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The 9th Annual Southern California Linux Expo (SCALE 9x) has come and gone, and was an unqualified success for OpenShot! There were 1800+ attendees at SCALE this year, and lots of interest in the OpenShot booth and my presentation titled "OpenShot: Lights, Camera, Action!".
I had a booth on the exhibit floor, and was busy answering questions and meeting attendees all weekend long. Some of my co-workers came along for the journey, and helped me work the OpenShot booth. I am so glad they came, because we had more people interested in OpenShot than any one person could handle. I guess that is a great problem to have at a conference. I had 1/2 page flyers about OpenShot on our booth table, and about 300 of them were taken by attendees.
On Saturday at 4:30 PM (California Time), I gave my presentation on OpenShot to a packed room of over 100 attendees. We ran out of chairs really quickly, and people were standing around the walls of the room, sitting on the floor, and some people were laying on the floor. The speech was streamed LIVE on the Internet, although I did not know the details surrounding this, or I would have shared them ahead of time with all of you. I was wearing a wireless microphone and there was a PA system in the room, which my voice and my laptop were hooked up to. The presentation went about 50 minutes, and we had 10 minutes of Q&A with the audience. The presentation was fun and went really well, and people seemed to enjoy it, or they were just laughing at me... although I'm pretty sure they enjoyed it. =) If you are interested in watching the video of my presentation, it will be made available soon on the SCALE 9x website.
I was really curious if anyone would approach me at the conference about a potential job, or possibly try and hire me, but quite the opposite happened. We had many attendees approaching us asking for jobs at OpenShot, as if we were a real company. So, if OpenShot ever makes any money, it looks like we'll have no trouble finding employees. =)
If there was only one thing I learned during SCALE 9x this year, it is that OpenShot is very popular and loved by a lot more people than I would ever have guessed. People were sharing stories about how there businesses use OpenShot, everything from TV studios to Radio stations using OpenShot. It was exciting to listen to, and even more fun to attend. I am definitely planning on attending SCALE next year, if my financial situation allows for it.
March 3, 2011 1:58 PM
That's awesome. I recently started using Openshot and I was so impressed by Openshot. So I actually started translating this app to my native language(Korean) in Launch-Pad. Keep up your great work, thousands of people are appreciated you and your co-workers effort :)
March 4, 2011 7:49 PM
I was there at the presentation, sitting on the floor among a couple dozen others. It really went very well.
I've tried OpenShot about two years ago, and now I'm pleasantly surprised at how much it has evolved since then! The integration with Blender is a really cool feature that on the right hands could make it extremely powerful.
It will definitely be my next editor, now that I know the Kdenlive projects can be seamlessly opened with OpenShot. Good Job!
-Pat
March 5, 2011 11:16 AM
Hey, man! Congratulations! Let's turn OpenShot the most known/used non-pro video editor. Even on Macs, hahahua :)
March 6, 2011 3:14 PM
Dont be shy Jonathan!
Of course people will be impressed, as always, when good stuff is presented. Instead, enjoy the fame and let it nourish you and your co workers.
Openshot has come a long way, and I will follow it with great interest in the future.
(hoping for the streamed version of the presentation soon)
/Johan (Sweden)
March 11, 2011 12:19 PM
Good meeting you lovely people...did the video on the DVD+R work for you? The Fedora people are going to be at SXSW this weekend, and they are evangelizing for F/OSS.
http://mairin.wordpress.com/2011/03/11/flyers-about-free-open-source-software-for-sxsw-creatives/
March 22, 2011 6:27 AM
Does anyone knows when the video of the presentation will be available?
March 22, 2011 10:05 AM
@firewalker,
I'm not sure when the video will be available. I assumed it would already be there by now, but I know they have over 100 videos to edit and publish... so I guess that takes a while. =) Thanks!
March 23, 2011 1:31 PM
I was looking for a simple Linux video editor. Google send me to your site. That was a real surprise. Your tool is simple, good looking, stable and functional. I read a little about scene behind OpenShost editor and your mission impressed me. Anyway just to say that OpenShot 1.3 works on FC14 x86_64 (much better than previuos release) and now I will try to install blender to try animations ...
Thank you and keep up the good work.
Cheers!
March 31, 2011 3:13 PM
Hei. Scale look't awesome, such a same I could have the possibility to be there. I was hoping to see the video soon, any news about when it's coming?
April 8, 2011 2:52 AM
Hi!
The video is available.
Cheers
April 8, 2011 5:01 AM
I have found Openshot to be more stable than KDenlive, I have updated to the 1.3 version I am running Pardus 2011 X64 at the moment triple boot with Ubuntu Maverick and Windows 7.the integration with Blender is a real must have,
Robredz
May 6, 2011 10:23 AM
Just discovered OpenShot, think it is now my favourite Ubuntu app - Great job. Chris Kenyon
June 10, 2011 5:03 PM
I just tried OpenShot for the first time last night, and I am hella impressed (and even moreso with the story behind it!). I've been looking for such an editor off and on for my Ubuntu box, and when I read a review of this software online, and then saw the site - I thought I would try it. 15 minutes later, I had a simple video with transition effect and title created - and that includes the time I took to install the package. I want to donate to your efforts; how can I do that? Let me know via my website!
June 13, 2011 1:09 AM
Wow, unbelievable. I just give openshot a chance and it really is a good and simple way to edit videos. Thank you!
July 1, 2011 8:26 AM
Finally a full featured video editor for Linux! Thank you so much.
Scott
September 4, 2011 3:20 PM
There's been some mention of a cross compiled Windows version. Is this being actively worked on, or is wishful thinking?