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I am proud to announce the release of OpenShot 1.3.0! Our team has spent the last 5 months perfecting this version, and I am so proud of what we have achieved! Our goal is to be the very best open-source video editor. This release brings us closer to that goal.
As tradition, I have created an original video to announce this release. Enjoy!
Release Highlights:
- Improved stability, performance, and usability
- New user interface theme (titled 'Fresh')
- Stock icons support
- Add multiple clips to the timeline in one step (including transitions or fades)
- More timeline animations & smoother play-head motion
- Many new exciting 3D animations (including Snow, Lens Flare, Particle Effects, Animated World Maps)
- Files, transitions, and effects filtering (toggle buttons and search bar)
- Improved video rotation (including 1 click rotation)
- Automatic detection of image sequences
- Smoother scaling (panning, zooming, and rotation)
- Transition snapping and improved direction detection
- Video upload to YouTube and Vimeo
- Full list of bug fixes and improvements
If you use Ubuntu 9.10 (or newer) as your operating system, then the easiest way to install OpenShot is with our PPA. Once you have installed our PPA, either install OpenShot or run your Update Manager to get the newest version.
Tips:
- The 3D animation now requires Blender 2.56 (or greater)
- The new theme, Fresh, is now the default theme. However, if you are upgrading, you will need to change the theme in the preferences (if desired), because it will continue to use your previous theme.
- The frei0r-plugins package is not required to use OpenShot, but if you install it, it will add many additional effects. This package should be available in your favorite package manager or software center.
- Many distros do not include all video and audio codecs. If you want to install them all, you need to install the libavformat-extra-52 package (or equivalent). This package should be available in your favorite package manager or software center.
Learn More:
Want to learn more about OpenShot? Want to become an expert user? Want to become the next great developer / contributor? Check out our help manual, which contains 60+ pages of great content, updated screenshots, step by step instructions, and translations in many different languages:
- Help Manual (Dutch)
- Help Manual (English)
- Help Manual (French)
- Help Manual (Greek)
- Help Manual (Spanish)
- More languages coming soon...
Spread the Word:
Please help us spread the word about OpenShot 1.3.0. If you do write an article or blog entry, please share the address in our comments section for everyone to enjoy. Also, if you are using a package manager that supports reviews or ratings (such as the Ubuntu 11.04 software center, or the Mint package manager), please give us some love!
Thank You:
As always, this release stands on the shoulders of so many great projects, such as Python, MLT, Blender, Inkscape, and all of the other libraries we depend on. So, a big "Thank You" to all these projects. And also, I want to thank all of the amazing contributors that help me on a daily basis. This release would not have happened without you and your support!
Enjoy:
I hope everyone enjoys using OpenShot 1.3.0, and please don't forget to mention OpenShot when you post your videos on YouTube, Vimeo, and other video sharing sites. Also, if you create a really great video, please share it with me, so I can post it here on this blog for everyone to enjoy. In closing, here is a video made by @johhjnsn with OpenShot, about a robot, which utilizes great art, vision, music, and truly showcases the magic that a video editor can create:
February 14, 2011 4:22 AM
Amazing. :-)
Happy Valentine's Day everybody.
February 14, 2011 5:08 AM
Hi guys, I love OpenShot and really appreciate the hard work you put into it. Here's my post announcing the release of 1.3.0 http://chedean.com/2011/02/14/openshot-1-3-0-video-editor-released/. I hope many more people also help spread the word.
February 14, 2011 5:21 AM
astonishing, awesome, what else !
JeanJean-France
February 14, 2011 5:57 AM
Yes! It's here! What about be the best free video editor available?? Check this
February 14, 2011 7:30 AM
Go OpenShot GO!!!
February 14, 2011 12:20 PM
Congratulations to everyone involved and thanks for your hard work! 1.3 is a fantastic release and I'm really looking forward to using it!
February 14, 2011 12:23 PM
This let me speachless...
A huge thank you: we support your great job. Many thanks!
February 14, 2011 12:26 PM
The integration with KDE SC 4.6 is amazingly perfect: o my!
February 14, 2011 2:36 PM
Nice update!
I, too, have published an article about OpenShot 1.3 @ http://iloveubuntu.net/openshot-13-released-new-ui-themestability-improvement-new-animations-and-effects
February 14, 2011 7:46 PM
Dag Nabbit!! I just finished editing a video and I check the site to find an update =/
Ah well, I'm very excited for my next one now ^_^
Check it out here, it's a comedic recital of Romeo's monologue from the balcony scene of R&J
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwtHS3NWug
February 14, 2011 9:15 PM
love this... awesome
February 15, 2011 5:09 AM
a great piece of code!
But please add a function (add subtitles from files like txt, sub, ssa etc)
February 15, 2011 7:20 AM
I can't see the announce video. It asks me to install a HTML video compliant browser (I have one, FF4) or to install flash (I won't ; worse, it doesn't exist for my OS/browser, I don't know).
