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Open-source projects are often judged on the quality of their documentation. With that in mind, we are proud to announce the immediate availability of the OpenShot Help Manual (Available in English, French, and Spanish)! It contains over 100 topics, 100 illustrations, and even a topic called "Learn OpenShot in 5 minutes"!
We have been hard at work on this for a long time. I would like to especially thank Olivier Girard and Helen McCall for their dedication and hard work. Countless hours have been spent researching, writing, editing, translating, and proof-reading.
The help manual has been added to our PPA in a new package called "openshot-docs". So, if you have already installed OpenShot from the PPA, you should be able to install the openshot-docs package via Synaptic or apt-get.
To launch the help manual (after installing), use this command:
$ yelp ghelp://openshot
To view the HTML version, use these links:
But wait, is your language missing? Do you want to read our help manual in your own language? If so, please join us and help translate our help manual. It is super easy to do, and 100% web-based. To start translating, and get your name in the credits of OpenShot, follow these steps:
- Login to LaunchPad (or create a free account)
- Visit the openshot-docs translation page
- Click on your language
- Start translating phrase by phrase
I was hoping to have version 1.0 of OpenShot completed by Christmas, but it will likely slip to January 1, 2010. I have many updates included in version 1.0, so stay tuned for more information.
December 24, 2009 2:23 AM
Wow! Great job! I'm glad that you take documentation so seriously!
December 24, 2009 8:10 PM
Thank you Jonathan, Merry Christmas.
December 25, 2009 3:33 PM
Hello everybody
just one tip for display the help.
Open Openshot, go to the menu Help and show help or more quicly when Openshot is open, type F1.
Cenwen/Olivier
December 26, 2009 10:47 AM
Hello Mr.Thomas , good luck for the next year. It would be good OpenShot was in Ubuntu 10.4 per default , it would be perfect and good would make a request to the Ubuntu developers for them to look and possible inclusion in any other program distribution removing less useful. Well,is my appreciation. Excuse my bad English. I am speaking spanish,(I´m from Colombia) and I'm in the group of the Spanish translation of the OpenShot manual
December 27, 2009 8:10 AM
@ivanivichenco
Hola. Muchas gracias para todos y para todos los esfuerzo. Colombia es un magnifico paĩs(Bogota-2007).
For the others(french communauty!)
I explain a tip for displaying correctly the french help on the french blog : http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/2009/12/25/et-avec-un-peu-daide-ca-nirait-pas-mieux-openshot-le-manuel/
Je rappelle que ce blog sert de pont entre le site officiel et la communauté française, vous y trouverez notamment un article sur ce manuel expliquant son installation et un astuce afin d'avoir l'aide française s'afficher dans yelp simplement. Je rappelle aussi l'existence d'un forum dont une section est française.
I remind that you have too :
for the french communauty : http://linuxevolution.wordpress.com/
the forum for theinternationnal communauty : http://openshotusers.com/forum/index.php
and the english communauty : http://openshotusers.com/
Olivier/Cenwen
December 27, 2009 6:49 PM
Mr. Thomas, the manual in Spanish for OpenShot is ready. Today was culminated the work. Please publish it. Thank you.
December 27, 2009 10:34 PM
@ivanovichenco
Congratulations to you and the other 6 people that worked on the Spanish translation! Great job! I have added it to the PPA, and we'll get published to the website soon.
December 29, 2009 5:00 AM
Hi, just letting you know that I've started to translate the manual into Norwegian.
December 30, 2009 10:34 AM
The help manual is now available in Spanish: http://www.openshotusers.com/help/es/html. Thanks again to all of the translators!
February 27, 2010 12:30 PM
Manuals URLs have changed (now, withouth html/). Greetings, Manuel