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I am proud to announce that OpenShot Video Editor 1.0 has just been released! This release is jam-packed full of new features, bug fixes, and some shiny new graphics! We hope you enjoy it!
- Transition snapping - Transitions now snap to the nearest clip or the play-head.
- Improved Stability - Just try and crash OpenShot now. We dare you. Seriously though, many common issues that would crash OpenShot have been resolved, and the overall stability is great now.
- Improved Accuracy - The accuracy of our edits and cuts has been improved. No more skipped frames, out of place frames, or flashes of white.
- New Transitions - 28 new transitions have been added.
- New Titles - 29 new titles have been added (both in 4:3 and 16:9 ratios). Also, titles are higher quality, and look great up to 1080p. Based on your project's aspect ratio, the Title Editor will automatically show you the correct aspect ratio titles. In other words... no more squished or stretched titles.
- New Themes - Two new themes have been added, making a total of 4 themes. A) simple theme with smaller icons for small screens. B) flat blue theme - a theme with no glass or gloss.
- Time Format Improved - The time format has been changed to include the frame number, instead of the millisecond:
- New Profile - HDV 720p 24 fps
- More Languages - There are now 42 languages included with OpenShot version 1.0!
- Help Manual Integrated - The help manual is now integrated, and will launch in your native language (assuming we have a translation for that language). Currently, French, Spanish, and English are 100% translated.
- User Interface Enhancements - Many small changes to the UI have been made to simplify OpenShot. The "Open Project" toolbar button has been replaced by the "New Project" button. This removes the confusion between importing files and opening files. A few other buttons, labels, and icons have been changed also.
- Window State Fixed - The window state now correctly recognizes "maximized", and is more reliable. In other words, when you resize the window, vertical panes, or horizontal panes in OpenShot, it remembers your screen layout the next time you launch it.
- Clip Properties Fixed - The IN and OUT properties have been fixed to not allow the user to overlap them. The "Add Effect" button has been fixed to work correctly with audio effects.
- Chroma Key Fixed - Some users were unable to see the color picker on the chroma key effect. This has been fixed.
- Tooltips Translated - The main screen has been improved to show translated tooltips on all of the toolbars.
- Lock File Fixed - The lock file now verifies that it is valid, instead of preventing OpenShot from launching.
January 9, 2010 3:21 AM
Congratulations! Now, I only need a import from camera feature, like Kino with dvgrab. Please take a break, you deserve it.
January 9, 2010 4:22 AM
Congratulations!!!
For a couple months i followed your development, and i helped in the spanish translation of the manual. Really good news. Just right now i'm going to post in my spanish blog (http://disenograficoenlinux.blogspot.com/).
Thanks
January 9, 2010 6:18 AM
Hi I downloaded this beautful software right now (repository update).
I'm very impressed of your great work!!
Thanks a lot!!!
January 9, 2010 6:27 AM
Congratulations Jonathan!
Looking forward to try it when AVLinux will include the 1.0.
January 9, 2010 10:04 AM
Well done!
January 9, 2010 11:11 AM
Thank you very much on behalf of all humans this will benefit all. Long live OpenSource.
January 9, 2010 11:46 AM
Thank to you!
That is a very great work!
You are a wonderful human!
For me Open Shot is the best Videoeditor
Greetings from Germany!
January 9, 2010 12:10 PM
Fantastic!!
A big HUG to the dev-team and the community! I will spread the word.
Congratulation to the 1.0 release!!
January 9, 2010 12:22 PM
It's a very impressive software, it reached an amazing quality and if it development continues it should be the best Linux video editing software. I requested it to be included at Sabayon's package manager: Entropy, this is my favorite distro and OpenShot should be included at the live DVD's .
Keep on the good work
January 9, 2010 2:15 PM
Very impressed with what the openshot community has been able to accomplish thus far (and so quickly) -- heartfelt congratulations!
Thank you for all your work!!!
January 9, 2010 2:25 PM
Congratulations!
It's great work.
