The development of Kdenlive moved on from the K Desktop Environment 3 version (which wasn't originally made for MLT) to KDE Platform 4, with an almost complete rewrite.

[14] In early 2017 the development team started working on a refactoring of the program, and by June 2017 a first preview was available.

[15] By December 2017 the refactoring became the main focus of the development team with the release of the first usable preview.

[19] KDE's Kdenlive makes use of MLT, Frei0r effects, SoX and LADSPA libraries.

Video can also be exported to DV devices, or written to a DVD with chapters and a simple menu.