OpenShot Video Editor Gets New Icons & Preference Window

By , Published October 20, 2009

The best video editor for Linux ‘OpenShot’ has finally gotten itself some new icons! Yes it is a slow news day…

These new ‘tango’ style icons bring a much needed visual refresh to the (at times) slightly odd looking default set of "glassy" icons.

 
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The new tango Theme
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The default €œGlassy€ theme

Enabling The New Theme
You need to install a new version of OpenShot to install this theme.

Installing The Latest OpenShot

A lot of people (including myself) got burned by the OpenShot PPA released a while ago. It was something of a PR disaster as I read far too many comments in the wake of it from people proclaiming that this was the first and last time they were going to touch OpenShot. A seriously bad move if you’re one of them as OpenShot is the new standard for Video Editors on Linux.

.Deb
Sadly the PPA is still being fixed, so in the mean time for error free installation you just need to whack some .debs and install it that way. Hurrah!

Latest .deb’s @ http://www.openshotvideo.com/2008/04/download.html

Bzr
If you’re a curious old soul and want to stay bang-up-to-date with OpenShot’s development you can install it (and update it very very regularly) from its bzr using

  • bzr branch lp:openshot

PPA
For future reference the OpenShot PPA is: https://launchpad.net/~openshot.developers/+archive/ppa

It is currently only available for Jaunty and Karmic users.

You can also enable it via the latest UbuntuTweak.

NOTE:
Currently installing from the PPA will REMOVE video playback in ALL movie players.
Please only install from the DEB linked above.
Enable The Theme

Open OpenShot’s shiny new preferences window via Edit > Preferences and simply choose a theme from the drop down box. Click okay.

Done!

I’ll be having a go at getting some other themes to work with it – ideally Humanity. I’ll keep you posted!

Homepage: http://www.openshotvideo.com/
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/openshot
© omgubuntu.co.uk 2009. | Ubuntu News, Tips, Apps and more.
Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Jimbo

    Today is the 5th anniversary of the first Ubuntu release and you are telling me its a slow news day? ;-) Where is your multipage look-back at the history of Ubuntu so far? ;-)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Am i *that* obvious?! Haha.

      It’s coming along.. and should be done within the hour. Worse thing is it’s been sat half finished in my drafts for well over a month; i totally forgot! Eek!

  • Dex

    sorry but cinelerra is the best linux video editor :D:D open shot may only be the best home video editor :D:D

    • LaPeGa

      But cinelerra is almost impossible to use… i had follow a lot of guides but never could edit a simple video

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        I cannot agree more.

        I did Media Production (moving image) at College and was “trained” in Adobe Premier Pro, Final Cut and used Sony Vegas and iMovie when at home and i cannot for the life of me get Cinelerra to produce anything as half as good as any of those Windows/OS X apps can…

        …until i met OpenShot.

        • Dex

          well i was always clumsy with all these apps but i can use cinelerra… if you still want to learn it there are a few new tutorials on youtube made by metalx1000 :D:D

  • Srg

    Nice!! btw, wich gtk theme are you using? looks pretty nice

  • LaPeGa

    Wow!!! my welcome to the new icons! the old look very kde-ish (OpenShot is gtk)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      Exactly what i’ve always thought!

  • http://seifsallam.co.cc/ Seif Sallam

    i’m one of the people who focus on the interface, so if the interface sucks i won’t give the application any chance, but after this simple remake i can start using it

  • rico

    Best is a bit exagerated… Yes it’s going nicely and will probably become a quite good video editor, but it isn’t really ready yet for anything more than cut&trim.
    Cinelerra is might be very good, but as many users say.. it’s learning curve looks quite step.
    I think the best option right now for a video editor is kdenlive, it’s easy, has loads of transitions and effects, and it’s interface is quite customisable. I don’t recomend any version before 0.7.6 though for stability reasons.
    But if you are comparing GTK vs QT.. then you’re right.. openshot is the best gtk nle out there.. as there …are no others (well..there’s pitivi, if you don’t want transitions.. or effetcs.. or.. anything but cuting your clips..)

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      I’d seriously stick to saying it’s the best. It has the easiest Chroma Key i’ve ever used on any system. Unlike kdenline it also doesn’t crash when i apply effects or transitions to clips, but that may be system specific.

      I’m currently doing writing a feature on video editing on linux for a short film makers site and OpenShot sticks it’s head out high and dry above the rest. (kdenlive comes in close, cinlerra may have some useful features tucked away somewhere under it’s dense, dense, dense UI)

      • rico

        “it also doesn’t crash when i apply effects or transitions to clips”

        I agree.. that’s why i said i don’t recomment any version under 0.7.6. Did you try it? I did 2-3h editing without a single crash .. compared to the previous 5-10min edit crash, save, crash, segfault, crash, save, save , crash ;-). it’s a whole new world.
        Il have another look at openshot anyway to see the progres.
        I just tried cinelerra 4.1, I opened it , got a big head ache.. an closed it back hoping lumiera is coming soon to bring some human interface to it.

  • http://gnuski.blogspot.com/ lefty.crupps

    Those Tango icons look a lot like KDE4 icons, don’t they? Compare the Tango icons in a standard Firefox installation, vs the KDE4 theme at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7574 Not that it matters much.

    I am a huge fan of KDEnlive; what makes OpenShot the ‘best video editor’ for Linux?

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      it’s GTK+ :p

      Joking aside, it’s powerful, user-friendly and packs in some rapid development over a short time frame. It’s extensible (if people want/need to add/write plugins). It has a ton of effects (including an awesome Chroma key) a ton of transitions and a few audio effects. it has a simple “export” mode… it is openshot! I’ll try Kdenlive again at some point but it’s nice to finally have a non-crashy video editor in linux.

      Any user coming off of iMovie, Adobe Premier etc will orient themselves with OpenShot in seconds. There’s not steep learning curve as the UI is just logicial.

  • http://www.jesusda.com/ jEsuSdA 8)

    Hello!

    My name is jEsuSdA, I’m the contributor who made the Openshot Tango Theme.

    I wish to say you that there are more Tango graphics for OpenShot I made. Not all them where included on the main project, then if you like to have Tango icons for the VIDEO EFFECTS, you could download the original package from my web and use them. ;)

    I hope you like it!

    Links:
    http://www.jesusda.com/blog/index.php?id=381
    http://www.jesusda.com/blogpics/openshot-tango-pasodoble-effects.png