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OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released

78 points by MzHN 11y ago

geoffroy 11y ago
Behind the scenes, the awesome MELT framework http://www.mltframework.org/ http://www.mltframework.org/
- przemoc 11y ago
  It's MLT, not MELT. And it's a base for other video editor, which is getting stronger each year, seems more stable than the others and already looks IMHO the best among FOSS video editors: http://www.shotcut.org/ http://www.shotcut.org/
tmikaeld 11y ago
I hadn't heard of this project before this post, I must say that this is by far the most promising Open Source video-editing project i have seen. I hope this gains both traction and donations, it's very much worth it!
timlyo 11y ago
How does openshot compare to professional editing software, e.g. vegas or premier.
- nekopa 11y ago
  I think a better comparison would be to Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. It is ridiculously easy to use, but I don't think it has the work flow of professional editing software. I used it a few times to make simple compilation videos - every year I teach a summer camp for kids, and I collect videos throughout the week, put them together and add a song which the kids choose. All I need are just a few transitions, and ability to add titles. With Openshot it was simple. One year I used Adobe premiere, and it was like shooting a mouse with a bazooka. A lot of time and effort, for just basic stuff.
jhoechtl 11y ago
How does it compare featurewise to Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/ which I think is the most advanced OS video editing software around?
- Elv13 11y ago
  Thanks god KDenLive is catching up. Cinelerra[1] (and the cinelerra-cv community fork) was/is more advanced, but its interface is stuck in the 90's, it manage to crash twice per CPU cycle due to horrible code and is resealed without warning in big code dump every year or so. I lost -so- much time in this back in high-school (10-12 years ago) because it was the only high end editor on Linux. Back then the early KDenLive version were not so much better stability wise. However they came a long, long way. Too bad I don't need Video editor anymore, but I still compile KDenLive to see the new features. [1] http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/features/editing http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/features/editing
  - nekopa 11y ago
    Heh, this year is the first time I've actually been able to get Cinelerra to run. I think the worst time I ever had with it was trying to compile it on Slackware a few years ago. Hours of compilation and nothing to show except insta-crash.
- nekopa 11y ago
  See my comment below, I don't think it has the same use case as kdenlive. But I will be trying out kdenlive this year to see how it stacks up for my simple use case. How does kdenlive stack up against Cinelerra? I thought that was the most advanced video editor? Next week I will be testing kdenlive, Openshot, Cinelerra and Blender Video Sequence Editor to see what works quickly and easily for my use case. One of the problems I face is that I have to make 3 compilation videos in one evening, using a weeks worth of footage. When I used Premiere one year it took me from 8pm until 5am to get it all done (mainly because I was learning how to use the software at the same time).
  - Elv13 11y ago
arc_of_descent 11y ago
I do some video recording, with separate audio and then I use a video editor to multiplex the video/audio. And then of course, some nice titles, video fade in/out, brightness adjustment, etc. Over the past 3 years, I've gone through Cinelerra, OpenShot, Kdenlive, and some I can't even remember. Very frustrated over the state of video editing on Linux, I unfortunately once had to use the editor on Windows. :( But now, I'm using Kdenlive each time, and I'm very happy with it. There are some tutorials out there on YouTube which help too.
- reddotX 11y ago
  try shotcut
- yoo1I 11y ago
  I don't you know if you've tried it, but I found the video editor in Blender to the best Linux editor for me yet. Definitely worth a shot.
  - iyn 11y ago
    Blender seems to be a very good video editor BUT having tried it and many other ones, Blender is not as easy to start working with as most other editors. Still, given its features -- yes, I believe it's worth putting the lime to learn it.
- phillc73 11y ago
  It might be worth investigating Lightworks. It's a professional grade NLE[0], with a "free" version, with limits on output format. Five or six years ago, EditStore purchased the Lightworks product, with promises of open sourcing the code[1], but that doesn't seem to have happened. However, there's a pretty stable Linux version available to download[2]. [0] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=214 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl... [1] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=1251&Itemid=81 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&ca... [2] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&Itemid=206&tab=1 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&...
dineshp2 11y ago
I have been following the development of Openshot for the past 3 years and I can't help but think that the progress is very slow. Being an open source project and one in which a sufficiently large number of people are interested, why is that the project is moving so slowly?
- rogerbinns 11y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_sec... The authors decided to redo the underlying library. And change the user interface. And go cross platform. That amounts to a virtual rewrite from scratch.
SEJeff 11y ago
I wonder how the new Openshot compares to Pitivi: http://pitivi.org/?go=tour http://pitivi.org/?go=tour Having followed the dev of some of these for years (>6 years), I see Pitivi as slow dev-wise, but one of the few consistent ones.
me_bx 11y ago
So, are these the options we have now to edit video with open source software? Any other tool missing? * http://www.shotcut.org/ http://www.shotcut.org/ * https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/ * http://www.pitivi.org/ http://www.pitivi.org/ * http://www.openshotvideo.com/ http://www.openshotvideo.com/ * http://cinelerra.org/2015/ http://cinelerra.org/2015/ * https://www.blender.org/ https://www.blender.org/ It would be great to have a place comparing the feature of all the open source video editors...
- phillc73 11y ago
  Natron, an open source compositor: http://natron.fr/ http://natron.fr/ LiVES: http://lives-video.com/ http://lives-video.com/ Lumiera, a re-write of Cinelerra: http://lumiera.org/ http://lumiera.org/ I think one also needs to clearly define the term "edit video." This list concentrates on Non-Linear Editors (NLE), but, for example, it is possible to "edit video" with ffmpeg.
- anoother 11y ago
  Also http://lumiera.org/ http://lumiera.org/
- Elv13 11y ago
  http://www.jahshaka.com http://www.jahshaka.com
manishsharan 11y ago
Is OpenShot is the GUI frontend to MLT ? Or does it do more ?

