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8/31/2016

Noobs on Ubuntu and Windows

OpenShot 2.1 Crowd Funded Video Editor Released, Install in Ubuntu/Linux Mint

Posted: 30 Aug 2016 09:46 PM PDT

OpenShot video editor is an open-source video editor for Linux but also available for Windows and Mac, it is free and released under GNU GPL 3 license. Using OpenShot video editor you can create a film with your videos, photos, and audio tracks that you have always thought of. It lets you add transitions, effects, and sub-titles, and you can export to DVD, YouTube, Video, and many other common formats. OpenShot is written primarily in Python, with a GTK+ interface, and uses the MLT framework, FFmpeg, and Blender to power many of the advanced features. After a successful Kickstarter campaign of OpenShot we have seen that it reached to 2.0 version in recent past and made tremendous improvement. Recently developers released a new update 2.0.7 beta-4, currently main PPA doesn't have this version but testing PPA, hopefully the main PPA will be updated soon.

Main Features:

Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg )
Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
Unlimited tracks / layers
Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, and cutting
Video transitions with real-time previews
Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
3D Animated Titles
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 )
Key Frame animation
Digital zooming of video clips
Speed changes on clips (slow motion 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 over 20 other video effects
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.

Changes in this release:

Custom Profile Support
Improved 1.x Project Support
Improved Translations (fixed many spots that were not being correctly translated)
Huge Performance Gains with Effects
Users now have the ability to see all keyboard shortcuts used by OpenShot, and even customize them.
Improved Debug Support (in the Preferences you can enable debug mode, which dramatically slows down everything, but creates some great debug log files in the /.openshot_qt/ folder)
Fixed a regression on the Split Video screen
Fixed Animated Title screen regression
Long timelines now supported (up to 48 hours). This was actually a pretty nasty bug, which was causing issues on any project with more than 1 hour of video.
Memory Leaks - The largest leaks have now been plugged
Checkout complete list of changes here.

Available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install OpenShot 2.1 (Stable Version) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal:

Terminal Commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

Available for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial/14.04 Trusty/Linux Mint 18/17/other related Ubuntu derivatives
To install OpenShot 2.x (Daily Testing Builds) in Ubuntu/Linux Mint (Press Ctrl+Alt+T) and copy the following commands in the Terminal: