Openshot Video Editor Gets HUGE Update – 30 New Effects, Preview Window, Green Screen, PPA…

By , Published September 30, 2009

OpenShot – one of the best video editor available for Linux – finally has a PPA! That’s news enough in-itself as it means pain free installation but the even better news is it now comes complete with effects!

New Effects

30 awesome video effects are now included – including Chroma Key (green screen) allowing you to create all sorts of awesome videos. These are in addition to the 15+ transitions included!

The new effects include: –

  • Black and White
  • Blur
  • Glow
  • Mirror
  • Old Grain
  • Pixelate
  • Water
  • Sepia

3 new audio effects make it into the latest release, too: –

  • Phaser
  • Pitch
  • Echo

And in the spirit of OpenShot, it’s as easy as dragging and dropping an effect on a clip.

PPA

You can install PPA in Jaunty and Karmic using the following official PPA: –

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
GPG Key: sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys B9BA26FA

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers
The PPA also contains the latest versions of all necessary dependencies that OpenShot requires – such as FFmpeg, MLT, Frei0r, and x264 so no worries about not being able to run it!

WARNING: Currently installing OpenShot via PPA will break video playback. You are advised to use the .deb’s from the official site or follow the advice here.

Installation

Once you’ve added the PPa you can install it via Add/Remove or Software Centre or via the terminal using: –

  • sudo apt-get install openshot

Ibex or Hardy users can grab pre-made .deb’s @ http://www.openshotvideo.com/download.html

Thoughts

So far testing the new version of OpenShot in Karmic I’ve found it to freeze up a lot so karmic users be warned. Other wise it’s the same awesome quality I’ve come to expect from the OpenShot team who, let’s face it, have created the de facto video editor for Linux. OpenShot is to Linux what iMovie is to OS X.

“OpenShot Is The De-Facto Video Editor For Linux.”

PiTiVi is another popular video editor that has a lot of potential but as OpenShot point out in their announcement, despite PiTiVi having full time paid developers it’s progress is incredibly slow. It lacks most of the important user-end features that OpenShot has – effects, titles, transitions…

Be sure to check out the following official demo video!


OpenShot Video Gets Effects!!! from Jonathan Thomas on Vimeo.

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Mohan

    Wow that’s pretty cool. I have no need for it but I am more than sure there are many who do. Canonical should really endorse this as video editing software on Karmic.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Shouldn’t they just!

      • Mohan

        yeah, I think so they should.

  • Thomas

    In karmic the easiest way to add this ppa to your sources list is using this command:

    sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers

    It’ll automatically add the GPG Key.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      ooh yes! Thanks i’ll include that.

      • Thomas

        You don’t need to add the GPG key after, so you can remove the
        GPG Key: sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys B9BA26FA
        ;)

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          but those using the jaunty PPA will, hence my leaving it up.

    • dRewsus

      Can you do this if the repo ISN’T a ppa?
      like, for:
      deb http://www.remastersys.klikit-linux.com/repository remastersys/
      or:
      deb http://le-web.org/repository stable main
      ??
      That would be very helpful to me!

  • http://danyr.mp/ Daniel Rodrigues

    OMG! OpenShot is getting awesome! OMG!
    Keep up the good work, d0od! lol

  • Anonymous

    w00t! Can’t wait to try this out! Finally a good video editor for Linux.

    btw have you looked at Jokosher (the awesome audio editor?)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Indeed i have! I -love- Jokosher. It follows the same “keep it usable” format as openshot which is really great. I’ve written about it twice before… but a new updated post is a must – thanks for the reminder!

  • Mark

    Can’t get it to import .avi files from my Flip Video camcorder. Its help feature links to a nonexistent help file… anybody know how to import a Flip camcorder file? It’s a 30 fps XVID MPEG-4, 640 x 480 with 44.1KHz mono ADPCM audio, in an .avi container.

    Any ideas?

    • Maki

      Do you try do it with Arista Transcoder?

  • bob dobbs

    And installing ti will mess up your avcodecs,etc which you’ll have to re-install when you purge it.:)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      It’s worked fine for me on Karmic and so far very few complaints from anyone else i know who’s using it.

  • http://openid.markdarb.com/ Mark William Darbyshire

    If this had been out a few days ago I would have used it for a project I’m currently working on. Instead I’ve been using Cinelerra, which is certainly getting the job done and the advanced features are great but the way reFrameRT works is rather convoluted (the clips don’t resize on the timeline, so I have to turn the effect off while editing then back on to preview/render).

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Cinelerra and i do not mix. I did media production at college so i’m used to premier pro and final cut and i think that’s where all my issues with cinelerra come from – cos i cannot STAND using it. So i’m really thankful that a non-linear editor for linux is finally around that is more akin to the “big boys” as it’ll make it far easier for people to make a transition from “other” apps and OSes to Linux.

