Workflow

• Toolset with 6 edit tools
• Compositing Mode can be selected per sequence to be either Standard Full Track or Top Down Free Move.
• Many timeline behaviours are configurable

Edit tools

• Move
• Insert
• Spacer
• Multitrim
• Cut
• Keyframe

Timeline features

• Insert, Append, Overwrite Range and Overwrite Clip actions for adding clips on the Timeline
• All compositors keyframeble
• Most filters keyframeble
• Drag and drop clips on the Timeline
• Clip and Compositor parenting and resync with other clips
• Split audio from video
• Audio levels display
• Clone and copy paste clips and filters
• Mute track video or audio
• Named markers
• Max 9 combined video and audio tracks available
• Change tracks count
• JKL playback and advanced arrow key seek
• Slow motion and fast speed clips
• Export: MLT XML, Adrour session, Frame image

Compositors

• Affine Blend
• Blend
• Transform
• Alpha: LumaToAlpha, AlphaXOR, AlphaOut, AlphaIn
• Wipe: Wipe/Translate, Wipe Clip Length
• Blend: 18 different blend mode Compositors
• Fades: Fade In, Fade Out

Filters

• Alpha: Alpha Gradient, Alpha Modify, Alpha Shape, Chroma Key, Color Select, Crop, Luma Key, Spill Supress
• Artistic: Cartoon, Charcoal, Color Halftone, Dither, Emboss, Glow, Old Film, Scanlines, Soft Glow, Vignette
• Audio: Mono to Stereo, Pan, Pan Keyframed, Swap Channels, Volume
• Audio Filter: Bandpass, Chorus - Multivoice, Declipper, Delayorama, Distort - Barry's Satan, Distort - Diode Processor, Distort - Foldover, Distort - Pointer cast, Distort - Sinus Wavewrap, Equalize - DJ 3-band, Equalize - Multiband, Flanger - DJ, Frequency Shift - Bode/Moog, GSM Simulator, Highpass - Butterworth, Lowpass - Butterworth, Noise Gate, Pitchscaler - High Quality, Pitchshifter - AM, Rate Shifter, Reverb - GVerb, Reverb - Plate, Signal Shifter, Vinyl Effect
• Blur: Blur, Box Blur, Grain, IRR Blur, Pixelize, RGB Noise
• Color: Brightness, Color Adjustment, Color Grading, Color Lift Gain Gamma, Contrast, Curves, Gamma, Grayscale, Hue, Invert, Levels, Lift Gain Gamma, RGB Adjustment, Saturation, White Balance
• Color Effect: Chroma Hold, Color Clustering, Color Distance, Color Tap, Colorize, Newspaper, Posterize, Primaries, Sepia, Technicolor, Three Layer, Threshold, Threshold0r, Tint
• Distort: Flip, Image Grid, Lens Correction, Mirror, V Sync, Waves
• Edge: Edge Glow, Sobel
• Fix: Denoise, Letterbox, Sharpness
• Movement: Baltan, Freeze, Nervous, Vertigo
• Transform: Affine, Rotate, Shear, Translate

Range Log

• Flowblade provides functionality to save, name and manage in point to out point ranges on media items
• This is useful e.g. for media items that contain multiple areas of interest
• Drag and drop items/clips from/to Range Log panel
• Arrange Range Log items in groups and sort by file name, time or comment
• Add selected items to Timeline in a single action

Proxy Editing

• Proxy editing is a method of editing in which original media clips are presented on timeline by proxy clips
• This is needed when original media makes too high demands for either disk bandwidth or CPU processing power to enable responsive editing
• User can freely change between original media and proxy media

Batch Render Queue

• Flowblade offers a dedicated Batch Render Queue application. Batch Render Queue is a separate application to Flowblade and runs on different process, so it is possible to close Flowblade without affecting ongoing renders
• Render queue is a persistent data structure of render items on disk. Each item consists of a Project file and saved render parameters. Users can add render items to render queue and then render the whole queue without any further user input