78 points by MzHN 11y ago

geoffroy 11y ago

Behind the scenes, the awesome MELT framework http://www.mltframework.org/ http://www.mltframework.org/

przemoc 11y ago
It's MLT, not MELT. And it's a base for other video editor, which is getting stronger each year, seems more stable than the others and already looks IMHO the best among FOSS video editors: http://www.shotcut.org/ http://www.shotcut.org/

tmikaeld 11y ago

I hadn't heard of this project before this post, I must say that this is by far the most promising Open Source video-editing project i have seen. I hope this gains both traction and donations, it's very much worth it!

timlyo 11y ago

How does openshot compare to professional editing software, e.g. vegas or premier.

nekopa 11y ago
I think a better comparison would be to Windows Movie Maker or iMovie. It is ridiculously easy to use, but I don't think it has the work flow of professional editing software. I used it a few times to make simple compilation videos - every year I teach a summer camp for kids, and I collect videos throughout the week, put them together and add a song which the kids choose. All I need are just a few transitions, and ability to add titles. With Openshot it was simple. One year I used Adobe premiere, and it was like shooting a mouse with a bazooka. A lot of time and effort, for just basic stuff.

jhoechtl 11y ago

How does it compare featurewise to Kdenlive https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/ which I think is the most advanced OS video editing software around?

Elv13 11y ago
Thanks god KDenLive is catching up. Cinelerra[1] (and the cinelerra-cv community fork) was/is more advanced, but its interface is stuck in the 90's, it manage to crash twice per CPU cycle due to horrible code and is resealed without warning in big code dump every year or so. I lost -so- much time in this back in high-school (10-12 years ago) because it was the only high end editor on Linux. Back then the early KDenLive version were not so much better stability wise. However they came a long, long way. Too bad I don't need Video editor anymore, but I still compile KDenLive to see the new features. [1] http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/features/editing http://cinelerra.org/2015/index.php/features/editing
- nekopa 11y ago
  Heh, this year is the first time I've actually been able to get Cinelerra to run. I think the worst time I ever had with it was trying to compile it on Slackware a few years ago. Hours of compilation and nothing to show except insta-crash.
nekopa 11y ago
See my comment below, I don't think it has the same use case as kdenlive. But I will be trying out kdenlive this year to see how it stacks up for my simple use case. How does kdenlive stack up against Cinelerra? I thought that was the most advanced video editor? Next week I will be testing kdenlive, Openshot, Cinelerra and Blender Video Sequence Editor to see what works quickly and easily for my use case. One of the problems I face is that I have to make 3 compilation videos in one evening, using a weeks worth of footage. When I used Premiere one year it took me from 8pm until 5am to get it all done (mainly because I was learning how to use the software at the same time).
- Elv13 11y ago

