Flowblade Movie Editor

Developer(s)	Janne Liljeblad and other contributors.
Stable release	2.18.1[1]  / 17 February 2025; 24 days ago (17 February 2025)
Repository	github.com/jliljebl/flowblade
Written in	Python (GTK)
Operating system	Linux
Type	Video editing software
License	GPL-3.0-or-later
Website	jliljebl.github.io/flowblade/

Flowblade Movie Editor is afree and open-sourcevideo editing software forLinux.

The project was started by lead developer Janne Liljeblad in 2009 and has been active since.^[2] The source code is currently hosted onGitHub.

Flowblade employs a film-style insert editing model as workflow with similar design approach asAvid. In insert editing clips are generally placed tightly after other clips when they are inserted on the Timeline. Edits are fine tuned by trimming in and out points of clips or by cutting and deleting parts of clips.

Flowblade builds most of its functionality using media frameworkMLT. OtherMLT video editors areKDEnlive andShotcut.

Other used libraries includeFrei0r effects andLADSPA. Flowblade supports all of the formats supported byFFmpeg orlibav (such asQuickTime,AVI,WMV,MPEG, andFlash Video, among others), and also supports4:3 and16:9 aspect ratios for bothPAL,NTSC and various HD standards, includingHDV andAVCHD.

• Editing with 4 move tools, 3 trim tools, 4 methods to add clips on the Timeline and drag'n'drop functionality. Max.9 combined video and audio tracks available.
• Image compositing with 6 compositors and mix, zoom, move and rotate animations capability.
• Image and audio filtering with 50+ image filters and 30+ audio filters.
• Supported editable media types include most common video and audio formats, depending on installed MLT/FFMPEG codecs, bitmap and vector graphics and numbered frame sequences.
• Built-in title tool.
• G'MIC effects tool
• Unlimited keyframing for animatable clip attributes.
• Output encoding can done to most common video and audio formats^[3]
• User interface has been translated to several languages, includingSpanish,French,Italian,Hungarian andGerman.

• List of video editing software

• Official website
• "10 reasons to use Flowblade on Linux as your video editor".
• Sneddon, Joey (30 August 2016)."Flowblade Linux Video Editor – Is It Any Good?". OMG! Ubuntu!.
• Roshan, Aquil (27 September 2016)."Flowblade: A Feature-rich and Multitrack Non-Linear Video Editor For Linux". Fossmint.

• Free software programmed in Python
• Free video software
• Linux-only free software
• Software that uses PyGObject
• Video editing software
• Video editing software that uses GTK

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