OpenShot Video Editor

Create and edit videos and movies

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning, open-source video editor, available on Linux, Mac, Chrome OS, and Windows. OpenShot can create stunning videos, films, and animations with an easy-to-use interface and rich set of features.

Features include:

  • Free & open-source (licensed under GPLv3)
  • Cross-platform (Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, and Windows)
  • Easy-to-use user interface (designed for beginners, built-in tutorial)
  • Supports most video, audio, & image formats (based on FFmpeg)
  • Includes popular video profiles & presets (over 70+ profiles, including YouTube HD)
  • Advanced timeline (including drag and drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
  • Advanced clips (including trimming, alpha, scaling, location, rotation, and shearing)
  • Real-time preview (multi-threaded, and optimized for performance)
  • Simple & advanced views (or customize your own unique view)
  • Powerful, curve-based Keyframe animations (linear, Bézier, and constant interpolation)
  • Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, & transparency
  • Unlimited tracks / layers (support for complex projects)
  • Video transitions, masks, & wipes (grayscale images and animated masks)
  • Video & audio effects (including brightness, gamma, hue, chroma key / blue screen, and more)
  • Image sequences & 2D animations (001.png, 002.png, 003.png, etc…)
  • Blender 3D integration (animated 3D title templates)
  • Vector file support & editing (SVG / scalable vector graphics used for titles and credits)
  • Audio mixing, waveform, & editing
  • Emojis (open-source stickers & artwork included)
  • Frame accuracy (step through each frame of video)
  • Time mapping & speed changes (slow/fast, forward/backward)
  • Advanced AI (motion tracking, object detection, & stabilization effects)
  • Credits & captions (scrolling and animated)
  • Hardware accelerated (encoding & decoding supports NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and more)
  • Import & export (EDL and Final Cut Pro formats, supports most video editors)
  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts
  • Translations (available in 100+ languages)

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, non-linear video editor. It can create and edit videos and movies using many popular video, audio, and image formats. Create videos for YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Metacafe, iPod, Xbox, and many more common formats! . Features include:

  • Multiple tracks (layers)
  • Compositing, image overlays, and watermarks
  • Support for image sequences (rotoscoping)
  • Key-frame animation
  • Video and audio effects (chroma-key)
  • Transitions (lumas and masks)
  • 3D animation (titles and physics simulations)
  • Chroma key (green screen & blue screen)
  • Transcode (convert video encodings)
  • Upload videos (YouTube and Vimeo supported)

Application Homepage

How to install OpenShot Video Editor in Ubuntu

If you are on a supported distro, you can install the application through software center by clicking the below link.

Install OpenShot Video Editor

If the above link not working, run the below command in terminal to install openshot-qt in Ubuntu

sudo apt install openshot-qt

OpenShot Video Editor Screenshots

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