G'Mic Effects tool

• G'MIC is a full-featured open-source framework for image processing
• Flowblade G'MIC tool presents user with a selection of commads that can be edited and combined to achieve complex filtering of video clips

Audio Mixer

• Monitor audio levels on VU meters during playback
• Set volume for tracks or Master Out
• Set pannig for tracks

Media Relinker

• Media Relinker is a standalone application running in its own process and does not affect the project that is open in Flowblade
• Replace missing media with other media of your the choice
• Save fixed projects for further editing

Titler

• Multiple text layers
• Position text using image of background video
• Set font, color size and style separately for all text layers

USB Shuttle/Jog playback control

• Control playback backwards and forward smoothly with slowmo 0.35x speed becoming available on version 2.16
• Support for all the most popular devices on market

Misc. Features

• Slow motion and fast speed clips
• Watermarks

Rendering

• Render into user settable or preset formats, or give render args as ffmpeg CLI args/values
• Rendering happens in separate process and does not interfere with editing work
• User render options: MPEG-2 / .mpg, H.264 / .mp4. MPEG-4 / .mp4, Theora / .ogv, Lossless HuffYUV / .avi, Lossless MPEG-2 / .mpg, Lossless MPEG-4 / .mp4, Lossless H.264 / .mp4
• Preset render options: Apple ProRes 4:2:2 / .mov, Audio PCM/.wav 48kHz, Audio PCM/.wav 44.1kHz, Image Sequence BMP, Image Sequence DPX, Image Sequence PNG, Image Sequence PPM, Image Sequence TGA, Image Sequence TIFF, Android 480x320, iPod Classic, iPhone/iPod Touch, HDV PAL 1080 50i, HDV PAL 1080 25p, HDV PAL 720 25p, HDV NTSC 1080 60i, HDV NTSC 1080 30p, HDV NTSC 720 30p, DVD MPEG PAL, DVD MPEG PAL Widescreen, DVD MPEG NTSC, DVD MPEG NTSC Widescreen, DVD PAL 4:3 VOB, DVD PAL 16:9 VOB, DVD NTSC 4:3 VOB, DVD NTSC 16:9 VOB, Raw DV PAL 4:3, Raw DV PAL 16:9, Raw DV DVCPRO25 PAL 4:3, Raw DV DVCPRO25 PAL 16:9, Raw DV DVCPRO50 PAL 4:3, Raw DV DVCPRO50 PAL 16:9, Raw DV NTSC 4:3, Raw DV NTSC 16:9, Raw DV DVCPRO25 NTSC 4:3, Raw DV DVCPRO25 NTSC 16:9, Raw DV DVCPRO50 NTSC 4:3, Raw DV DVCPRO50 NTSC 16:9, AVI DV PAL 4:3, AVI DV PAL 16:9, AVI DVCPRO25 PAL 4:3, AVI DVCPRO25 PAL 16:9, AVI DVCPRO50 PAL 4:3, AVI DVCPRO50 PAL 16:9, AVI DV NTSC 4:3, AVI DV NTSC 16:9. AVI DVCPRO25 NTSC 4:3, AVI DVCPRO25 NTSC 16:9, AVI DVCPRO50 NTSC 4:3, AVI DVCPRO50 NTSC 16:9

Project Profiles

atsc_1080i_50,atsc_1080i_5994,atsc_1080i_60,atsc_1080p_2398,atsc_1080p_24,atsc_1080p_25,atsc_1080p_2997,atsc_1080p_30,atsc_1080p_50,atsc_1080p_60,atsc_720p_2398,atsc_720p_24,atsc_720p_25,atsc_720p_2997,atsc_720p_30,atsc_720p_50,atsc_720p_5994,atsc_720p_60,cif_15,cif_ntsc,cif_pal,cvd_ntsc,cvd_pal,dv_ntsc,dv_ntsc_wide,dv_pal,dv_pal_wide,hdv_1080_25p,hdv_1080_30p,hdv_1080_50i,hdv_1080_60i,hdv_720_25p,hdv_720_30p,hdv_720_50p,hdv_720_60p,qcif_15,qcif_ntsc,qcif_pal,quarter_15,quarter_ntsc,quarter_ntsc_wide,quarter_pal,quarter_pal_wide,sdi_486i_5994,square_ntsc,square_ntsc_wide,square_pal,square_pal_wide,square_wide_24,svcd_ntsc,svcd_ntsc_wide,svcd_pal,svcd_pal_wide,vcd_ntsc,vcd_pal

