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OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects

87 points by pmontra 5y ago

prox 5y ago
Openshot when I last tried it was a bit buggy / unpolished, and I opted for Kdenlive. Going to try this new version. It’s nice to see these editors improve!
- greypowerOz 5y ago
  fellow kdenlive user here, would really like to hear your findings... for some reason recent kdenlive releases seem to have inordinately slow render times on my laptop (no GPU ;) so I'm open to alternatives.. ps don't take this as an assault on kdenlive,please!! It's been good to me,,
  - prox 5y ago
    I think the GPU helps alot, since my render times are usually very quick on Kden, like a couple of minutes tops for a short film edit. I am downloading now, will comment later!
  - prox 5y ago
    I just tried it, and Openshot doesn’t have hardware acceleration beyond encoding, so preview is very choppy, this is on my windows box btw.
- rograndom 5y ago
  Are they comparable? I thought Openshot was like After Effects and Kdenlive was more like Premiere?
  - Jiocus 5y ago
    The Openshot proprietary analogue is more similar to Windows Movie Maker. Though the latter felt more useful and less error-prone
  - prox 5y ago
    I don’t think both can compete for any true professional seats at the moment. Even on mobile LumaFusion is ten times better. Kdenlive has some use if you are amateur or if you edit every now and then. Sometimes you need something that splices videos and nothing much more, Kdenlive will meet those needs.
trog 5y ago
I was an early Kickstarter backer of this project and have been really impressed with the progress. I try most released and think it has a lot of potential but I seem to run into basic problems all the time. I grabbed the new version this morning to try a basic trim of a mobile video from my phone. The video imported fine but when I changed the video format to portrait mode, I wasn't able to resize the video to fit into the frame. Trying to scale it just made it go crazy - some weird maths error in the resizing, maybe? I'm sure it works fine for a bunch of other use cases but I just seem to always have bad luck with what I try to do! Would love to see more focus on core, basic features and making them rock solid.
- pavlov 5y ago
  > "Would love to see more focus on core, basic features and making them rock solid." This seems to be a perennial problem of open source content creation tools, ever since GIMP in the 1990s. Developers love to tinker on fancy individual features — stuff like the "AI and computer vision" mentioned in this release's headline — but the core workflow gets no love and/or is actively designed against the expectations of users trained on commercial products. There are of course successful counterexamples. Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists. Krita is an open source painting program clearly designed by domain experts, not just CS students looking for an algorithm playground.
  - pbasista 5y ago
    > Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists The UI might be designed well but at least from my experience it is still buggy and freezes [0] regularly. I fully agree that the core functionality absolutely needs to be rock solid. [0] I was attempting to model a basic room with some wall details. During a few hours that I have spent on it in Blender, I have encountered several unexpected gimbal locks which consumed all CPU resources and from which it was impossible to recover. I am using Linux and Wayland and Sway. Yes, some might argue that this is a relatively new and less common setup and that I should give Blender some slack here. But still, it was a very off-putting experience. I can fully understand that some users might never want to use Blender again after having to deal with such basic issues.
Florin_Andrei 5y ago
It's a great little editor and I'm using it all the time. I just wish they added a VBR profile for encoding h.264 video. Every time I make a clip with OpenShot, I have to run the final result through meGUI, converting CBR to VBR, reducing the size of the file quite a lot, while quality remains the same. The default h.264 profile in meGUI would be perfect. Constant Quality mode, Quality = 23, AVC High Profile. Looks the same as high quality CBR but the video is many times smaller.
approxim8ion 5y ago
Openshot is neat but crashes on me repeatedly. I have had more luck with Shotcut, another neat little video editing app. These are closer to something like, say, Camtasia on Windows than Premiere or FinalCut. Still, very useful
JohnTHaller 5y ago
Also available in portable form on Windows: https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/openshot-portable https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/openshot-portable

87 points by pmontra 5y ago

prox 5y ago

Openshot when I last tried it was a bit buggy / unpolished, and I opted for Kdenlive. Going to try this new version. It’s nice to see these editors improve!

greypowerOz 5y ago
fellow kdenlive user here, would really like to hear your findings... for some reason recent kdenlive releases seem to have inordinately slow render times on my laptop (no GPU ;) so I'm open to alternatives.. ps don't take this as an assault on kdenlive,please!! It's been good to me,,
- prox 5y ago
  I think the GPU helps alot, since my render times are usually very quick on Kden, like a couple of minutes tops for a short film edit. I am downloading now, will comment later!
- prox 5y ago
  I just tried it, and Openshot doesn’t have hardware acceleration beyond encoding, so preview is very choppy, this is on my windows box btw.
rograndom 5y ago
Are they comparable? I thought Openshot was like After Effects and Kdenlive was more like Premiere?
- Jiocus 5y ago
  The Openshot proprietary analogue is more similar to Windows Movie Maker. Though the latter felt more useful and less error-prone
- prox 5y ago
  I don’t think both can compete for any true professional seats at the moment. Even on mobile LumaFusion is ten times better. Kdenlive has some use if you are amateur or if you edit every now and then. Sometimes you need something that splices videos and nothing much more, Kdenlive will meet those needs.

trog 5y ago

I was an early Kickstarter backer of this project and have been really impressed with the progress. I try most released and think it has a lot of potential but I seem to run into basic problems all the time. I grabbed the new version this morning to try a basic trim of a mobile video from my phone. The video imported fine but when I changed the video format to portrait mode, I wasn't able to resize the video to fit into the frame. Trying to scale it just made it go crazy - some weird maths error in the resizing, maybe? I'm sure it works fine for a bunch of other use cases but I just seem to always have bad luck with what I try to do! Would love to see more focus on core, basic features and making them rock solid.

pavlov 5y ago
> "Would love to see more focus on core, basic features and making them rock solid." This seems to be a perennial problem of open source content creation tools, ever since GIMP in the 1990s. Developers love to tinker on fancy individual features — stuff like the "AI and computer vision" mentioned in this release's headline — but the core workflow gets no love and/or is actively designed against the expectations of users trained on commercial products. There are of course successful counterexamples. Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists. Krita is an open source painting program clearly designed by domain experts, not just CS students looking for an algorithm playground.
- pbasista 5y ago
  > Blender has managed to overcome this perception by changing its UI and engaging with artists The UI might be designed well but at least from my experience it is still buggy and freezes [0] regularly. I fully agree that the core functionality absolutely needs to be rock solid. [0] I was attempting to model a basic room with some wall details. During a few hours that I have spent on it in Blender, I have encountered several unexpected gimbal locks which consumed all CPU resources and from which it was impossible to recover. I am using Linux and Wayland and Sway. Yes, some might argue that this is a relatively new and less common setup and that I should give Blender some slack here. But still, it was a very off-putting experience. I can fully understand that some users might never want to use Blender again after having to deal with such basic issues.

Florin_Andrei 5y ago

It's a great little editor and I'm using it all the time. I just wish they added a VBR profile for encoding h.264 video. Every time I make a clip with OpenShot, I have to run the final result through meGUI, converting CBR to VBR, reducing the size of the file quite a lot, while quality remains the same. The default h.264 profile in meGUI would be perfect. Constant Quality mode, Quality = 23, AVC High Profile. Looks the same as high quality CBR but the video is many times smaller.

approxim8ion 5y ago

Openshot is neat but crashes on me repeatedly. I have had more luck with Shotcut, another neat little video editing app. These are closer to something like, say, Camtasia on Windows than Premiere or FinalCut. Still, very useful

JohnTHaller 5y ago

Also available in portable form on Windows: https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/openshot-portable https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/openshot-portable