OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats. What really sets OpenShot apart from other video editors is the easy-to-use user interface.
OpenShot has many great features, such as trimming and arranging videos, adjusting audio levels, transitions between videos, compositing multiple layers of video, chroma-key / green screen effect, and support of most formats and codecs.
OpenShot key features:
- Cross-platform (Supports Linux, OS X, and Windows)
- Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
- Powerful curve-based Key Frame animations
- Desktop integration (drag and drop support)
- Unlimited tracks / layers
- Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, rotation, and cutting
- Video transitions with real-time previews
- Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
- Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
- 3D Animated Titles (and Effects)
- SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
- Scrolling motion picture credits
- Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
- Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
- Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
- Frame stepping (key-mappings: J, K, and L keys)
- Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)
- Digital zooming of video clips
- Time-mapping and Speed changes on clips (slow/fast, forward/backward, etc...)
- Custom transition lumas and masks
- Audio mixing and editing
- Presets for key frame animations and layout
- Ken Burns effect (artistic panning over an image)
- Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and many more!
- OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD .
OpenShot 2.4.4 changelog:
- Bump version to 2.4.4 (minimum libopenshot to 0.2.3)
- Scale keyframe coordinates when changing Profile or Exporting using a different FPS (#2620)
- Large performance improvements on AngularJS Timeline (and solved some Async issues) (#2533)
- Integration of resvg SVG library (gitlab and freeze updates) (#2540)
- Improved Tracks (simpler numbering, faster inserting, prevent deletion of locked tracks) (#2491)
- Improved Docking (Timeline widget is now dockable and Properties works in pillar mode) (#2490)
- Windows Installer: Remove invalid files (system32/zlib1.dll) (#2678)
- Use libopenshot to generate preview images for our Title editor, and no longer use Qt"s SVG parsing by default. (#2544)
- Improving UTF-8 path detection and conversion (#2525)
- Rewrite conversion of relative and absolute path support in OpenShot (#2477)
- Fixing many Python issues reported in our automatic exception tracking (#2482)
- Fixing Various Breakages in our Release Testing Plan (#2669)
- Fixing regressions to Split Audio (#2660)
- Integrate Constant Rate Factor (CRF) into Export Dialog (#2543)
- Separating PrepareStreams() from Open(), to allow SetOption() to correctly function (#2568)
- Adding h265 export preset (thanks Peter) (#2680)
- Adding ~/.openshot_qt/presets/ User-defined Presets, so users can easily install custom export presets (devices and formats) (#2555)
- Dragging an OSP file into the Project Files widget will open the entire project file (and prompt to save unsaved changes) (#2616)
- Persist undo/redo history correctly across OpenShot sessions (#2474)
- Fix audio waveform display when slicing clips or resizing/trimming clips
- Color picker: Never use native dialog (#2425)
- Adding Git Changelog screen (#2566)
- Converting to new Settings class, instead of the old ENV VAR method (#2520)
- Reverting Angular from 1.7.2 to 1.6.0 (for stability reasons) (#2479)
- Updating GitHub Templates (for bug report, question, and feature request) (#2608)
- Updating GitHub README: features list, translation urls, and badges (#2597)
- Completed Arabic, Hindi, Chinese (Simplified and Traditional) translations (#2594)
- Update messaging integration on build server (#2426)
- Add init.py file for installed module (#2419)
- launch.py: Path-detect via openshot_qt init (#2419)
- Exit using sys.exit() (#2409)
- preferences: Tweak item layout (#2401)
- Widen export window (#2373)
- Pass remaining command line args to Qt (#2355)
- Copy (cleaned up) xdg icon to src/images (#2316)
- Add strings to be translated and fix tuple error (#2275)
- added browse button in file properties dialog, to allow relinking of individual media files (#2275)
- fix for automatic relinking of missing media files during project open (#2275)
- Add the same browse type for inkscape and blender field (#2255)
- Remove CRLF line endings from chromebook preset (#2204)
- Convert language.py line endings (#2204)
- Missing files are now automatically deleted from the recent menu (#2202)
- Append correct extension to snapshot frames (#2196)
- Simplify version number and file name logic in build server (especially for releases) (#2136)
- Update Contributors & Translations (#2679)
Download: OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.4 (32-bit) | 170.0 MB (Open Source)
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