Software  When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

OpenShot Video Editor 3.1.0

OpenShot Video Editor

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 3.1.0 highlights:

  • Bumping version to 3.1.0 (min libopenshot version to 0.3.1)
  • Improved Profiles (400+ Export Profiles, New Profile UI, and more)
  • Improved Undo / Redo system, includes grouping actions (i.e. single undo for split-clips and similar multi-step edits)
  • Improved Preview & Split Clip dialog (correct aspect ratio, correct sample rate)
  • libopenshot Improvements:
  • Huge Time Re-mapping update (improved audio resampling, better support for backwards audio, bezier curve audio support)
  • Improved Caption Effect
  • Caption effect font_size moving from "Points" to "Pixels"
  • Caption effect default properties have been changed (smaller text)
  • Caption effect improvements / fixes (better VTT support)
  • Memory leak fixes
  • Clip caching - causing a large memory leak
  • Small memory leak in FFmpegReader
  • Improved Performance (FrameMapper & Clip objects now include extra caching and optimizations)
  • Improved Keyboard Bindings (arrow keys)
  • Bug fix for Blender Animated Titles using high FPS (incorrect duration)
  • Bug fix for Mac Chroma Key effect (babl color methods)
  • Bug fix for video preview widget resizing, to correctly clear cache
  • Bug fix for Automatic Transition Direction logic (i.e. correctly fade in/out based on where the transition is dropped)
  • Fixing many bugs reported via Sentry.io
  • Fixed issue with AppImage to support newer distros (related to glibc compatibility)
  • Improved About dialog (release notes link, remove "candidate" for official releases)
  • Expanded default Emojis (adding in Arrows, Shapes, and Brands)
  • Improved File Properties Dialog, to handle replacing files and thumbnails, and better support for changing FPS
  • Updated language translations
  • Updated supporters and donors
  • Updated docs / user-guide [release notes]

Download: OpenShot Video Editor (64-bit) | 188.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: OpenShot Video Editor (32-bit)
Links: OpenShot Home Page | Help Manual | Other Operating Systems

Get alerted to all of our Software updates on Twitter at @NeowinSoftware

Report a problem with article
Next Article

PrivaZer 4.0.70

Previous Article

Sandboxie 1.8.4 Plus / Classic 5.63.4 [Update]