylize | Dynamic 3-level thresholding (frei0r.threelay0r) |
| 4 x 4 pole allpass | Audio Effect | Steve Harris’ SWH plugins | LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1218) |
| Acontrast | Audio Effect | Audio | Simple audio dynamic range compression/expansion filter. |
| Acrusher | Audio Effect | Audio | Reduce audio bit resolution (avfilter.acrusher) |
| Acue | Audio Effect | Audio | Delay filtering to match a cue. (avfilter.acue) |
| addition | Compositions | - | Perform a RGB[A] addition operation of the pixel sources. (frei0r.addition) |
| addition_alpha | Compositions | - | Perform a RGB[A] addition_alpha operation of the pixel sources. (frei0r.addition_alpha) |
| Addroi | Compositions | - | Add region of interest to frame. (avfilter.addroi) |
| Adeclick | Audio Effect | Audio | Remove impulsive noise from input audio. (avfilter.adeclick) |
| Adenorm | Audio Effect | Audio | Remedy denormals by adding extremely low-level noise. (afilter.adenorm) |
| Aderivative | Audio Effect | Audio | Compute derivative of input audio. (avfilter.aderivative) |
| Aexciter | Audio Effect | Audio | Enhance high frequency part of audio. (avfilter.aexciter) |
| Afftdn | Audio Effect | Audio | Denoise audio samples using FFT (avfilter.afftdn) |
| Afreqshift | Audio Effect | Audio | Apply frequency shifting to input audio. (avfilter.afreqshift) |
| Aintergral | Audio Effect | Audio | Compute integral of input audio. (avfilter.aintegral) |
| Aliasing | Audio Effect | Steve Harris’ SWH plugins | LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1407) |
| Alimiter | Audio Effect | Audio | Audio lookahead limiter. (avfilter.alimiter) |
| Allpass | Audio Effect | Audio | Apply a two-pole all-pass filter. (avfilter.allpass) |
| Allpass delay line cubic spline interpolation | Audio Effect | Steve Harris’ SWH plugins | LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1897) |
| Allpass delay line linear interpolation | Audio Effect | Steve Harris’ SWH plugins | LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1896) |
| Allpass delay line noninterpolating | Audio Effect | Steve Harris’ SWH plugins | LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1895) |
| Aloop | Audio Effect | Audio | Loop audio samples. (avfilter.aloop) |
| Alpha gradient | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Fill the alpha channel with the specified gradient (frei0r.alphagrad) |
| Alpha operations | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Display and manipulation of the alpha channel (frei0r.alpha0ps) |
| Alpha shapes | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Draws simple shapes into the alpha channel (frei0r.alphaspot) |
| Alpha Strobing | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Strobes the alpha channel to 0. Many other filters overwrite the alpha channel, in that case this needs to be last. (strobe) |
| alphaatop | Transition | - | |
| alphain | Transition | - | |
| alphaout | Transition | - | |
| alphaover | Transition | - | |
| alphaxor | Transition | - | |
| AM pitchshifter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Apply LUT | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Artificial latency | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Audio Divider (Suboctave Generator) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Audio Levels | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Audio Pan | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Audio Spectrum Filter | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| Audio Wave | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| Auto Mask | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Hide a selected zone and follow its movements (autotrack_rectangle) |
| Auto phaser | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Balance | Audio Effect | Audio Channels | |
| Barry's Satan Maximiser | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Bezier Curves | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Binarize | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Binarize Dynamically | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| bluescreen0r | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Color to alpha (blit SRCALPHA) (frei0r.bluescreen0r) |
| Blur | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Bode frequency shifter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Bode frequency shifter (CV) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Box Blur | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Box Blur | Video Effect | misc | |
| Brightness | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Brightness (keyframable) | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| burn | Transition | - | |
| Cairo Affine Blend | Transition | - | |
| Cairo Blend | Transition | - | |
| cairogradient | Video Effect | misc | |
| cairoimagegrid | Video Effect | misc | |
| Cartoon | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Charcoal | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Chebyshev distortion | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Chroma Hold | Video Effect | Color | |
| Chroma Key: Basic | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Make Selected Color transparent (chroma) |
| Color Distance | Video Effect | misc | |
| Color Effect | Video Effect | misc | |
| Chroma Key: Advanced (Color Selection) | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Chroma Key with more advanced options (e.g. different color models). Use if basic chroma key is not working effectively (frei0r.select0r) |
| color_only | Transition | - | |
| Colorchannelmixer | Video Effect | misc | |
| Colorize | Video Effect | Color | |
| colorlevels | Video Effect | misc | |
| colormatrix | Video Effect | misc | |
| Comb delay line cubic spline interpolation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Comb delay line linear interpolation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Comb delay line noninterpolating | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Comb Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Composite | Transition | - | |
| Composite and transform | Transition | - | |
| Constant Signal Generator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Contrast | Video Effect | Color | |
| Copy Channels | Audio Effect | Audio Channels | |
| Corners | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Crop Scale and Tilt | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Crossfade | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Crossfade (4 outs) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Crossover distortion | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Curves | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Dance | Video Effect | misc | |
| darken | Transition | - | |
| DC Offset Remover | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Dctdnoiz | Video Effect | misc | |
| Deband | Video Effect | misc | |