  • http://openid.markdarb.com/ Mark William Darbyshire

    Doesn’t want to install from PPA without forcing kdenlive and various other video-related packages to uninstall. Might give it a miss for now. :(

  • AW

    I always wondered why nobody bothered to make a downloadable file with a special extension that would essentially add the PPA and start the install process for a .deb package.

  • Anonymous

    Does it use gstreamer?

  • Name

    it’s strange that installing openshot from its PPA requires uninstalling ffmpeg libavdevice52 libavfilter0 winff.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      i noticed this actually.

      If you don’t want to lose the codecs install from the .debs.

  • Anonymous

    Wonderful! Added the PPA, will give it a try.

  • Ben

    Looks interesting. But installing Openshot removed vlc player. When I uninstalled openshot and reinstalled vlc, it now plays the sounds but no video so a assume there is something wrong with the PPA openshot packages? If not then a warning that it will break vlc is important.

    Running Jaunty 64bit

  • Ninja

    I like OpenShot but installing it from the PPA badly messed up my codecs, so that VLC and Totem would not open video files of any kind. It took me a while and some help to figure things out; I finally had to uninstall OpenShot and downgrade various packages.
    If anyone is having the same problem, I am linking the thread in which a kindly stranger helped me out. It is in Italian, but I suppose you can figure things out. If not, feel free to contact me.
    I hope the developing of Open Shot goes fast and quickly gets to a stable release!

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I’ll update the post warning of this. A simple fix is simply to use the .deb’s from the PPA and not the PPA itself (for the time being).

      If anyoen else has issues with this – simply remove vlc (if it hasn’t already been removed! eek) and then reinstall ffmpeg.

      • Ben

        Yeah. I think you better put a warning. If you are on Jaunty then it can be a nasty surprise to see that vlc suddenly doesn’t work.

        But thanks for the tip. removing the PPA and downgrading ffmpeg to the previous version fixed vlc.

        Can you confirm that just installing the openshot deb will not mess with the other packages? I’m quite new to linux.

        Ben

        • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

          From comments of the official site about this the owner recommends uses the debs. Unlike automatically updating, the .debs will warn you if anything needs to be removed – if you see vlc being selected from removal, just hit cancel.

  • http://twitter.com/ewzzy Andrew Rayburn

    Beware Openshot as it is can totally break video playback.
    http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1281367&highlight=xvid

  • http://www.openshotvideo.com/ Jonathan Thomas

    We are working on a solution to the PPA breaking video players. FFmpeg is quite complicated… and many common video players (such as VLC) are un-installed after installing OpenShot… since they depend on a different version of ffmpeg. Hopefully we’ll have a fix soon. Stay tuned… =)

  • http://www.onoametal.wordpress.com/ onoametal

    As you said, I broke video playback installing this software… Now I can’t play video files anymore… Suggestions?

  • Anonymous

    Well, I’m game for a little hard work for a lot of benefit, but OpenShot has just broken my new install of Ubuntu 9.10 … The problems appear to be known, but not fixed. I recommend you stay far away from this issue, as it takes down Mplayer, Totem and VLC by blowing up gstreamer’s ffmeg files.See https://bugs.launchpad.net/openshot/+bug/442761 for more info. Now I have the nasty job of uninstalling/reinstalling a bunch of apps and seeing if I can rebuild things.

    Oh, and now I found that it removed XvidCap from my system … without even asking or notifying me.
    It would nice if it runs, it just doesn’t run very often. …. Maybe Piviti deserves another look ;(

  • Kai

    openshot’s backend is not gstreamer and compared to pitivi it ist very bad. pitivi generates “a featurefull playlist” which will be encoded with gstreamer, but openshot generates pngs which will be encoded with ffmpeg and unstructured encoders. better push pitivi to develope faster, it has more abilities than openshot and its backend-design is not so deprecated

    • Cindy

      Kai, you could not be more incorrect. OpenShot uses the latest and greatest FFmpeg and MLT libraries, has way more features than PiTiVi (effects, transitions, key-frames, alpha-masks, title editor), does not encode it’s frames to PNG, and is not based on any deprecated code. FFmpeg is a very active project, powers most video editors in Linux, and even powers many features used by gstreamer. While I agree that PiTiVi needs to speed up it’s development, please do some research before proclaiming a project deprecated.

  • Anonymous

    Openshot is great. For those who haven’t already noted it, installing openshot on Ubuntu (perhaps other distributions too, not sure) will mess with many apps that need a default install of ffmpeg. VLC and Totem, for instance, both bomb out with openshot installed. Basically they can’t play just about any kind of media. Be warned.
    I understand, from a note on the developers website, that he is aware of the issue and is working on it.

    Jonathan
    http://www.jonathanevatt.com