OpenShot – powerful video editor

OpenShot Video Editor is a non-linear video editor for Linux, built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework. The developers’ goal is to create an easy-to-use, powerful, non-linear video editor, with a focus on “User Interface”, “Work flow”, and “Stability”.

OpenShot can easily combine multiple video clips, audio clips, and images into a single project, and then export the video into many common video formats.

It is a versatile application used to create photo slide shows, edit home videos, create television commercials, on-line films, and much more. The software is particularly strong in the areas of editing and compositing, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD.

Create videos for YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Metacafe, iPod, Xbox, and many more common formats.

Features include:

• Supports many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg).
• GNOME integration (drag and drop support).
• 3D animation.
• Multiple tracks (layers).
• Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting.
• Non-destructive editing so that the original video clips are never modified.
• Video transitions with real-time previews (lumas and masks).
• Compositing, image overlays, watermarks.
• Title templates, title creation.
• SVG friendly, to create and include titles and credits.
• Scrolling motion picture credits.
• Solid color clips (including alpha compositing).
• Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences.
• Drag and drop timeline.
• 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.
• Re-sizing of clips (frame size).
• Audio mixing and editing.
• Presets for key frame animations and layout.
• Ken Burns effect (making video by panning over an image).
• Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen), and over 20 other video effects.
• Extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD.
• Support for Blender 2.6.X.

Website: www.openshot.org
Support: Documentation
Developer: Jonathan Thomas, Andy Finch, Olivier Girard, Karlinux, Helen McCall, TJ, 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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