| Decimator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Declipper | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Defish | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Delayorama | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Delogo | Video Effect | misc | |
| Denoiser | Video Effect | Enhancement | |
| Deshake | Video Effect | misc | |
| Despill | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Remove unwanted contamination of foreground colors, caused by reflected color of greenscreen or bluescreen (avfilter.despill) |
| difference | Transition | - | |
| Dilation | Video Effect | misc | |
| Diode Processor | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Dissolve | Transition | - | |
| Distort | Video Effect | Distort | |
| dither | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| DJ EQ | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| DJ EQ (mono) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| DJ flanger | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| dodge | Transition | - | |
| Drawbox | Video Effect | misc | |
| Drawgrid | Video Effect | misc | |
| Dust | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Dynamic Text | Video Effect | misc | |
| Dyson compressor | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Edge Crop | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Edge glow | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Edgedetect | Video Effect | misc | |
| Elbg | Video Effect | misc | |
| Emboss | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Equaliz0r | Video Effect | Color | |
| Erosion | Video Effect | misc | |
| Exponential signal decay | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Fade from Black (video effect) | Video Effect | fade | |
| Fade in (audio effect) | Audio Effect | fade | |
| Fade out (audio effect) | Audio Effect | fade | |
| Fade to Black (video effect) | Video Effect | fade | |
| Fast Lookahead limiter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Fast overdrive | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Fftfilt | Video Effect | misc | |
| Flanger | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Flippo | Video Effect | misc | |
| FM Oscillator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Foldover distortion | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Fractionally Addressed Delay Line | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Freeze | Video Effect | motion | |
| Frequency tracker | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Gain | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| Gamma | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Gate | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Giant flange | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glame Bandpass Analog Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glame Bandpass Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| GLAME Butterworth Highpass | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| GLAME Butterworth Lowpass | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glame Butterworth X-over Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glame Highpass Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glame Lowpass Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Glitch0r | Video Effect | misc | |
| Glow | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Gong beater | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Gong model | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Gradfun | Video Effect | misc | |
| Grain | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| grain_extract | Transition | - | |
| Greyscale | Video Effect | Color | |
| GSM simulator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| GVerb | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Hard Limiter | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| hardlight | Transition | - | |
| Harmonic generator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Hermes Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Higher Quality Pitch Scaler | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Hilbert transformer | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Histeq | Video Effect | misc | |
| Histogram | Video Effect | misc | |
| Hqdn3d | Video Effect | misc | |
| Hqx | Video Effect | misc | |
| Hue | Transition | - | |
| Hue shift | Video Effect | Color | |
| Impulse convolver | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Invert | Video Effect | Color | |
| Inverter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| K-Means Clustering | Video Effect | misc | |
| Karaoke | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Key Spill Mop Up | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Reduces the visability of key color spill in chroma keying (frei0r.keyspillm0pup) |
| L/C/R Delay | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Lens Correction | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Lenscorrection | Video Effect | misc | |
| LetterB0xed | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Levels | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| LFO Phaser | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Lift/Gamma/Gain | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Light Show | Video Effect | misc | |
| lighten | Transition | - | |
| LS Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Lumakey | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | This filter modifies image’s alpha channel as a function of its luma value. This is used together with a compositor to combine two images so that bright or dark areas of source image are overwritten on top of the destination image. (lumakey) |
| LumaLiftGainGamma | Video Effect | Color | |
| Luminance | Video Effect | Color | |
| Mag's Notch Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Matrix Spatialiser | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Matrix: MS to Stereo | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Matrix: Stereo to MS | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Matte | Transition | - | |
| Medians | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Mirror | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Modulatable delay | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Mono Amplifier (ver >= 0.9.10) | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| Mono to Stereo splitter | Audio Effect | Audio Channels | |
| Motion Tracker | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Select a zone to follow its movements (opencv.tracker) |
| Multiband EQ | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| multiply | Transition | - | |
| Multivoice Chorus | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Mute | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| NDVI filter | Video Effect | misc | |
| Nervous | Video Effect | misc | |
| Nikon D90 Stairstepping fix | Video Effect | Enhancement | |
