Kdenlive/Manual/Effects And Transitions

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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 Compositions - The alpha ATOP operation (frei0r.alphatop)
Alphain Compositions - The alpha IN operation (frei0r.alphain)
Alphaout Compositions - The alpha OUT operation (frei0r.alphaout)
Alphaover Compositions - The alpha OVER operation (frei0r.alphaover)
Alphaxor Compositions - The alpha XOR operation (frei0r.alphaxor)
AM pitchshifter Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1433)
Anlmdn Audio Effect Audio Reduce broadband noise from stream using Non-Local Means. (avfilter.anlmdn)
Aphaser Audio Effect Audio Add a phasing effect to the audio. (avfilter.aphaser)
Aphaseshift Audio Effect Audio Apply phase shifting to input audio. (avfilter.aphaseshift)
Apply LUT Video Effect Color and Image correction Apply a Look Up Table (LUT) to the video. A LUT is an easy way to correct the color of a video. Supported formats: 3dl (AfterEffects), .cube (Iridas), .dat (DaVinci), .m3d (Pandora) (avfilter.lut3d)
Apulsator Audio Effect Audio Audio Pulsator. (avfilter.apulsator)
Arndn Audio Effect Audio Reduce noise from speech using recurrent Neural Networks. (avfilter.arnndn)
Artificial latency Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1914)
Asidedata Audio Effect Audio Manipulate audio frame side data. (avfilter.asidedata)
Asoftclip Audio Effect Audio Audio soft clipper. (avfilter.asoftclip)
Asubboost Audio Effect Audio Show time domain statistics about audio frames (avfilter.astats)
Astats Audio Effect Audio Boost subwoofer frequencies. (avfilter.asubboost)
Asubcut Audio Effect Audio Cut subwoofer frequencies. (avfilter.asubcut)
Asupercut Audio Effect Audio Cut super frequencies. (avfilter.asupercut)
Asuperpass Audio Effect Audio Apply high order butterworth band-pass filter. (avfilter.asuperpass)
Asuperstop Audio Effect Audio Apply high order Butterworth bad-stop filter. (avfilter.asuperstop)
Audio Divider (Suboctave Generator) Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1186)
Audio Equalizer (avfilter) Audio Effect Audio Apply two-pole peaking equalization (EQ) filter (avfilter.equalizer)
Audio Levels Audio Effect Audio Compute the audio amplitude. (audiolevel)
Audio Pan Audio Effect Audio Pan an audio channel, adjust balance, or adjust fade. (panner)
Audio Spectrum Filter Video Effect On Master An audio visualation fitler that draws an audio spectrum on the image. (audiospectrum)
Audio Wave Video Effect On Master Display the audio waveform instead of the video (audiowave)
Audio Waveform Filter Audio Effect Audio An audio visualization filter that draws an audio waveform on the image. (audiowaveform)
Audiomap Audio Effect Audio audiomap (audiomap)
Auto Mask Video Effect Alpha, Mask and Keying Hide a selected zone and follow its movements (autotrack_rectangle)
Auto phaser Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1219)
Average Blur Video Effects Blur and Sharpen Apply average blur filter. (avfilter.avgblur)
Bandpass Audio Effect Audio Apply a two-pole band-pass filter. (avfilter.bandpass)
Bandreject Audio Effect Audio Apply a two-pole Butterworth band-reject filter. (avfilter.bandreject)
Audiomap Audio Effect Audio audiomap (audiomap)
Balance Video Effect Color and Image correction Extracts Blue from Image (frei0r.B)
Barry's Satan Maximiser Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1408)
Bass Audio Effect Audio Boost or cut lower frequencies (avfilter.bass)
Bezier Curves Video Effect Color and Image Correction Color curves adjustment (frei0r.curves)
Bilateral Video Effect Misc Apply Bilateral filter. (avfilter.bilateral)
Binarize Video Effect Stylize Make monochrome clip (threshold)
Binarize Dynamically Video Effect Stylize Dynamic thresholding (frei0r.twolay0r)
Biquad Audio Effect Audio Apply a biquad IIR filter with the given coefficients. (avftiler.biquad)
bluescreen0r Video Effect Alpha, Mask and Keying Color to alpha (blit SRCALPHA) (frei0r.bluescreen0r)
Blur – Deprecated Video Effect Deprecated Blur using 2D IIR filters (exponential, lowpass, gaussian) (frei0r.IIRblur)
Bode frequency shifter Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1431)
Bode frequency shifter (CV) Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1432)
Box Blur Video Effect Blur and Sharpen Box blur (separate horizontal and vertical blur) (boxblur)
