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OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor
- Almondsetat 1mo agoSince the announcement is, frustratingly, low on details, did they implement the usual hue vs hue, hue vs sat, etc. controls? I don't do much color grading but my line of work requires using multiple cameras, thus I enjoy using a color chart to match the video clips. With a vectorscope and with the color chart I could quickly do basically everthing I need with this software instead of relying in Resolve, if only it offered those controls
- Maken 1mo agoJust check the documentation: https://zh.openshot.org/files/user-guide/color.html https://zh.openshot.org/files/user-guide/color.html
- Joel_Mckay 1mo agoIn general, DaVinci Resolve on Linux desktops handles Dlog/HDR camera and drone LUTs like a champ (KDE plasma handles HDR10.) When they run the budget speed-editor promos you get the studio license card for free. If you needed gyroflow because your cameraman has a thorazine stomp, there are few completely FOSS options around. For old or no GPU, there are a few other options: OpenShot is simple, Shotcut works everywhere, and https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/en https://www.cinelerra-gg.org/en can handle >4k footage for free. Depends how much time you have to dig through manuals. =3
- Almondsetat 1mo agoIs this a bot reply?
- Joel_Mckay 1mo agoJust a hobby filled with a lot of anecdotal nonsense on the web. If you fly a platform that stores D-log M video and RAW images... there are very few FOSS options to share great looking content. =3
- akrauss 1mo agoAdtech cookie banner on a .org domain for a thing whose name starts with „Open“? No thanks. Won‘t look further.
- iLoveOncall 1mo agoOh come on, they only have 210 "partners" they give your data to!
- magicalhippo 1mo agoYou jest, but with even trivial sites having 900+ so-called partners, "only" does indeed seem apt.
- LoganDark 1mo agoI feel like the only way to have this many "partners" as is to inherit them, at least if you're 'trivial'. Like, they probably chose some ad or tracking script that has so many partners.
- iLoveOncall 1mo agoI know, but we're talking about some free & open-source software funded by donations, not a for-profit company. Funnily enough their not (fully) free and not open source competitor DaVinci Resolve doesn't have a cookie banner and doesn't set any cookies on your browser.
- bonoboTP 1mo agoIts name starts with Open because it's open-source / free software (GNU GPLv3).
- TheChaplain 1mo agoYour loss then. Although I prefer KDEnlive, OpenShot is not a bad video editor. And I don't think it's a terrible thing for an open source developer to try to earn a few coins.
- mogwire 1mo ago
- Schlagbohrer 1mo agoHas anyone tried having a local agent (like Qwen) use this? I wonder how good the API is for programmatic / CLI usage.
- drob518 1mo agoThat was the first question that popped into my head as well. We’re now in the age of “AI all the things,” so it seems like every app needs an API or CLI of some sort. Everything needs to be machine accessible.
- nasso_dev 1mo agoshouldn't we focus on human accessibility first? it also makes things more "machine accessible" as a byproduct, but at least humans remain the main focus also, openshot is foss. can't you just give the source code to your clanker and let it mod itself in the app?
- dmix 1mo ago> shouldn't we focus on human accessibility first? This is the big question for designers, how much of the future of software will be human-oriented UIs vs a human typing into a chat window (or as a temporary bridge, telling an agent to operate existing GUIs). For now I believe agent-driven software is still pretty niche, something for highly technical users, but that will change as it mainstreams. Early adopters demand early adopter software features.
- nasso_dev 1mo agoa chat window is actually HORRIBLE for many tasks. i really strongly hope this isn't what the future of software looks like there is just no way a chat interface could replace a non-linear video editor gui
- _joel 1mo agoI would assume it would be for driving via agentic means, more AI video slop.
- bewareofscams 1mo agoHow does this compare to After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Davinci Resolve? I am pretty sure, this thing solves half of the problems the above solve, and it does it half-good.
