OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
- Cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
- Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
- Powerful curve-based Key frame animations
- Desktop integration (drag and drop support)
- Unlimited tracks / layers
- Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, rotation, and cutting
- Video transitions with real-time previews
- Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
- Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
- 2D animation support (image sequences)
- 3D animated titles (and effects)
- SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
- Scrolling motion picture credits
- Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
- Frame accuracy (step through each frame of video)
- Time-mapping and speed changes on clips (slow/fast, forward/backward, etc...)
- Audio mixing and editing
- Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key, and many more!
- Experimental hardware encoding and decoding (VA-API, NVDEC, D3D9, D3D11, VTB)
- Import & Export widely supported formats (EDL, XML)
- Render videos in many codecs and formats (based on FFmpeg)
The quickest way to get started using OpenShot is to download one of our pre-built installers. On our download page, click the Daily Builds button to view the latest, experimental builds, which are created for each new commit to this repo.
https://www.openshot.org/download/
Watch the official step-by-step video tutorial, or read the official user-guide:
Are you interested in becoming more involved in the development of OpenShot? Build exciting new features, fix bugs, make friends, and become a hero! Please read the step-by-step instructions for getting source code, configuring dependencies, and building OpenShot.
Beautiful HTML documentation can be generated using Sphinx.
cd doc
make html
Please report bugs using the official Report a Bug feature on our website. This walks you through the bug reporting process, and helps to create a high-quality bug report for the OpenShot community.
Or you can report a new issue directly on GitHub:
https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/issues
Translating OpenShot into other languages is very easy! Please read the step-by-step instructions or login to LaunchPad and get started. All you need is a web browser.
- Application Translations: https://translations.launchpad.net/openshot/2.0/+translations
- Website Translations: https://translations.launchpad.net/openshot/website/+pots/django
Although installers are much easier to use, if you must build from source, here are some tips:
OpenShot is programmed in Python (version 3+), and thus does not need to be compiled to run. However, be sure you have the following dependencies in order to run OpenShot successfully:
- Python 3.0+ (http://www.python.org)
- PyQt5 (http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/software/pyqt/download5)
- libopenshot: OpenShot Library (https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot)
- libopenshot-audio: OpenShot Audio Library (https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot-audio)
- FFmpeg or Libav (http://www.ffmpeg.org/ or http://libav.org/)
- GCC build tools (or MinGW on Windows)
To run OpenShot from the command line, use the following syntax: (be sure the change the path to match the install or repo location of openshot-qt)
$ cd [openshot-qt folder]
$ python3 src/launch.py
- https://www.openshot.org/ (Official website and blog)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt (source code and issue tracker)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot-audio (source code for audio library)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot (source code for video library)
- https://launchpad.net/openshot/
Copyright (c) 2008-2019 OpenShot Studios, LLC. This file is part of OpenShot Video Editor (https://www.openshot.org), an open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
OpenShot Video Editor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
OpenShot Video Editor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with OpenShot Library. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.