OpenShot Video Editor (OpenShot for short) is a free, open-source, award-winning, user-friendly and powerful video editing application for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS platforms, developed by Jonathan Thomas in 2008. It is dedicated to provide a high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.
OpenShot comes with a clean UI layout, cool skins and presets, useful feature options, and simple operations. so it is perfect for video editing novices. Although it's free, there's nothing ambiguous about OpenShot's capabilities. It has video cropping, marking, splitting, merging, rotation, composition, adding transitions, special effects, watermarks and subtitles, editing audio tracks and so on all the common video editing functions. To some extent, it is even comparable to some professional video editing software.
In addition, OpenShot supports UTF-8 characters (i.e. multiple languages), online translation, multi-core processor parallel processing, batch processing, animation & keyframes, unlimited video/audio tracks, 3D dynamic titles, slow motion and time effects (invert, slow down and speed up video), and allows to custom footage packages and install add-ons to extend features further.
Key Features
- 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)
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