Even more strange is the fact that as HTML compliant browser, you link to safari, as not everyone can install it (it only exists on windows and mac).
February 15, 2011 2:34 PM
Fantastic! I'm using version 1.3.0 for some time already and it's great. Thanks!
Ironic: I see an ad from AVS Video Editor which is Windows-only, but what is worse: it is listed on the Hall of Shame on the ffmpeg site because of violation of the GPL. See http://www.ffmpeg.org/shame.html
February 15, 2011 2:39 PM
Thanks for the great comments and nice words everyone!
@Anonymous, that is very ironic. I need to block that from appearing in the Google Ads.
February 16, 2011 1:20 PM
I tried many versions of this program in the past, it wasn't very pleasant - until now. 1.3 is definitely the right thing! Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your time to create such a wonderful and useful piece of software.
Thanks,
Christian (http//www.christian-ahmer.de)
February 17, 2011 7:32 AM
Good work
The best video editor for linux
Thanks
February 17, 2011 9:09 AM
OpenShot is amazing.I wrote a post in my blog to spread OpenShot http://clicknscroll.blogspot.com/2011/02/openshotbest-open-source-video-editor.html
Thank you
Arun Kumar
February 17, 2011 9:58 AM
It's really amazing! So easy to use, and so powerfull! Thanks a lot, really.
If you don't mind, I'll suggest a couple of things you probably have yet thought into, for the "to do" list, if possible.
For the very usefull and powerfull clip/distribution options, would be very comfortable to have a graphic way of doing, something like a couple of adjustable squares to show from where to where to go... I know, it's not such a simple thing to do, and probably there are much more important things to use time by now... By the way, the smooth option with the mlt 0.6.2 works absolutely fine!
The other question would be the use of multi-core processors. At least for me, the conversions seems to use no more than two pprocessors at the same time (mostly one). Probably it depends not on your work, but on the programs used for encoding, anyway.
So, one again, ¡thank's! OpenShot is not a must, is a need!
February 18, 2011 4:03 PM
WoW., ya tan rapido.... voy a probarlo.. yaaaaaa
WoW... that quicly, i probed noooowwww!!!..
February 25, 2011 10:58 PM
Great update. I love the improvement to scrubbing through the timeline. I'm getting great cuts really fast.
Thanks for all your hard work.
February 27, 2011 8:37 AM
Get Blender2.56 is not that's easy : that's a Beta version, no automatic PPA.
So I provide some helpful links for newbies:
* File: http://www.blender.org/download/get-256-beta/
* Installation : http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Manual/Introduction/Installing_Blender
February 27, 2011 1:25 PM
For the 3D earth animation and Blender 2.56.
1. Download Blender´s archive (32bits or 64bits depending of your PC) into a know folder
** 32bits: http://www.blender.org/dl/http://download.blender.org/release//Blender2.56abeta/blender-2.56a-beta-linux-glibc27-i686.tar.bz2
** 64bits: http://www.blender.org/dl/http://download.blender.org/release//Blender2.56abeta/blender-2.56a-beta-linux-glibc27-x86_64.tar.bz2
2. Unzip it in the same folder by doubleclic (or tar -xjf /folder/your_archive_name ?)
3. Rename the fruit-folder into ¨blender-2.56¨
4. Move it: sudo mv /folder/blender-2.56 /usr/share/
5. In Openshot > Edit > Preferences > Blender Executable: /usr/share/blender-2.56/blender
March 15, 2011 4:06 PM
Hi Thomas,
I have a sugestion: is it possible to think about compiling the OpenShot source to run on Haiku? I know Haiku isn't a real OS yet, but just a alpha release. But i think that Haiku can be a great alternative to Linux, considering that it can be an opensource multimedia Operating System.
That's it.
Regards,
Paulo
Brazil
March 16, 2011 9:08 AM
Really a great editor!
I thing that now it is number 1 among linux video editor.
I started using version 1.2.2.
Now version 1.3.0 is really usable.
It is the perfect companion of my Zi8 HD Cam.
I use Final Cut on a Mac too, but for "normal" every day purpose I must say that now 1.3.0 is almost perfect (no more transitions problem at all), and now I use Final Cut rarely.... (and I like it more....)!!!
Now only a bit more of HD preview optimization.....
June 5, 2011 11:57 PM
Thanks for your work / is a very good and easy to use video editor im using ubuntu 10.10 and it work great / THANKS BECAUSE IT'S A OPEN SOUCRE SOFTWARE / THANKS
June 19, 2011 11:49 PM
hi Jonathan, i just created my 1st video and i used the awesome OpenShot. it worked really well i'm happy with my 1st video ever!
my video link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RILSCbdJac
thanks again,