Kdenlive
Kdenlive is a non-linear video editor for macOS that helps you cut, arrange, enhance, subtitle, and export video projects.
What is Kdenlive?
Kdenlive is a desktop video editing app for creating and finishing video projects on macOS. It is designed for users who want a non-linear editor for assembling clips, trimming footage, arranging timelines, mixing audio, and exporting finished videos in many formats. Kdenlive includes transitions, visual effects, color correction tools, subtitle editing, and audio post-production features that support common editing workflows. It also offers tools such as proxy editing, scopes, nested sequences, and motion tracking for more complex projects. The app is useful for creators, students, hobbyists, and editors who need a capable editor without being tied to a subscription service. Kdenlive is published by K Desktop Environment e.V. as part of the KDE software ecosystem.
Key features
- Edit video and audio on a multi-track timeline
- Apply transitions, visual effects, and color correction
- Create and edit subtitles inside your project
- Use scopes such as histogram, waveform, vectorscope, and audio meters
- Work with proxy editing for smoother performance on heavier footage
- Organize complex edits with nested sequences
- Track motion for effects and compositing tasks
- Export finished videos to many output formats
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Safety overview
Status: Mostly safe
Kdenlive is a legitimate open-source video editor from the KDE project. Access to files and folders is consistent with its purpose because it needs to open media, save projects, and render exports. Video editing can use significant CPU, memory, and disk space during previews and renders, so heavy resource use is normal while working. If you installed a nightly or test build, expect more instability than the regular release and use stable downloads for important work.
Recommendation: Keep Kdenlive if you use it for video editing or plan to return to existing projects, since removing it may also leave you without its saved settings and workflow setup. If you no longer edit video with it, removing the app is reasonable and mainly affects your ability to open or continue Kdenlive projects on this Mac until you reinstall it.
Common paths
/Applications/Kdenlive.app
Cache paths
~/Library/Caches/org.kde.kdenlive
Support paths
~/Library/Application Support/kdenlive
Preference paths
~/Library/Preferences/org.kde.kdenlive.plist
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