![]() ![]() Will I ditch my trusted Kdenlive and move all of my production over to OpenShot? Not quite yet. OpenShot is turning into something I can see myself using for my own video projects with great regularity. Oh! And there’s a button that’ll toggle you in and out of Full Screen mode, which is very handy for sitting down and focusing on the video in front of you.Īll in all, I’m damn impressed. I’ve grown accustomed to having a certain set of key bindings in my video editor-and now I can use them within OpenShot. In there you can change every single stinkin’ hotkey. If you go into the Preferences within OpenShot, there is a Keyboard tab. That brings me to possibly my favorite thing about OpenShot 2.3: The interface seems to be more responsive, everything is quite pleasant looking, and it has all the little niceties I like in my video editor. Some of the built-in templates are a ton of fun and look absolutely fantastic.Īside from these two new features-which are fantastic all by themselves-the big thing that jumped out at me about version 2.3 is how much polish there seems to have been since the last time I really gave OpenShot a try (back after the 2.0 release). This is, hands down, the most fun title editor I’ve ever laid my grubby mitts on. This new version also adds a seriously beefy way to create titles for your videos. Not only is it easy, but the performance was quite peppy. The result is a nice smooth animation put together in just a few minutes. OpenShot will do the hard work of calculating and rendering all of the frames in between those two points for you. Then move to the next spot on the timeline that you want the image to do something else and repeat. Select a spot on the timeline to start the animation, select Transform, then adjust the image however you want in a WYSIWYG way. Simply drop an item (say, an image of your kid playing hockey) on the timeline. It allows you to easily add some very cool animations to your videos. To start with, the new transformation tool is absolutely stupendous. So, what makes OpenShot 2.3 so ridiculously awesome? I love this approach to distributing software directly from the developers. I personally tested this out on openSUSE Tumbleweed with great success-but it should run just as easily on Debian, Fedora or others. That means they provide a single binary that can be run on just about any modern Linux distribution. Interestingly, OpenShot is distributed via appimage. It’s available for Linux and, according to their download page, for Windows and Mac, as well. ![]() OpenShot is, quite simply, a cross-platform, free software (GPL licensed) video editing package. ![]()
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