OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning Free and Open Source Software video editor for Windows, macOS, and most Linux distributions. OpenShot is dedicated to delivering high-quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
Original author(s) | Jonathan Thomas |
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Developer(s) | OpenShot Studios, LLC |
Initial release | August 2008; 12 years ago[1] |
Stable release | 2.5.1 / March 3, 2020; 13 months ago[2] |
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Written in | Python, PyQt, C++ (libopenshot library) |
Operating system | Linux, macOS, Windows |
Available in | 70 languages |
Type | Video editing software |
License | GNU General Public License, version 3 or later[3] |
Website | www.openshot.org |
OpenShot Video Editor is a free and open-sourcevideo editor for Linux, macOS, and Windows. The project was started in August 2008 by Jonathan Thomas, with the objective of providing a stable, free, and friendly to use video editor.[1][4][5][6][7][8]
OpenShot is written in Python, PyQt5, C++ and offers a PythonAPI.[9] OpenShot's core video editing functionality is implemented in a C++ library, libopenshot. The core audio editing is based on the JUCE library.
Since version 2.0.6 (released in 2016), OpenShot is now a cross-platform application. OpenShot is also available in PortableApps form for Windows since 2020.[10]
OpenShot supports commonly used codecs that are supported by FFmpeg, including WebM (VP9), AVCHD (libx264), HEVC (libx265), and audio codecs such as mp3 (libmp3lame) and aac (libfaac). The program can render MPEG4, ogv, Blu-ray, and DVD video, and Full HD videos for uploading to Internet video web sites.[11]
A 2010 review of version 1.0 found it to be of alpha quality and not suited for productive use by the general public.[12]On March 31, 2017, a review by Bryan Lunduke on Network World lauded Openshot 2.3 for 'its new transformation tool and title editor—as well as its smooth performance'.[13] Lunduke also positively mentioned the Linux distribution-agnostic packaging under usage of AppImage.[13]
Jonathan Thomas is also the creator of tutorials on YouTube, the OpenShot Tutorials and CloudAPI Tutorials[14] all on his personal channel.
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OpenShot is distributed via appimage. That means they provide a single binary that can be run on just about any modern Linux distribution. I personally tested this out on openSUSE Tumbleweed with great success—but it should run just as easily on Debian, Fedora or others. I love this approach to distributing software directly from the developers.