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 3.2.1 highlights:
UI/UX Improvements
- Prevent freezes on Windows: switch video preview widget background color to use stylesheet and palette.
- Fixed background theme color on the preview/split clip dialog.
Theme and Window Management
- Refactored ThemeManager for improved thread safety and to fix Windows launch freezes.
- Delay showing the main window until all themes are fully applied.
- Restored geometry and window state twice to ensure proper functionality.
- Limited setContentsMargins to specific widgets to fix issues when changing themes.
- Prevented empty context menus from appearing on the property table view.
Sentry Bug Fixes
- Addressed multiple Sentry issues including:
- list index out of range errors.
- pop index out of range on Add to Timeline dialog.
- Attribute and Type errors in various components.
Implemented fixes for Sentry issues:
- OPENSHOT-4D, OPENSHOT-YG, OPENSHOT-F2, OPENSHOT-5P6T, OPENSHOT-182J, OPENSHOT-22QG, OPENSHOT-1P, OPENSHOT-11T, and OPENSHOT-1V7C.
Deploy Script Enhancements
- Updated deploy script to allow for partial deployments based on repo changes.
Support and Documentation
- Updated supporters.json and donation files.
- Updated translations for the next release.
- Added a disclaimer and updated docs for the location of old/previous versions of OpenShot installers. [full release notes]
Download: OpenShot Video Editor (64-bit) | 189.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: OpenShot Video Editor (32-bit)
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