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Title File Operations

There are three file operations available:

  • document-open Open document (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+O)

  • document-save-as Save as (keyboard shortcut Ctrl+S)

  • edit-download Download New Title Templates (keyboard shortcut Alt+D)

Hint If the title editor window is not wide enough, the file operations icons may not be displayed. Instead, a left arrow > is displayed (depending on your style and icon set the arrow might be black and therefore difficult to see). Click it to get a drop-down menu with the file operation items.

Open a Title​

Click the document-open Open Document button in the title editor toolbar, or press Ctrl+O to open the Load Title dialog window. Only files of type .kdenlivetitle can be opened. Navigate to the respective folder in your filesystem, select the title file you want to open, and click on Open.

Save a Title​

Click the document-save-asSave As button in the tool bar, or press Ctrl+S to open the Save Title dialog window. Navigate to the respective target folder in your filesystem, and enter a name for the title. Make sure that the title is saved in the .kdenlivetitle format for Kdenlive to recognize it properly. For a title to be used as a template, it must be saved to this folder in your filesystem:

Linux appimage:

~/.local/share/kdenlive/titles

Linux Flatpak:

~/.var/app/org.kde.kdenlive/data/kdenlive/titles

Windows:

%AppData%/kdenlive/titles (press Win+R and copy %AppData%/kdenlive/)

Download New Title Template​

Kdenlive can connect to the KDE Store[[1]] to download title templates from there. Click the edit-download Download New Title Templates icon on the toolbar, or press Alt+D.

Once these title templates are installed, they can be accessed via the Template drop-down list (see (10) in the layout description).

The .kdenlivetitle title template files are installed to:

Linux:

~/.local/share/kdenlive/titles

Flatpak:

~/.var/app/org.kde.kdenlive/data/kdenlive/titles

Windows:

%AppData%/kdenlive/titles. Press Win+R and copy %AppData%/kdenlive/.

If you have a title template you want to share with the community, you can upload it to the KDE Store Kdenlive Title Template section so that other Kdenlive users can download it through this method.

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Kdenlive has a direct link to the KDE Store from where you can download and install new title templates. If you have an active Internet connection, Kdenlive queries the KDE Store for all of the template files available and opens a dialog window. *[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 *[NTSC]: National Television Standard Committee - defined the TV system used in the United States, Japan and many other countries *[PAL]: Phase Alternating Line - a colour encoding system for analogue television *[LFE]: Low Frequency Effects *[RAW]: The RAW file format is digital photography's equivalent of a negative in film photography: it contains untouched, raw pixel information straight from the digital camera's sensor *[DSLR]: Digital Single Lens Reflex *[DOF]: Depth of Field *[NDF]: Neutral Density Filter *[AVI]: Audio Video Interleave *[BT.601]: A standard from 1982 defining how RGB color primaries get turned into the YCbCr channels used by modern codecs *[BT.709]: A standard from 1990 which does the same at BT.601 but the transfer coefficients are slightly different *[grep]: A Unix command-line utility for searching plain-text data sets for lines that match a regular expression *[MLT]: Media Lovin' Toolkit - An open source software multimedia framework designed and developed for tv broadcasting *[SD]: Secure Digital - a proprietary, non-volatile, flash memory card format developed by the SD Association