- Matl 1mo agoI am pretty sure you haven't tried it yourself. I am also pretty sure the software you mention is significantly more expensive or at least not open source. Which makes me pretty sure yours was a useless comment.
- bewareofscams 1mo agoI have tried the ones I have mentioned, and I hadn't tried this one, - which is precisely why I am asking! No need for snarky "but ours is foss smugface" comments. Not to say, your comment make me pretty sure you hadn't tried either of mentioned by me, and does not take video editing seriously.
- Matl 1mo agoI use and pay for DaVinci Resolve Studio on Linux myself, so yes I have tried them and yes, they're obviously more feature packed and polished than OpenShot is. OpenShot is however significantly easier to use and does what you need for casual editing. If you want a step above that and still FLOSS then Kdenlive is a better choice. What makes your original comment useless is that it reads like an American saying, 'I bet our GDP is bigger than Nauru's' - like what is the point? You know the answer already. An open source video editor is unlikely to be as good as DaVinci Resolve. DaVinci has multiplicity of the resources OpenShot/Kdenlive etc. do. So again, what is your point?
- bewareofscams 1mo agoAt least we can agree in our mutual disdain towards american way of thinking *shaking hands*
- zikani_03 1mo agoNice, looks like a great release. UI looks like it got a nice touch up and also cool to see that the project has AI powered object masking using onnx models: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-onnx https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-onnx.
- jonathanstrange 1mo agoIf it had VST support I could use it instead of DaVinci Resolve.
- Joel_Mckay 1mo agoIf you publish to platforms like YT, DaVinci Resolve can actually prepare your audio so it remains intact during their compression shenanigans. I don't know of any FOSS programs that can automatically handle it cleanly. =3
- efilife 1mo agoWhat do you mean? Like it can export audio to a separate file?
- Joel_Mckay 1mo agoProvides a simple baked workflow to normalize audio in a manner that survives YT encoding. Warning for headphone users, the tutorial has examples of what not to do. =3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFbOKDgSbw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYFbOKDgSbw
- efilife 1mo agoAm I missing something? This is a very regular workflow that works the same in all software. It seems to provide you with a LUFS meter, then you manually adjust volume to what youtube expects you to. > normalize audio in a manner that survives YT encoding. > Discover how to avoid YouTube's compression and achieve crystal clear sound. Youtube won't audibly compress your audio. It will just turn it up or down to the desired LUFS level. You being at a -8 LUFS will not cause any more compression compared to you being at -14. I'd argue that this video is misinformation presented as something useful.
- Joel_Mckay 1mo agoAudio dynamic compression means something different from file data compression. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_range_compression It is a trick abused by advertisers for years, to be perceived as "loader" at the same volume setting. If one blindly exports whatever standard you edit in... ymmv =3
- localtoast2 1mo agoThis is one of those occasions where a video would be appropriate.
- Mashimo 1mo agoThey have videos for 3.0, 3.3 and 3.4, maybe check back on their channel in a few days or weeks: https://www.youtube.com/@OpenShotOfficial/videos https://www.youtube.com/@OpenShotOfficial/videos
- renegat0x0 1mo ago- ...but is the video encoding fast? - Does it often break while encoding? That was my experience some years ago and I decided I will skip a decade to see it all working.
- zersiax 1mo agoWill have to give this a whirl with a screen reader, see how it does. Given the only somewhat working video editor accessibility-wise is currently Clipchamp, competition is sorely needed. Don't have high hopes, but I guess a x.0 release might be the time for me to start fixing it if nobody else is going to -.-
- conradfr 1mo agoThat seems excellent. I wonder if they finally change the caption editing with the weird timing reference, probably not. edit: this is what I'm talking about: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenShot/comments/1s27wre/the_way_captions_timestamps_work_is_silly/ https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenShot/comments/1s27wre/the_way_c... edit: can't really try as it crashes on my M1 Sequoia (maybe the install being named OpenShot-v4.0.0-x86_64.dmg was not a good sign ;))
- woadwarrior01 1mo agoThe cookie banner and the list of 209 adtech vendors they share user data with is so repulsive.