MLT supported Video Codecs

a64multi,a64multi5,alias_pix,amv,apng,asv1,asv2,avrp,avui,ayuv,bmp,cinepak,cljr,dnxhd,dpx,dvvideo,ffv1,ffvhuff,flashsv,flashsv2,flv,gif,h261,h263,h263p,huffyuv,jpeg2000,jpegls,ljpeg,mjpeg,mpeg1video,mpeg2video,mpeg4,msmpeg4v2,msmpeg4,msvideo1,pam,pbm,pcx,pgm,pgmyuv,png,ppm,prores,prores_aw,prores_ks,qtrle,r10k,r210,rawvideo,roqvideo,rv10,rv20,sgi,snow,sunrast,svq1,targa,tiff,utvideo,v210,v308,v408,v410,wmv1,wmv2,xbm,xface,xwd,y41p,yuv4,zlib,zmbv,libtheora,libvpx,libvpx-vp9,libx264,libx264rgb

MLT supported Audio Codecs

comfortnoises302m,aac,ac3,ac3_fixed,alac,dca,eac3,flac,g723_1,mp2,mp2fixed,nellymoser,real_144,sonic,sonicls,tta,vorbis,wavpack,wmav1,wmav2,pcm_alaw,pcm_f32be,pcm_f32le,pcm_f64be,pcm_f64le,pcm_mulaw,pcm_s8,pcm_s8_planar,pcm_s16be,pcm_s16be_planar,pcm_s16le,pcm_s16le_planar,pcm_s24be,pcm_s24daud,pcm_s24le,pcm_s24le_planar,pcm_s32be,pcm_s32le,pcm_s32le_planar,pcm_u8,pcm_u16be,pcm_u16le,pcm_u24be,pcm_u24le,pcm_u32be,pcm_u32le,roq_dpcm,adpcm_adx,g722,g726,adpcm_ima_qt,adpcm_ima_wav,adpcm_ms,adpcm_swf,adpcm_yamaha,libmp3lame,libvorbis

MLT supported Formats

a64,ac3,adts,adx,aiff,amr,apng,asf,ass,ast,asf_stream,au,avi,avm2,bit,caf,cavsvideo,crc,dash,data,daud,dirac,dnxhd,dts,dv,eac3,f4v,ffm,ffmetadata,filmstrip,flac,flv,framecrc,framemd5,g722,g723_1,gif,gxf,h261,h263,h264,hds,hevc,hls,ico,ilbc,image2,image2pipe,ipod,ircam,ismv,ivf,jacosub,latm,lrc,m4v,md5,matroska,matroska,microdvd,mjpeg,mlp,mmf,mov,mp2,mp3,mp4,mpeg,vcd,mpeg1video,dvd,svcd,mpeg2video,vob,mpegts,mpjpeg,mxf,mxf_d10,mxf_opatom,null,nut,oga,ogg,oma,opus,alaw,mulaw,f64be,f64le,f32be,f32le,s32be,s32le,s24be,s24le,s16be,s16le,s8,u32be,u32le,u24be,u24le,u16be,u16le,u8,psp,rawvideo,rm,roq,rso,rtp,rtp_mpegts,segment,stream_segment,ssegment,singlejpeg,smjpeg,smoothstreaming,sox,spx,spdif,srt,swf,tee,3g2,3gp,mkvtimestamp_v2,truehd,uncodedframecrc,vc1,vc1test,voc,w64,wav,webm,webm_dash_manifest,webm_chunk,webp,webvtt,wtv,wv,yuv4mpegpipe,alsa,fbdev,oss,sdl,v4l2