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It seems like just yesterday we released version 1.0 of OpenShot. However, two months have passed, and we have a brand new version just busting at the seams with excitement and anticipation. I am proud to announce the immediate availability of OpenShot 1.1!
40 different bugs and features have been addressed in this version, including some highly requested features such as Undo/Redo support! As tradition, here is a video I put together announcing 1.1. All of the footage was filmed on my Canon HF S100, and edited with OpenShot (of course).
OpenShot 1.1.0 Released! from Jonathan Thomas on Vimeo.
Here are the highlights:
- Speed, speed, and more speed improvements. Over 1300% faster rendering previews after an edit. 1000% faster launching OpenShot. Seriously though... it's way faster.
- Undo / redo (with history panel)
- Improved export screen. Only your installed formats and codecs are listed. Improved notifications after the export has finished (using libnotify). One of the most common crashes of OpenShot was selecting an export format that was not installed. So this should provide much more stability.
- Multiple copies of effects can be added to clips. A common scenario would be using 2 chroma key effects, each with a different shade of green or blue.
- Dynamic tiling of overlapping clips (Brady Bunch style). This can take an unlimited number of clips (that are all on separate tracks playing at the same time), and tile them across the screen. OpenShot does all of the math, and the user only has to click 1 menu option (in the Layout menu). Just imagine the possibilities.
- New effects have been added: Contrast, Edge Glow, Saturation, and Cartoon.
- Fade in / out menu has been added. This is the quickest and easiest way to dissolve / fade a clip (including audio).
- Edit titles with ease. Use our simple title editor or Inkscape. Just right click on a title, and select "Edit Title". Also, when you duplicate a title, it will now create a new SVG and add it to your project.
- New keyboard shortcut to cut / slice clips. Just press the "c" key, and it will cut clips at the position of the play-head (i.e. the red line).
- Improved localization and translations. Many labels, buttons, and tool-tips were missing from our translation system. Also, numbers on the export screen (such as bit rate) would not work in other languages. These have been fixed, and OpenShot works much better in other languages.
- Timeline scrolling has been improved to better support lots and lots of tracks. The left and right side of the timeline will always stay in sync now.
- H.264 support has been improved to support Debian.
- View the full details of this release
This will be the last version of OpenShot to support Ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10. Moving forward, we will only support 9.04 and greater. This is due to gtkbuilder support (or lack thereof) in those older distros.
A big thanks to all of the contributors that have helped with version 1.1: Andy Finch, Olivier Girard, Dan Dennedy, Francesco (hva), Moimael, Cody Parker, Joop Mevissen, Ptf, Benjamin Drung, and everyone who emailed, submitted bugs, submitted translations, asked questions, and supported us.
I hope everyone enjoys using OpenShot 1.1 as much as we enjoyed creating it!
March 7, 2010 10:06 PM
Awesome! I'm updating now. I'm stoked about having a great video editor for Linux (this was basically my only complaint about Linux two years ago) and am amazed with the effort that has been put into this. Keep it up!
March 8, 2010 12:25 AM
I want to say : You are Great, Active, and Fast. Thank you for the new version of OpenShot 1.1.
March 8, 2010 6:09 AM
Awesome, now send the new package to Lucid before they freeze everything! Go, go, go! :)
March 8, 2010 6:44 AM
History panel? That's too much for us humble sinners! :)
March 8, 2010 7:11 AM
Thank you! OpenShot is the first complete, stable and easy-to-use non-linear video editor for Linux!
March 8, 2010 9:11 AM
Congratulations!
I was looking forward to reveal the new version. And I'm very interested in it. Thank you all.
March 8, 2010 9:27 AM
Awesome - can't wait to try it out!!
http://digg.com/d31Kxfm
March 8, 2010 10:01 AM
Very well for you and your team.
Go forward.
Exitos
Ivanovichenco
March 8, 2010 11:06 AM
Thank you so much for this cool program! OpenShot is the best video editor for linux! CU,
March 8, 2010 11:17 AM
Great job! There is a huge set of features for easy video editing now. Now just polish it! ;)
March 8, 2010 1:15 PM
The app is getting greater with every release. Congrats and thanx! Now if only the RPMFusion folks include Openshot in our repositories...
March 8, 2010 5:17 PM
Thanck you for the new version ^^ Great work :3
March 9, 2010 12:34 AM
Fantastic software.
I am running Ubuntu lucid Lynx beta3 . Please update all your instructions with how to install in lucid also.
March 9, 2010 2:16 AM
Thank you. Congratulations. OpenShot is the best video editor for me.
