Introduction

Supported file types

Kinovea comes equipped with video decoding libraries to supports many file types and does not need nor use any third party codecs. It supports the following:

  • Most video file formats, including MP4, MPEG, MOV, AVI, MKV, M4V, FLV, WMV, among others.

  • Animated GIFs.

  • Raster image files PNG, JPEG and BMP.

  • SVG vector images.

  • Image sequences.

Image sequences must have the same size and be named following a numbering pattern. They are loaded as a single video.

Opening files

To open a video in Kinovea do any of the following:

  • Drag and drop the file from Windows explorer onto the Kinovea window.

  • Use the menu File ‣ Open and select the file.

  • Use the menu File ‣ Recent and select a recently opened file.

  • Use the explorer panel to locate and double click on a file in the file explorer, the shortcut explorer, or the recently captured files, or drag and drop it into an opened playback screen.

  • Double click on a thumbnail in the thumbnail explorer.