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Clip Properties

You can display and edit clip properties by selecting a clip in the Project Bin and using the Menu ‣ Media ‣ Clip Properties, or selecting Clip Properties from the right-click clip context menu.

Clip Properties are displayed in their own widget. You enable it from the Menu ‣ View ‣ Clip Properties. If it is not enabled when selecting Clip Properties as described above, Kdenlive will automatically enable it. By default, the widget is part of the same workspace dock as the project bin. As with any other widget, you can move it around within the same dock or put it to another or even into its own dock. See the chapter about Workspace Layout.

The Clip Properties widget has several tabs[[1]]:

  • edit-findFile Info - displays general File Info

  • document-editProperties - allows editing some Properties

  • kdenlive-audioAudio Properties - displays properties of the audio stream

File Info​

The first tab is the File Info tab. It displays general information about the file, its streams, and other technical data.

At the top, the filename with its full path is displayed as a link. Clicking it opens your OS file manager at that particular location.

Properties​

The Properties tab displays those properties of the clip that Kdenlive allows you to change.

Check the property you want to change, and then enter or select the new value.

Duration:

The duration of the original clip. Not really useful for video clips, but color clips, title clips, images, and image sequences. However, if set for a video clip the following rules apply: If the new duration is shorter than the clip duration, then the clip is trimmed. If the new duration is longer than the clip duration, then the last image is repeated (freeze frame) until the new duration is reached.

Aspect Ratio:

The current aspect ratio of the clip

Proxy clip:

If proxy clips are enabled for the project (see the chapter Project Settings), you create a proxy file for the selected clip. If a proxy file exists already, this is checked and the encoder format is displayed. Click on edit-deleteDelete proxy file to delete the proxy file. The application-menu icon opens a flyout with additional options:

Frame rate:

The current frame rate in fps

Scanning:

The current scan format (interlaced or progressive)

Field order:

The current field order (only applicable to interlaced scanning)

Disable auto-rotate:

If checked will prevent the image to be rotated according to its embedded rotation setting (not present in all images)

Color space:

The current color space of the clip

Color range:

The current color range of the clip. This is mostly relevant for videos intended for broadcasting.

Sequence Properties​

When a sequence is selected in the project bin you can change the timecode offset. More details see under sequence timecode offset.

Audio Properties​

Choose which audio channel[[2]] should be enabled or disabled.

Rename with double click.

Select each channel in the list individually to perform any of the following functions:

Normalize:

Normalize the channel

Swap channels:

Swap the channels

Copy channel:

Copy a channel on the other one

Gain:

Adjust the volume

Adjusting the Audio sync in increments of one millisecond (1 ms) applies to all channels.

Notes

The Marker tab has been removed. Clip markers are shown in their own widget Marker. You enable it in Menu ‣ View ‣ Markers. More details see Markers.

[[1]]

The Metadata and Analysis tabs do not display anything at the moment.

[[2]]

There is a difference between audio streams and audio channels. Kdenlive does display the different audio streams with a list. Consumer video camera mostly have only 1 audio stream with i.e. 6 channels, like 5.1 audio. Kdenlive does not allow manipulation of the audio channels. *[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 *[OS]: Operating System *[decibel]: Unit of measurement (dB) for sound levels *[clipping]: A form of distortion that limits a signal once it exceeds a threshold *[Spectrogram]: Visual representation of the spectrum of frequencies of a signal as it varies with time *[prevent clipping]: Dynamic range compression (DRC)is an audio signal processing operation that reduces the volume of loud sounds or amplifies quiet sounds, thus reducing or compressing an audio signal's dynamic range. *[SNR]: Signal-to-Noise Ratio *[dbFS]: Decibels relative to full scale *[QHD]: Quad-HD *[UHD]: Ultra High Definition *[XML]: Extensible Markup Language *[fps]: frames per second