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- sejje 1mo agoTry AdGuard DNS or an adblocker. I didn't see any ads on the site.
- woadwarrior01 1mo agoI have an adblocker. You don't see the cookie banner because you're likely outside the EU and your data is silently being shared with the aforementioned adtech vendors. The EU requires "informed consent" for this within their jurisdiction, hence the cookie banner.
- sejje 1mo agoI have cookie banner blockers, too. We get plenty of those banners in the US.
- y42 1mo agoI am quite familiar with Resolve..I am not a pro, and it's probably totally overload for my purpose, but I think it's easy to learn and even quite intuitive I tried many others, but mostly all others are not stable enough or have an even worse UI/UX... so I wonder... is this different?
- VariousPrograms 1mo agoI’m also not pro and just need an editor for Youtube or work. I think open source editors like Openshot and Kdenlive are generally underrated and easier to use than they used to be but even for just cutting together clips, adding text, and using keyframes it’s hard to beat how nice Resolve is.
- ankit84 1mo agoA Video editor landing pages with still screenshots doesn't do any justice for new comer. The power can only be shown with smal 10-30s in-inline videos.
- chrisandchris 1mo agoLike the animated GIF on the landing page? [1] https://www.openshot.org/ https://www.openshot.org/
- Brosper 1mo agoYes!
- countrymile 1mo agoHow far is blender off this nowadays?
- embedding-shape 1mo agoAFAIK out of "Record, Edit, and Color", Blender mostly excels at the editing part of video editing. There is no recording at all, and coloring you'd do via the "Post Processing" which can be via nodes or "standard". Coloring is alright, although far cry from Resolve. If you're already used to the Blender shortcuts though, editing video is a breeze and everything just works as expected, which is really nice. But I wouldn't pick up Blender and its shortcuts just to edit video, then I'd probably go with something more fully meant for video editing.
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- timonoko 1mo agoI have dream that Oneday Oneday these surpass Cinelerra, written in 1996. Thirty Years Ago.
- prmoustache 1mo agoIt is not like Cinerella's current release is thirty years old though. You are talking thirty years of development.
- hn_submit 1mo agoI've supported OpenShot financially in the past, but I'm currently leaning towards LosslessCut and Shortcut. Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding. I believe this behavior (lossless) should be default on all of these editors.
- nickjj 1mo ago> Most people want a video editor to splice and concatenate video files without any loss or transcoding You can do this with mpv. It's an open source cross platform media player. For example, here's how I set up a tiny Lua script extension[0] to be able to visually cut videos in an intuitive way. It does it in seconds without re-rendering the video by shelling out to ffmpeg. Years ago I did the same thing with a shell script CLI tool[1], but mpv's visual aspect makes it so much faster and easier to make clips out of a longer video. [0]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/visually-create-video-clips-with-mpv-ffmpeg-and-a-lua-extension https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/visually-create-video-clips-w... [1]: https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-video-clips-with-ffmpeg-in-seconds https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/create-video-clips-with-ffmpe...
- gandreani 1mo agoThis is very cool! Do you have a similar workflow for stitching those cut clips together?
- nickjj 1mo agoThanks. Not through mpv, but if all of the videos are the same resolution and codec you can use ffmpeg to concat them without needing to re-encode anything. It could be worth making a little wrapper script for this, but the ffmpeg command itself isn't too crazy. You can Google for "ffmpeg concat multiple videos into a single video without re-encoding". ffmpeg is super powerful, you can technically resize and alter videos into a consistent format and then encode a new video too.
- smartbit 1mo agoVideo editor app that generates FFmpeg commands https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207002 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42207002
- featwanz 1mo agoIs this effectively a leaner more basic, record, cut, colour version of Resolve?
