Project Menu

The Project Menu is for adding assets (audio, video, images, other clips) to and managing various aspects of your project.

Kdenlive Project Menu

Most of the function of the Project Menu are also available from within the Project Bin widget.

Use the navigation to the left to go to the various items.

Add Clip or Folder

This function allows you to add video, audio and (single) image files from your file system. It is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin or by right-click or double-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

Adding a clip or entire folder

A more detailed explanation of this function is available in the Clips section of this documentation.

Add Color Clip

This function allows you to create a clip with a single color.

Adding a Color Clip

It is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-clicking on empty space in the Project Bin.

For more details refer to the Color Clips section of this documentation.

Add Image Sequence

This function adds a series of still images as one clip to the Project Bin.

Adding an Image Sequence

It is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

For more details refer to the Image Sequence section of this documentation.

Add Title Clip

This function adds a Title Clip to the Project Bin. First, it opens the Titler app where you create the Title Clip. Once saved it shows up in the Project Bin.

A more detailed documentation of the Titler app is available in the Titles section of the documentation.

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

Add Template Title

This function creates a Title Clip based on a Template Title.

Adding a Template Title

You build the template in the Titler application like a normal Title Clip. The key is the placeholder ‘%s’. It will be replaced by the text you enter here.

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

Please refer to the Titles section of this documentation for more details about Titles and Templates.

Create Animation

This function creates an animation clip in the Project Bin and calls Glaxnimate, the application to actually create the animation.

Creating an animation

Glaxnimate has to be installed on your computer and the path to it must be set in Settings ‣ Configure Kdenlive ‣ Environment ‣ Default Apps.

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

Add Sequence

This function creates a new Sequence in the Project Bin.

Add a new Sequence

Sequences were introduced with version 23.04 and are needed for nested timelines where you can edit clips separately and independently.

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

Please refer to the Sequence section of this documentation for more details.

Create Folder

This function creates a new folder in the Project Bin.

The folder is a virtual folder and very useful to keep your assets organized. You can also create separate bins from each folder (see the Create additional project bins section)

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin.

More details are available in the Create Folder section of this documentation.

Tip

A good way to keep your Project Bin neat and tidy is to have bin folders or separate bins for your footage (main video), B-roll, audio, still images, SFX and VFX, titles and so on.

Generators

This function allows to create generated clips in your Project Bin for

• Counter

• Color Bars (old TV test display)

• White Noise

This function is also available from the menu bar of the Project Bin and by right-click on empty space in the Project Bin. See the Clips section in this documentation for more details.

Subtitles

This function opens a flyout to switch the Subtitle Editor on or off and to offer additional options for dealing with subtitles.

Adding subtitles

Please refer to the Subtitle section of this documentation.

View Mode

This function allows to switch between the various views available for the Project Bin:

• Tree View - When enabled shows the Project Bin items as a hierarchy. Each item in the list can have several subitems (shown individually indented).

• Icon View - When enabled shows the Project Bin items in a flat grid of items shown by their thumbnails with captions

Clean Project

This function can be used to remove any unused clips from the Project Bin.

Clean up the project

You can undo this action with Edit ‣ Undo, through the Undo History or with the default keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Z.

Note

This is different from the Project Settings dialog button Delete Files in the Project Files tab which deletes files not used by the project from the hard drive.

Render

This function opens the Rendering Dialog with which you can create your video clip. Please refer to the Rendering section of this documentation for more details.

Adjust Profile to Current Clip

This function offers up a suggested Project Profile that would be most suitable for the currently selected clip in the Project Bin.

Adjusting the project profile to the clip properties

Archive Project

This function allows you to copy all files required by the project to a specific folder of your choice.

Archiving a project

Please refer to the Archiving section of this documentation for more details.

Open Backup File

This function opens the list of automatic backups of the project Kdenlive creates.

Restore a backup file

From here you can select the restore point you want to go back to. More details are available in the Backup section of this documentation.

Project Settings

This function opens the Project Settings dialog where you can set all basic properties of the project.

Project Settings window

More details about the various parameters and tabs are available in the Project Settings Dialog section of the documentation.

Attention

Certain things cannot be changed once assets have been added to the project or put on the timeline. Changing certain properties of the project may lead to unwanted results. It is highly recommended to create a copy of the project file before changing project settings.

Note

Changing the project folder location does not work properly. In most cases the files are not moved.