I am a translator of Japanese edition and very happy to hear the announcement.
January 9, 2010 4:21 PM
Congratulations! :)
OpenShot is alredy the best video editor for Linux. I'm going to continue my contribution in the Italian translation.
January 9, 2010 7:20 PM
This is great news.
Fantastic news, you guys have hit both Slashdot and reddit.com, you can also help upvote the Digg article (which hasn't hit frontpage yet).
Good work guys.
January 9, 2010 8:04 PM
Very nice and works well. Unfortunately
I did manage to meet your challenge of crashing it. I basically imported a bunch of clips and then added one to a timeline. I cut out a few parts and lined them up in another track. I then proceeded to add and take away a bunch of effects to the new track. It crashed after several effects. It just said "Segmentation fault". It really isn't reproducible, so I don't know how this will help you.
January 9, 2010 9:41 PM
Congratulations on this release!
Just wanted to let you know that your installation instructions for Ubuntu 9.10 can be much more easy. No need to authenticate the keys and fiddling around. It's as simple as this:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot
January 9, 2010 11:53 PM
Congratulations! This is great news for Linux as a great piece of non-linear editing software has been missing for a long time. Excited!
January 10, 2010 2:16 AM
Congrats on creating imovie
January 10, 2010 3:21 AM
Congratulations! And WELL DONE!
January 10, 2010 6:04 AM
what about a fedora rpm package?
January 10, 2010 7:52 AM
Very good piece of software!
I already downloaded it and now I am going to check it out.
Keep on good work.
And thanks!
January 10, 2010 8:06 AM
Congratulations, this is such a positive development for the Open Source Community. At last we can work without recourse to WINE enabled software
January 10, 2010 8:39 AM
This is the first Linux video editor I've tried that can use my m2ts source files. Plus it comes with dead-simple exporting options. Really great work!
January 10, 2010 8:51 AM
hi! nice work! Let me know if you'd like hosting for your project/website/whatever.
Yours,
Buanzo.
January 10, 2010 11:03 AM
Congratulations on reaching v1.0. I've been following your blog for months, and it was fascinating to see Openshot improve over time.
Thanks for your dedication.
January 10, 2010 11:53 AM
Very impressive. Ad maiora. I'll donate next week.
P.S. Don't worry, I have had a crash :-) , I don't know how!!! But very stable insteed.
January 10, 2010 2:58 PM
The FLOSS family needs a good Video Editor. Thanks and keep up the good work!
January 11, 2010 2:53 AM
Congratulation and thank you! Keep up the good job. Looking forward for your next release with a more features.
January 11, 2010 5:00 AM
Works well with AVCHD lite, and thanks for taking the trouble to configure the various packages. I'm using Ubuntu 8.04.
Best of luck with future development.
January 11, 2010 6:50 AM
Thank you for your hard work Jonathan and congratulations on 1.0-release.
Do you want to share your thoughts / plans about 1.1 or even 2.0? Any unofficial road map about future features?
January 11, 2010 7:18 AM
Congratulations and THANK YOU!!! This is easily one of my favorite, programs to use in Linux!
I love that I can get a preview of the themes that are available before actually applying them! Your team is amazing over there! Keep up the amazing work!
As the OP said...TAKE A BREAK! But not too long. ;-)
January 11, 2010 6:52 PM
My Dream comes True!
Great video editor, Great Awesome work!
Thanks, You are a Real Inspiration!
January 12, 2010 12:05 AM
Thanks for all the wonderful comments everyone! I have just updated our Download page to include a better DEB installer for Ubuntu 9.10, that should solve some freezing and other related issues. Also, I have added the Fedora 12+ RPM package. Lastly, I have updated our PPA instructions to use a much simpler syntax (for Karmic).
Thanks for all the suggestions and feedback!
January 12, 2010 3:43 AM
Well done, I hope you're prepared for the blizzard of bug reports and feature requests :)
I hope you don't get snowed under by demanding users!
January 12, 2010 8:26 AM
congratulations... this are good news!
