Bug 443916

It would be super huge improvement if the magnetic timeline support is introduced to kdenlive.

I love kde software and prefer to use kde apps when possible. They integrates with the DE very pleasantly. Unfortunately, it is not always true that kde applications are better than alternatives (gnome apps or proprietary apps) in features parity. And this feature request is about exactly such case.

The conception of magnetic timeline is simple. You can see videos in youtube showing how it works in Final Cut Pro X. You have a central track which is called "primary storyline". You add clips to that, and it sticks them together automatically. You can trim/untrim clips from left and from rignt, and the neighbor clips will be automatically sticked to the newly position.

It _significantly_ saves time when you edit videos with "speaking head", when you cut off bad takes.

Lacking this feature is really a showstopper of using kdenlive, despite all other benefits and conveniences already available in it.

Going further. The Final Cut Pro X is only available for macos, but DaVinci Resolve is available for all platforms. It has its own limitations, but I wanted to say that it introduced that conception too! You can montage from different pages in it. One is "Cut" (magnetic timeline) and another is "Edit" (classic timeline). You can easily switch between them, and all that is in a single application.

It would be cool to have such thing in kdenlive. There are already "layouts" in kdenlive. "Just" need to make another implementation for the timeline.

P.S. I donate to kde project from time to time. But I even would like to donate individually to this project to make this feature happen, if that is possible. Because I wanted this for years, suffering from doing hackintosh machines, making DR work in linux and as I said, is has its own major limitations.