Box Blur Video Effect Blur and Sharpen Apply a boxblur algorithm to the input video (avfilter.boxblur)
Brightness Video Effect Color and Image correction Adjusts the brightness of a source image (frei0r.brightness)
Brightness (keyframable) Video Effect Color and Image correction Change the image brightness with keyframes (brightness)
burn Compositions - Perform an RGB[A] dodge operation between the pixel sources, using the generalized algorithm: D = saturation of 255 or depletion of 0, of ((255-A)*256) / (b+1) (frei0r.burn)
BurningTV – Deprecated]] Video Effect Deprecated burningtv
Bw0r Video Effect Color and Image correction Turns image Black/White (Frei0r.bw0r)
Cairo Affine Blend Compositions - Composites second input on first input applying user-defined transformations, opacity, and blend mode. (frei0r.cairoaffineblend)
Cairo Blend Compositions - Composies second input on the first input with user-defined blend mode and opacity. (frei0r.cairoblend)
Cairogradient Video Effect Generate Draws a gradient on top of image. Filter is given gradient start and end points, oclors and opacities.
Cairoimagegrid Video Effect Generate Create a video grid (frei0r.cairoimagegrid)
Cartoon Video Effect Stylize Cartoonify video, do a form of edge detect (frei0r.cartoon)
Cartoon Video Effect Misc Contrast Adaptive Sharpen. (avfilter.cas)
Charcoal Video Effect Stylize Charcoal drawing effect (charcoal)
Chebyshev distortion Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1430)
Chroma Hold Video Effect Color and Image correction Make image greyscale except for chosen color (chroma_hold)
Chroma Hold Video Effect Color and Image correction Removes all color information for all colors except for a certain one. (avfilter.chromahold)
Chroma Key: Basic Video Effect Alpha, Mask and Keying Make Selected Color transparent (chroma)


Chroma Shift Video Effect Stylize Shift chroma pixels horizontally and/or vertically. (avfilter.chromashift)
Chromanr Video Effect Misc Reduce chrominance noise. (avfilter.chromanr)
Ciescope Video Effect Utility Video CIE scope (avfilter.ciescope)
CMYK adjust (avfilter) Video Effect Color and Image correction Apply CMYK correction to specific color ranges (avfilter.selectivecolor)
Color balance Video Effect Color and Image correction Modify indensity of primary colors (red, green and blue) of input frames. (avfilter.colorbalance)
Color Channel Mixer Video Effect Color and Image correction Modifies a color channel by adding the vlues associated to the other channels of the same pixels. (avfilter.colorchannelmixer)
Color Distance Video Effect Stylize Calculates the disstance between the selected color and the current pixel and uses that value as a new pixel value 9frei0r.colordistance)
Color Effect Video Effect Stylize Applies a pre-made color effect to image (frei0r.colortap)
Color Hold Video Effect Color and Image correction Remove all color information all RGB colors except for certain one. (avfilter.colorhold)
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 Compositions - Perform a conversion to color only of the source input using the hue and saturation vludes of input2. (frei0r.color_only)
Colorcontrast Video Effect Stylize Calculates the disstance between the selected color and the current pixel and uses that value as a new pixel value 9frei0r.colordistance)
Colorcorrect Video Effect Stylize Applies a pre-made color effect to image (frei0r.colortap)
Colorize Video Effect Color and Image correction Colorizes image to selected hue, saturation and lightness (frei0r.colorize)
Colorize Video Effect Color and Image correction Overlay a solid color on the video stream. (avfilter.colorize)
Color Levels Video Effect Color and Image correction Adjust video input frames using levels. (avfilter.colorlevels)
Color Matrix Video Effect Image Adjustment Covert color matrix. (avfilter.colormatrix)
Colortemperature Video Effect Misc Adjust color temperature of video. (avfilter.colortemperature)
Comb delay line cubic spline interpolation Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1888)
Comb delay line linear interpolation Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1887)
Comb delay line noninterpolating Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1889)
Comb Filter Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa.1190)
Comb Splitter Audio Effect Steve Harris’ SWH plugins LADSPA plugin (ladspa 1411)
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