- superkuh 1mo agoBlackmagicdesign corporation's Davinci Resolve doesn't run on most OSes. So I can't tell you. But I can tell you that openshot allows me to edit videos quickly on linux. I like it.
- neuromute 1mo agoWhen you say doesn't run on most OSes, which are you referring to? I'm just curious, as Davinci Resolve runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
- superkuh 29d agoNo it doesn't. It runs on Windows and Mac. With a complex setup of wine or wine derived software you can create a windows compatibility layer and sort of run Davinici Resolve on linux. But just a random distro and random wine won't do it. There are containers like Davincibox Q too. But of course while this is "running" on Linux it is buggy, will have codec problems, and is still not really running on linux. Don't even try if you have an AMD GPU. And every time you reconnect to a new wifi AP it'll make you re-enter your license key, no sound on most linux distros that have ever existed, etc. It's not a good or even decent experience.
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- TheAtomic 1mo agoSo it runs on ? I really wish all s/w had the platform and price in line 1.
- xnx 1mo agoLinux, Mac, Windows, Chrome. $0
- TheAtomic 1mo agoOk, all the usuals. TBF, it is on their home screen, https://www.openshot.org/download/ https://www.openshot.org/download/
- Gisbitus 1mo agoTheir homepage features a download button, with all the platforms listed, as the first thing when you open it.
- kraktoos 1mo ago(self promotion) I've been working on OpenPost's Video Editor (Svelte-based video editor that runs on your (chromium) browser). If anyone's looking for something they can run on the browser, fully free and OSS as well, check it out https://app.openpost.social/video-editor https://app.openpost.social/video-editor Currently really in early Beta but this seems like a great place to mention it. Here is the repo if you want to give it a star https://github.com/getopenpost/openpost https://github.com/getopenpost/openpost
- upcoming-sesame 1mo agoThe "open-x" product name inflation - how did that happen
- echelon 1mo ago"open-x" for anything not actually OSS/FOSS should be banned. Just like "engineer" is a reserved term in many jurisdictions, "open" should be too. At least in our industry. If a bakery wants to call itself "open", so be it. But if software calls itself "open", it had better be open. OpenAI, OpenRouter, OpenArt, OpenGov, OpenWeb, OpenText, ... this is all malarkey. The only instance where "open" isn't trying to pose as open source is when it's a verb or adjective coupled with a noun used in a well-understood colloquial manner, eg. "OpenDoor", "OpenTable". OpenAI implies open source AI. Look at how hard this "open" company tries to regulate open weights. OpenRouter implies open source routing. Their platform isn't open source at all, and a lot of the specifics people will grow to care about are entirely proprietary. Don't even get me started on OpenGov, which is a complete travesty. These are such bold-faced lies.
- Fogest 1mo agoSome governments do seem to take the OpenGov label to heart and make a good effort to have a good amount of their data be open to the public. However there definitely is a large majority who just latched on to the label they likely heard at a conference, and don't truly understand the concept. They just saw everyone else doing it and decided they need to hop on the bandwagon and throw a few cookies out to make it look like they followed course. When AI was new, I definitely got fooled by "OpenAI" and thought it was an open source style AI company. Boy was I wrong there. The straight abuse of language lately has become quite frustrating overall, but part of that gets political and I'll stray away from that to not get too off topic. When I see these words like "Open" used in the title so often, it just makes the word feel like it's tied to a new fad, and makes it harder for me to trust projects with those names.
- ricardobeat 1mo agoWho knew a QT app could look this good? Congratulations on the release.
- stogot 1mo agoThis is QT? I couldn’t tell it looks so good
- encrypted_bird 1mo agoOf course it's QT. One might even say it's adorable.
- smusamashah 1mo agoThere is also Blick which launched recently which claims to be very very fast https://blickeditor.com/?lang=en https://blickeditor.com/?lang=en and part of recent wave of fast software (Task Slinger, File Pilot)
- bberrry 1mo agoNeither open source nor free however.
