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OpenShot Video Editor 2.6.1

OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor licensed under the GPL version 3.0. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats. What really sets OpenShot apart from other video editors is the easy-to-use user interface.

OpenShot has many great features, such as trimming and arranging videos, adjusting audio levels, transitions between videos, compositing multiple layers of video, chroma-key / green screen effect, and support of most formats and codecs.

OpenShot key features:

  • Cross-platform (Supports Linux, OS X, 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
  • 3D Animated Titles (and Effects)
  • SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
  • Scrolling motion picture credits
  • Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
  • Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
  • Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
  • Frame stepping (key-mappings: J, K, and L keys)
  • Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)
  • Digital zooming of video clips
  • Time-mapping and Speed changes on clips (slow/fast, forward/backward, etc...)
  • Custom transition lumas and masks
  • Audio mixing and editing
  • Presets for key frame animations and layout
  • Ken Burns effect (artistic panning over an image)
  • Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and many more!
  • OpenShot provides extensive editing and compositing features, and has been designed as a practical tool for working with high-definition video including HDV and AVCHD .

OpenShot 2.6.1 highlights:

  • Auto migration of Crop keyframes from 2.5.1 projects (adds a crop effect and sets the equivellent keyframes). 100% backwards compatibility.
  • Title Editor: TAB between fields
  • Fix Windows drive letter regression, where saving projects on a different drive than the assets would cause corruption. 2.6.1 will also repairs any corruption detected in *.osp project files.
  • Fix many broken language translations (pt_BR, sk, lt, ko)
  • Updating many language translations to 100%:
  • Afrikaans
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Danish
  • Dutch
  • English (United Kingdom)
  • Gaelic; Scottish
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Turkish
  • French
  • Improved language translation testing scripts, and adding automated tests to fail GitHub PRs loudly if translations are broken
  • Protection against many uninitialized variable errors, reported by Sentry.io
  • Silenced a loud thumbnail server warning
  • Prevent a divide by zero error on video preview resizing
  • Updated credits and contributors
  • Bumping version to 2.6.1 (minimum libopenshot 0.2.7, SO 21)

Download: OpenShot Video Editor 2.6.1 (32-bit) | 165.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: OpenShot Video Editor 2.6.1 (64-bit)
Links: OpenShot Home Page | Help Manual | Other Operating Systems

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