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 3.1.1 highlights:
- Bumping version to 3.1.1, min libopenshot dependency to 0.3.2
- Prevent freeze on launch (in Windows - when your sample-rate in OpenShot does not match the host OS sample-rate)
- Fix duplicate Profile name bug (causing an issue when exporting and re-opening a project with specific profile names)
- Adding Profile search button to Preferences (for easier filtering and searching for a default profile)
- Protect timeline (webview) from receiving lots of unneeded messages from libopenshot
- Large refactor for Tracker and Object Detection effects (allow property editing, prevent crashes, allow parent property to work)
- Refactor of Parent property (simpler, a single "None" option, thumbnail images)
- Improved caching logic around Property Editor (better performance while adjusting clip properties)
- Many small code refactors and fixes to prevent noisy errors (reported by Sentry.io)
- Updated language translations
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Removed old GitHub Action builder for Ubuntu 18.04, and tweaked GitHub CI build scripts
- Updated credits and donors [full release notes]
Download: OpenShot Video Editor (64-bit) | 188.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: OpenShot Video Editor (32-bit)
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