- echelon 1mo agoYou will save so much time and energy using the free/shareware DaVinci Resolve instead of OpenShot. I have hope for OpenShot, but it's still not there.
- cleaning 1mo agoThe fact that they reimplemented everything from scratch doesn't give much confidence. The last thing I want to deal with in a video editor are bugs from code that's seen less real-world use, originating from who knows where.
- RobotToaster 1mo agoNot to be confused with OpenCut, which is a completely different FLOSS video editor.
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- Brosper 1mo agoI would love OpenShot to update their website. It's not; it's just for me. The current design makes me not use this software. I would love to help make new website for them.
- yieldcrv 1mo agoany interest in adding agentic capabilities? The major design companies have this to supplant their theoretically now less attractive SaaS revenue, letting professionals automate most things through their creative suite products with LLMs doing a lot of reasoning about what to do and how to composite, but it all goes through cloud compute instances and they basically won’t add a local server to their products because they cant charge per credit. So that retains a bottleneck on uploading and file sizes and other things If Openshot started competing in that regard it would be very forward looking. I wouldnt even say competitive yet because people dont really know about this use of AI and associate AI creativity with generative only, instead of just replicating the human processes for mass output faster
- poulpy123 1mo agoEasy solved, just ask your agents to build a video editor
- jamesforestwest 1mo agoThe caption editing workflow has been a pain point for years. I'm surprised they didn't fix it in a major release.
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- dang 1mo agoRelated. Others? OpenShot 3.0 Released – Stability, Performance, and Usability - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33943790 - Dec 2022 (3 comments) OpenShot Video Editor – Free, Open and Award-Winning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31324136 - May 2022 (2 comments) OpenShot 2.6.0 Released – AI and Computer Vision and Audio Effects - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324536 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28324536 - Aug 2021 (16 comments) OpenShot 2.5.0: Video Editing and Hardware Acceleration - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336504 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22336504 - Feb 2020 (4 comments) OpenShot – Open-Source Video Editor - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725823 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19725823 - April 2019 (88 comments) OpenShot 2.4.1 Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15689998 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15689998 - Nov 2017 (10 comments) OpenShot 2.0.6 (Public Beta) Released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071014 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071014 - Feb 2016 (27 comments) OpenShot Video Editor Achieves $35k on Kickstarter, Final Goal in Reach - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552289 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5552289 - April 2013 (1 comment)
- gilesvangruisen 1mo agoWhy does open source software tend to lack quality / usable design?
- MichaelDickens 1mo agoI don't work on open source but it could be: - Good design requires user interviews, which are less common in open source - The sorts of people who are most attracted to open source work are programmers, not designers - Open source software can get popular even with bad design; closed source software with bad design fails and shuts down
- omnimus 1mo agoDesigners have it really hard in free software because good design is about understanding the big picture, knowing what to leave out, have product vision to follow. That's tough to do in environment where goal is to make everyone happy and the biggest say have programmers who are developing the thing who are usually not interested in design, inexperienced in design or have their personal very specific product vision.
- Fogest 1mo agoI think you definitely identified the issue well. Changing the design of an existing project, especially if you're not already involved in the project is a daunting task. You have to try and convince a core group of users that the design is going to be better to entice new users. But the problem is that those core group of developers likely don't care that the UI isn't up to par, and likely don't want it to change. I even remember having this problem personally when trying to improve designs of webpages at my workplace. We had many of our technical users still using the command line for their mail, and even for browsing some webpages. Their whole workflow was stuck in the command line and they've been doing it that way for 20+ years. Trying to change things to improve the experience for others was like pulling teeth. They would retort the classic "Why change it? It works the way it is, no need to change it". Which to a degree I can understand. Some websites out there really do change their UI's for completely silly reasons and sometimes even lose functionality because of it. At least this is one positive thing coming from AI driven development. People can actually make some pretty decent UI's without having to know as much about good UI design. AI can try to utilize the "best practice" standards and make a UI that often looks much better than most devs could make. There are some downsides of course, such as the fact that almost every new website nowadays looks the same, since Claude seems to have one style it always goes with. But maybe that tradeoff is okay.