| Normalise | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| nosync0r | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Obscure | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| Oldfilm | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Oscilloscope | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| overlay | Transition | - | |
| Pad | Video Effect | misc | |
| Pan | Audio Effect | Audio Channels | |
| Pitch Scaler | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Pixelize | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Plate reverb | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Pointer cast distortion | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Position and Zoom | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Posterize | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Pp | Video Effect | misc | |
| Primaries | Video Effect | Color | |
| Rate shifter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Rectangular Alpha mask (Formerly Mask0Mate) | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Creates a square alpha-channel mask (frei0r.mask0mate) |
| Regionalize | Video Effect | misc | |
| Retro Flanger | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Reverse Delay (5s max) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| RGB adjustment | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| RGB Parade | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| rgbnoise | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Rgbsplit0r | Video Effect | misc | |
| Ringmod with LFO | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Ringmod with two inputs | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Rotate (keyframable) | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Rotate and Shear | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Rotoscoping | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Keyframable vector based rotoscoping (rotoscoping) |
| Saturation | Transition | - | |
| Saturation | Video Effect | Color | |
| SC1 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| SC2 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| SC3 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| SC4 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| SC4 mono | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| scanline0r | Video Effect | misc | |
| Scratchlines | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| screen | Transition | - | |
| SE4 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sepia | Video Effect | Color | |
| Shape Alpha | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask, and Keying | Create an alpha channel (transparency) based on another resource (shape) |
| Sharpen | Video Effect | Enhancement | |
| Shuffleplanes | Video Effect | misc | |
| sigmoidaltransfer | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Signal sifter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Signalstats | Video Effect | misc | |
| Simple amplifier | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple Delay Line | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple delay line cubic spline interpolation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple delay line linear interpolation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple Delay Line, noninterpolating | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple High Pass Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Simple Low Pass Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sine Oscillator (Freq:Audio,Amp:audio) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sine Oscillator (Freq:Audio,Amp:control) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sine Oscillator (Freq:control,Amp:audio) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Single band parametric | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sinus wavewrapper | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Slide | Transition | - | |
| Smartblur | Video Effect | misc | |
| Smooth Decimator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sobel | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Softglow | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| softlight | Transition | - | |
| SOP/Sat | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Sox band | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox bass | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox echo | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox flanger | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox gain | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox phaser | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Sox stretch | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Spill Suppress | Video Effect | Enhancement | |
| Spot Remover | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Replace an area with interpolated pixels. The new pixel values are interpolated from the nearest pixel. |
| Square Blur | Video Effect | Blur and Hide | |
| State Variable Filter | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Step Demuxer | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Stereo Amplifier (ver >= 0.9.10) | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| subtract | Transition | - | |
| Surround matrix encoder | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Swap channels | Audio Effect | Audio Channels | |
| Tape Delay Simulation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Technicolor | Video Effect | Color | |
| TehRoxx0r | Video Effect | misc | |
| Threshold | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Timeout indicator | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| Tint | Video Effect | Color | |
| Transform | Video Effect | Crop and transform | |
| Transient mangler | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Transparency | Video Effect | Alpha, Mask and Keying | Tunes the alpha channel. (Frei0r.transparency) |
| Transpose | Video Effect | misc | |
| Triple band parametric with shelves | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| UV Map | Transition | - | |
| value | Transition | - | |
| Valve rectifier | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Valve saturation | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Vectorscope | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| Vertigo | Video Effect | misc | |
| Video Quality Measurement | Transition | - | |
| Video Values | Video Effect | Analysis and Data | |
| Vignette | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Vignette Effect | Video Effect | Artistic | |
| Volume (keyframable) | Audio Effect | Audio Correction | |
| VyNil (Vinyl Effect) | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Wave | Video Effect | Distort | |
| Wave shaper | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Wave Terrain Oscillator | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| White Balance | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| White Balance (LMS Space) | Video Effect | Color Correction | |
| Wipe | Transition | - | |
| Xbr | Video Effect | misc | |
| z-1 | Audio Effect | Audio | |
| Zmq | Video Effect | misc | |
| Zoompan | Video Effect | misc |