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50 Posts, 65 Commits, and 1 Year!  

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May 1st marked the one year anniversary on my decision to create a non-linear video editor for Linux. I thought it might be fun to reflect on how far the project has come. It seems like just yesterday I began this crazy adventure, and now it's already been a year. Wow.

Here are a few fun facts:

• This is my 50th blog post on www.OpenShotVideo.com!
• We just made our 65th commit to the source code!
• We have 2,292 lines of Python
• We have 2,310 lines of XML
  
• We have 1,450 comment lines (38.7% comment ratio. If you ignore the XML, our comment ratio is above 60%!)

As you can see, we have made lots of progress over the past year. Since switching to the MLT framework, we have really kicked it up a notch, and have made more progress than ever before.

And, to continue the trend of progress, here are some screenshots of two new features, the mute button and the visibility button. As you can see, both the track and the clip now have 2 icons (i.e. clickable image buttons). If you click on the mute button, it will not play the audio, and if you click on the visibility button, it will not play the video (but the audio will still play). If you click both buttons, then nothing will play for the clip (which begs the question, why did you put the clip there?).

Close up of new buttons:

Screenshot of the entire window:

2 comments

1. Anonymous  
   May 7, 2009 7:58 PM

   Hey Jonathan
   
   just wanted to say I really look forward to your editor
   
   because, you know, this very evening i wanted to create a very simple youtube video, just consisting of one audio track from an mp3 file and one static image
   
   -- and I tried like a dozen or so editing apps and none managed to to it :D
   
   kdenlive was the one which nearly managed it but due to a poorly kept PPA I couldn't update it to 0.7 and had to use 0.6svn which showed quite some quirks ...
   
   
   well enough of that, just wanna say I really appreciate your work and I hope OpenShot will live to see the day it gets deployed and used by all sorts of people :)
   
   Then Ubuntu could finally hav a out-of-the-box video editing app (and Kubuntu could take kdenlive or whatever :D)
   
   its really a shame the old Movie Maker 2 is better than all the Linux apps atm for simple video editing tasks :D.
   
   Good Luck and have fun :).
   
   Wish you all the best :).

2. Jonathan Thomas  
   May 7, 2009 10:07 PM

   Thanks for the comment and nice words! Please keep checking in on OpenShot and let us know what you think as we move forward.

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