- temeritatis 1mo agoI tried openshot, shotcut and kdenlive. They all felt rather cheap. Flowblade was a nice surprise tho.
- jhallenworld 1mo agoMy goto has been Shotcut, it's main advantage is high resolution support without having to pay extra compared to something like Lightworks (which has a better UI for sure, but I'm not paying...).
- peter_d_sherman 1mo agoLooks good! I decided to have a quick, cursory, "first-glance" look at OpenShot's software architecture... It apparently (and again, someone correct me if I am wrong here) uses FFmpeg (https://www.ffmpeg.org/ https://www.ffmpeg.org/ https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git https://git.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.git https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg https://github.com/FFmpeg/FFmpeg), more specifically the FFmpeg libraries (libavutil, libavcodec, libavformat, libavdevice, libavfilter, libswscale, libswresample). Nothing wrong with that, countless video and video-related programs, most notably VLC -- use FFmpeg as their base software layer. LibAv (https://github.com/libav/libav https://github.com/libav/libav), a fork of FFmpeg, can also apparently be "swapped in" as the base layer, replacing FFmpeg if so desired. FFmpeg/LibAv are written in C, primarily adhering to the C99 standard. From there, building on top of that, we have libopenshot (https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot) which is a C++ "middle level" library generating/abstracting a higher-level API for video editing specifically, and containing bindings to C++, but perhaps more notably, additionally to Python and Ruby... Then on top of that, we finally have OpenShot (more specifically 'openshot-qt': https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt) which is written entirely in Python 3.x, which uses PyQt (which bind to Qt libraries which give the software its platform independence!). And of course, there are some other libraries and repos for other things here: https://github.com/OpenShot https://github.com/OpenShot, for example, libopenshot-audio for audio, etc. Opinion: Let me start off by saying that I am NOT a Python guy! I'd rather program in Delphi/ObjectPascal, C, C++, x86 Assembler, Java, Lisp, Scheme, Racket, Clojure, Haskell, R, Odin, Zig, or, if someone put a gun to my head, JavaScript (without Typescript!) or Rust! (too large a compiler, too many imported dependencies in many libraries/crates -- the language itself I have nothing against!) But, that being said (also, I'll say I've seen some truly great programs written in Rust, before the community tars and feathers me!), I have seen just how powerful a teaching tool for programming tool Python is! This is not a simple Python "Hello World" program! This program is powerful, quite powerful indeed! It showcases what Python can do by coordinating and managing lower-level functionalities! It's also an excellent program from the perspective of garnering GitHub community support (think about it, the barrier to "chip in" and offer help/assistance/bug fixes/functionality improvements is lower, way lower on a Python program than it is on say, a C++ program using all of the latest C++23 language features or on a LISP-derived language using many deep asymmetric recursive meta constructs...) It's also a great example of a Python cross-platform program! And I really like the way that the software is delivered in discrete layers, i.e., the C++ middle layer has its own dedicated GitHub repo (as opposed to being co-mingled with the Python higher level one), etc. So, great job! This is truly a Python exemplar program! Some really good Software Engineering practices in this one!
- dazzatron 1mo agoIt's good to see this is still under active development. Bit of self promo but I have worked on another interesting video editor called Shotstack Studio SDK. https://github.com/shotstack/shotstack-studio-sdk https://github.com/shotstack/shotstack-studio-sdk More for embedding a video editor into your own application but may be of interest for those who like Openshot.
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- abustamam 1mo agoI played with OpenShot and it seemed neat but a bit complicated to use. I found KDenLive more intuitive for my (simplistic) use cases. Maybe I'll give OS4 a... shot 8D