arc_of_descent 11y ago

I do some video recording, with separate audio and then I use a video editor to multiplex the video/audio. And then of course, some nice titles, video fade in/out, brightness adjustment, etc. Over the past 3 years, I've gone through Cinelerra, OpenShot, Kdenlive, and some I can't even remember. Very frustrated over the state of video editing on Linux, I unfortunately once had to use the editor on Windows. :( But now, I'm using Kdenlive each time, and I'm very happy with it. There are some tutorials out there on YouTube which help too.

reddotX 11y ago
try shotcut
yoo1I 11y ago
I don't you know if you've tried it, but I found the video editor in Blender to the best Linux editor for me yet. Definitely worth a shot.
- iyn 11y ago
  Blender seems to be a very good video editor BUT having tried it and many other ones, Blender is not as easy to start working with as most other editors. Still, given its features -- yes, I believe it's worth putting the lime to learn it.
phillc73 11y ago
It might be worth investigating Lightworks. It's a professional grade NLE[0], with a "free" version, with limits on output format. Five or six years ago, EditStore purchased the Lightworks product, with promises of open sourcing the code[1], but that doesn't seem to have happened. However, there's a pretty stable Linux version available to download[2]. [0] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=103&Itemid=214 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=articl... [1] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&catid=19&id=1251&Itemid=81 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_kunena&func=view&ca... [2] http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&Itemid=206&tab=1 http://www.lwks.com/index.php?option=com_lwks&view=download&...

dineshp2 11y ago

I have been following the development of Openshot for the past 3 years and I can't help but think that the progress is very slow. Being an open source project and one in which a sufficiently large number of people are interested, why is that the project is moving so slowly?

rogerbinns 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_second-system_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month#The_sec... The authors decided to redo the underlying library. And change the user interface. And go cross platform. That amounts to a virtual rewrite from scratch.

SEJeff 11y ago

I wonder how the new Openshot compares to Pitivi: http://pitivi.org/?go=tour http://pitivi.org/?go=tour Having followed the dev of some of these for years (>6 years), I see Pitivi as slow dev-wise, but one of the few consistent ones.

me_bx 11y ago

So, are these the options we have now to edit video with open source software? Any other tool missing? * http://www.shotcut.org/ http://www.shotcut.org/ * https://kdenlive.org/ https://kdenlive.org/ * http://www.pitivi.org/ http://www.pitivi.org/ * http://www.openshotvideo.com/ http://www.openshotvideo.com/ * http://cinelerra.org/2015/ http://cinelerra.org/2015/ * https://www.blender.org/ https://www.blender.org/ It would be great to have a place comparing the feature of all the open source video editors...

phillc73 11y ago
Natron, an open source compositor: http://natron.fr/ http://natron.fr/ LiVES: http://lives-video.com/ http://lives-video.com/ Lumiera, a re-write of Cinelerra: http://lumiera.org/ http://lumiera.org/ I think one also needs to clearly define the term "edit video." This list concentrates on Non-Linear Editors (NLE), but, for example, it is possible to "edit video" with ffmpeg.
anoother 11y ago
Also http://lumiera.org/ http://lumiera.org/
Elv13 11y ago
http://www.jahshaka.com http://www.jahshaka.com

manishsharan 11y ago

Is OpenShot is the GUI frontend to MLT ? Or does it do more ?