

The program can render Blu-ray and DVD video, and Full HD videos for uploading to internet video websites. OpenShot Video Editor is based on FFmpeg which allows support for commonly used codecs like WebM (VP9), AVCHD (libx264), HEVC (libx265) and audio codecs like mp3 (libmp3lame) and AAC (libfaac). Easily add subtitles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats. OpenShot Video Editor's feature-rich editor can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. A few notable improvements are related to thread safety (during timeline changes and video playback caching), multi-threaded unit tests designed to flush out race conditions and concurrency issues, safer object clean-up and deletion, and updates to the Undo/Redo system to prevent crashes (for example, when spamming undo)," explains Jonathan Thomas, OpenShot Creator.OpenShot Video Editor is a free, cross-platform and open-source video editor built with Python, GTK, and the MLT Framework – that designed with a focus on “User Interface”, “Work flow”, and “Stability”. This was a unique challenge, both in finding clever ways to identify and reproduce crashes, and finding solutions that don't impact the performance of OpenShot. "We have worked tirelessly over the past 12 months to identify and fix as many stability issues as possible in OpenShot. The developers brag that it includes over a thousand changes.

And now, OpenShot has reached a new major milestone - version 3.0. Openshot Lightworks iMovie Windows Movie Maker VSDC Video Editor. This cross-platform video editor can run on Windows and macOS too, meaning you can try it on one of those platforms to see if it meets your needs before switching to Linux. Some of the software listed below are all recommended for either both Windows and Mac. While it's true there are more video editing programs on macOS and Windows, there are some great options on Linux too, such as Kdenlive and DaVinci Resolve.Īnother popular video editing application that runs on Linux is the open source OpenShot. The interface is extremely flexible, and the new tools mostly add useful features. One of the big reasons some people don't switch to Linux is a lack of video editors. OpenShot is a free video editor that mostly goes from strength to strength with each new release.