March 9, 2010 2:37 AM
Thanks for your software.
P.S.: Song album link is http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/46486
March 9, 2010 8:43 AM
BTW, tried to compile MLT framework on windows and did not find any problems,or did I missed something? I just had to add stdint.h and also add pthreads for windows , and then changed args... to ... and ## args to ## __VA_ARGS__ in macroses.
So in case MLT runs on windows we could expect OpenShot for Windows soon?
March 9, 2010 10:00 AM
great news!
Thanks!
March 9, 2010 10:38 AM
@ kurdakov
As far as I can tell MLT depends on POSIX(Portable Operating System Interface [for Unix]). As far as I know there is no workable windows version of POSIX. Too bad, however the need to use windows is lessening daily. (Long live MS. As much as we hate to admit the struggle is what pushes us on.)
March 9, 2010 11:05 AM
@Jenn-and-Nick
it depends on which part of POSIX
MLT cleary depends from pthreads - but they are available under windows
http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/
as for stdint.h
it is here
http://msinttypes.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/stdint.h
the last change in variadic macro - I already mentioned.
then, it looks it should work on windows
With all this - it should go
March 9, 2010 11:38 AM
I know I've said this before to you Jon, but you really are a tremendous success story in the Open Source world. You have managed to fill a hole that sorely needed filling in the software map for Linux.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart, and please keep up the great work!
March 9, 2010 1:48 PM
@ kurdakov
That is very exciting. Best of luck. :-)
March 9, 2010 2:12 PM
For anyone interested in Windows support, here is a FAQ I put together on the topic:
https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+faq/993
Thanks,
-Jonathan
March 9, 2010 2:35 PM
@ Jonathan Thomas
Thanks for the info.
SWIG windows should work on windows ( it works for many projects ).
I'll give it a try later.
But it seems that there is high chance that OpenShot for Windows could be compiled.
March 9, 2010 8:21 PM
Fantastic! Congratulations! OpenShot is getting better so fast!
Regards!
March 9, 2010 10:17 PM
Wow! I tested version 1.0 a little bit and found it to be pretty laggy. Version 1.1 however has really improved the speed. I am greatly impressed!
Nice work! This is definitely becoming the best video editor for Linux. Simple, fast, and full of features.
Thanks for your work!
March 10, 2010 6:53 AM
bloody fast !!!
we just have to create a sample project with high quality videos
March 11, 2010 2:03 AM
Great work! Finally someone is really getting things done.
Any long term plans on extending OpenShot to include easy capture and burn to dvd features? You know, like Pinnacle Studio has? That would probably be useful for many computer illiterate users who want to edit teir home videos and burn them to dvd.
March 11, 2010 10:32 AM
Hi. When i select download openshot for Fedora Core 12 64 or 32 bits, the link target isn't openshot 1.1.0, instead is 1.0.0.
March 11, 2010 11:29 AM
Hopefully the Fedora installers will be updated soon... as they are in fact still using the 1.0 code base. I'll let everyone know once they are ready. =)
March 12, 2010 7:55 AM
@Warlon
It is planned at long term in the futures releases but for the moment we have a lot of things more essential to establish before.
But don't worry, we are thinking at that, we have not forgotten.
Olivier
March 12, 2010 11:36 AM
@Jonathan: Congrats!
I'm doing my first project with Openshot trying to replace Cinelerra.
Any chance that you open mailing list which I find less distracting & easier to follow (especially if it's subscribed to Gmane) than forums?
Sincerely,
Gour
March 17, 2010 12:17 PM
Another mention - www.techdrivein.com/2010/03/install-openshot-11-video-editor-in.html
March 19, 2010 10:55 PM
Distros should be thinking of having this installed by default because so many have use for this now to edit youtube videos etc. This will be for video editing what openoffice, gimp, inkscape, blender and LMMS is on each of theyre own area in linux and much better than any video editing alternative ive tried in windows, which says alot. Thank you so much for making this!
April 21, 2010 9:17 PM
So what does openshot have that other more established Linux video editors (e.g. LiVES, cinelerra, pitivi, kdenlive, openmovieeditor to name but a few) don't ? It seems to be just reinventing the wheel for the sake of it. It's a cool project, but is there really a need for it ?
April 24, 2010 2:02 AM
What we really need now is audio track visualize. It's hard to sync to audio when you don't see it's shape and can't see beats. A/V sync is an important thing to make stunning clips with background music.
July 28, 2010 5:35 AM
would love to give this a try and blog about it :)
September 28, 2011 11:10 AM
cool..... :)