Exporting

Exporting in Kdenlive means Rendering, or vice versa. Rendering turns the project’s timeline with all the edited clips into the final product: a single complete video file.

Kdenlive uses Presets or Rendering Profiles to control or determine the output. You can create your own presets and profiles.

Hit Ctrl+Return to open the rendering dialog or use the Menu ‣ File ‣ Render and click on the render button media-record.

• Select the Output file location

• Select the desired Presets. MP4-H264/AAC works nearly everywhere.

• Click on Render to File button.

Once the video is rendered you can double-click the blue banner with the file name to start playback.

Or right-click on the file name to either Add to current project or Open contained folder where the video is saved. *[RGB]: Red, Green, Blue *[VFX]: Visual Effects *[feathering]: Smoothing or blurring the edges of a feature *[LFO]: Low-Frequency Oscillation *[dB]: decibel *[LUFS]: Loudness Units Full Scale *[AI]: Artificial Intelligence *[LLM]: Large Language Model *[HSV]: Hue, Saturation, Value *[SOP/Sat]: S(lope), O(ffset), P(ower) / SATuration *[CDL]: Color Decision List *[HSL]: Hue, Saturation, Lightness - Using HSL color space is useful for subtle color changes *[px]: pixel *[hh:mm:ss:ff]: hours:minutes:seconds:frames *[Hz]: Hertz *[CIE]: Commission internationale de l'éclairage, French for International Commission on Illumination *[DCI]: Digital Cinema Initiative *[nadir]: direction pointing directly below a particular location