OpenShot is a non-linear video editor designed to make video editing approachable without sacrificing useful creative tools. Video, audio and images can be arranged across multiple tracks, trimmed and combined into projects ranging from simple clips to more involved productions.
The timeline provides frame-accurate editing, snapping, audio waveforms and keyframe animation. Position, scale, rotation, opacity, volume, playback speed and effect properties can all be animated, with linear, constant or Bézier interpolation.
Recent releases have considerably expanded the editing environment. OpenShot can record the screen, webcam and microphone directly into a project, while dedicated colour tools provide colour wheels, curves, LUTs and live scopes for correction and grading.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Unlimited tracks for arranging video, audio and images with timeline thumbnails and audio waveforms.
- Trim, slice, resize, snap and move clips with frame-accurate timeline controls and an improved Razor tool.
- Built-in recording for the screen, webcam, microphone and, where supported, system audio.
- Colour correction and grading with colour wheels, curves, LUTs, waveform, histogram, vectorscope and RGB parade views.
- Keyframe animation for transforms, opacity, volume, playback speed, direction and effect parameters.
- Video effects including chroma key, blur, brightness and contrast, crop, stabilisation, denoise, sharpening and colour adjustments.
- Static and animated masks can restrict effects to selected regions or tracked subjects.
- More than 400 transition patterns with configurable direction, brightness, contrast and animation.
- Over 40 editable vector title templates together with Blender-powered 3D animated titles.
- Audio editing and mixing with channel controls, visualisation effects, waveform displays and audio separation.
- Optimised preview media provides a proxy workflow for smoother playback and editing of demanding footage.
- Imports common video, audio and image formats through FFmpeg and offers a wide range of export profiles.
- Hardware-accelerated encoding is available with supported hardware and FFmpeg configurations.
Website: www.openshot.org
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Developer: Jonathan Thomas and contributors
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
OpenShot is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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I like openshot very much, however it doesn’t work in22.04 LTS; still not. So I either keep the old opereating system, or ditch Openshot. Mmmmm……
Openshot works like a charm on Ubuntu. I’m running 22.10.