8)
January 12, 2010 9:11 AM
Excelent work
January 12, 2010 10:03 AM
Thanks a lot for your efforts! Your work is - and will be much appreciated by many many people! Thank you for them! Even if they do not comment, you all did a great job. Thank you for supporting freedom!
January 12, 2010 2:50 PM
Jonathan,
Is the Fedora 12 release RPM going to replace any system files at all? Say for instance I have RPMFusion repo installed and I have ffmpeg from there... is the Openshot going to try and replace this?
I ask this question from earlier reports I read regarding The Ubuntu PPA replacing System files.
If the installation of OpenShot replaces ANY files that I get from the repos I would really like to know.
Cheers
January 13, 2010 1:43 AM
I used Kdenlive so far, but it crashes often and has problems when using lots of videos in a project.
Stumbled upon this video editor and it seems to be much more stable as far as I tried it out.
Its interface is very similar to early versions from Kdenlive, but much more beautiful.
I think, I'll love this software.
Would it be possible to support project files from other editors, at least for import (like Kdenlive XML project files), so switching to this editor is even more grateful?
January 13, 2010 3:57 AM
Awesome! Great release, i´ll release!
January 13, 2010 6:24 AM
The PPA-installation for Ubuntu 9.10 didn't work for me. MLT was missing.
I used the deb-files instead, and it worked.
It's a great product :-)
I'm looking forward to future releases.
Greetings from Denmark
January 13, 2010 3:24 PM
Impressive!!!
Great New!!!
Thank you for all the efforts to bring to the comunity this great video software.
Thank you!
January 15, 2010 10:08 AM
I think that this project will be one of the most importants for Linux.
Like you, I saw the lack of video editors for Linux, specially for gnome, and I hope that your project reach the #1 position of all the video editors (including Microsoft and MacOS editors) and that this continues evolving through time.
Thanks for give us this important and powerful tool
Greetings from Colombia!!!
January 15, 2010 9:50 PM
Wow!!! Congratulations! You Rock!!!! i will post this just tomorrow :D
If i can help you with anything related to de user experience, logos, samples or anything tell me :D I'd love to contribute to your project
January 16, 2010 7:44 AM
Hey! Great work I must say! Much better than "Windows Movie Maker" and most other Windows programmes! Even the expensive commercial ones are often not as good (crash often etc. - than I better forget about some functions and then I don't have to do the same work 2 times).
There is one thing I am REALLY missing though: A "redo" function - often I try something and ouppss... broken "go back to last save" :-/
But I must say "THANK YOU!!!"
January 16, 2010 8:16 AM
So joint us at http://openshotusers.com/forum/index.php, all the volunteers are welcome.
Some members have created already some themes, effects which have soon put in or will be included in the next version. And perhaps you can help the others if you are experimented.
Olivier
January 16, 2010 10:15 AM
Since 5 month ago I followed your development on this project, this is great to know you got 1.0!
Congratulations and thanks for this great software!
Greetings from Uruguay
January 25, 2010 7:28 AM
Openshot on openSUSE :
http://packman.links2linux.org/package/openshot/140722
Thank you for awesome apps.
February 1, 2010 10:35 PM
Thank you for working on this. Linux really does need a simple but effective video editor and photo slideshow compositor. I look forward to trying out this some more. I have it on 64 bit Ubuntu 9.04.
One thing I noticed while just playing around a little is that when you go to move the slider to scroll through the video, there is a delay before it starts working. Is there some rendering going on behind the scenes that it waits for once you first try to move the scroll line?
Great work again. I hope to play more in the coming weeks.
February 4, 2010 4:54 PM
Have you considered trying to get this project sponsored by Google Summer of Code?
February 10, 2010 2:24 AM
Hi, I used OpenShot yesterday for the first time. And it's great!!! Simple, stable, fast - doing exactly what I need to do.
Previously I used to work with kdenlive but it's lack of stability made it unusable.
OpenShot is a great job - congratulations :) You have another dedicated user.
(Ubuntu 9.10 64bit)