OpenShot, the free and open source Qt video editor for Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and MacOS, had a new major release which adds new computer vision / AI effects, audio effects and much more. Also, with this release, Chrome OS (Crostini) is officially supported and available on the OpenShot downloads page.
OpenShot is an easy to use yet powerful video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux. It features curve-based key frame animations, unlimited tracks / layers, clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, rotation and cutting. Using it you can also add video transitions with real-time previews, compositing, image overlays, watermarks, animated 3D titles and effects, and much more.
The application makes use of the FFmpeg library, being able to read and write most video and image formats.
Most important new features and improvements available with the latest OpenShot 2.6.0:
- New computer vision / AI effects (motion tracking, object detection, stabilization)
- Audio Effects (compressor, expander, distortion, delay, echo, noise, EQ, robot, whisper)
- New Zoom Slider widget (simple way to navigate around the timeline)
- New Transform Tool (resize, rotate, move, origin point, shear, scale, zoom in/out)
- Improved Snapping (while positioning, trimming, playhead)
- New Caption video effect (rasterize captions on top of video)
- Audio Bug Fixes (more crackling/popping fixes)
- FFmpeg 4 Support, Updated Blender Support, WebEngine WebKit support
- Parentable keyframes (parent clips and keyframes)
- Improved performance & stability (while rendering, ruler drawing, timeline zooming)
- Chrome OS Support (Chromebooks), now officially supported on our download page
If you want to try the new object detection effect, make sure you install the dependencies as explained here. The other 2 new computer vision / AI effects (motion trackinff and stabilization) don’t require installing anything else.
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This is a short video showing the changes in OpenShot 2.6.0:
For a more in-depth look at the new features and improvements in OpenShot 2.6.0, see the official release announcement. A complete changelog is available on GitHub.
Download OpenShot video editor
The video editor is available to download for Linux (64-bit AppImage or PPA, but the latter wasn’t updated at the time I’m writing this), Chrome OS (64-bit AppImage), macOS and Microsoft Windows. OpenShot is also available in the official repositories for many Linux distributions, but it may take a while until it’s updated to the latest 2.6.0 version.
To run the AppImage on Linux, right click it and choose Properties, then enable Allow executing file as program (or similar). After that, you can double-click the AppImage to run it.
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