Latest OpenShot Release Gains Super Timeline Enhancements

By , Published November 24, 2009

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Not a day goes by without my love of OpenShot growing just that little bit deeper €“ and today is no exception as the latest version, deep breath, 0.9.54 was released today giving OpenShot yet more clout to the title of  €œmost accomplished user-friendly video editor available on Linux€.

Try writing that on a badge!


What's New?

Snap to seeker

The snapping tool has been empowered with an awesome €œsnap to play-head€ function. Simply put this allows you to drag clips and have them €œsnap€ to the red line that shows you what part of the video you are currently at. This is so incredibly helpful i may just burst.

Jonathan Thomas, creator of OpenShot, describes this in much better terms than I: -

Once you get the play-head into the perfect position, simply drag a clip close to the red line, and it will snap. Now you can line up clips across different tracks with awesome precision!

Auto-Extending Timeline

Dragging or resizing a clip past the end of the timeline will now auto-extend the timeline.

Zoom-tastic!

Scrollbars are now adjusted for when scrolling, keeping your clips in view. CTRL+Scroll Wheel now invokes zooming, too.

Scrolling Scrollbars

Scrollbars now €œauto scroll€ along when previewing or playing a track and keep the €œplay head€ centred with it.

Other tidbits

For a few other changes and improvements check out the full announcement @ http://www.openshotvideo.com/2009/11/snapping-zooming-and-timeline.html

Install/Download

.deb

As always you can grab the latest release in handy .deb form from the official site @ http://www.openshotvideo.com/ €“ click the download tab and choose your OS.

PPA

Bleeding Edge PPA: https://launchpad.net/~jonoomph/+archive/openshot-edge

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • John Bryden

    I don’t know why you keep going on about this rubbish software, the last time I used the ppa I had to re-install my OS! Try kdenlive.
    geordie

    • Anonymous

      Well, the last time you tried it the PPA was broken. No need to install the OS though, that was unnecessary!

      But the PPA works now, I assure you. I personally use it.

    • daas88

      it’s easier to just repair the packages with synaptic, that’s what i did. But I won’t ever add that ppa again, that’s for sure.

  • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

    I’d (perhaps) agree if it had been “most accomplished user-friendly video editor available on Gnome”, but Linux, come on. Just as John: Try Kdenlive. It’s nice to see Openshot evolving but these new features are something kdenlive has had for ages.

    • Anonymous

      I’ve tried Kdenlive, and for me, it’s a crash-prone, buggy mess. Both OpenShot and PiTiVi are far more stable.

      • http://orkutcidio.deliriocoletivo.org Peterson Espaçoporto

        Far more? OpenShot wouldn’t launch due to python problems! ahAEhAEhAEhea
        Perhaps all of them have to get better, but Kdenlive is older and has more features.

    • Anonymous

      Gave it a try once, was typical bad KDE UI design. Complicated for no reason :(

  • Andy

    The PPA you mention in the article is not maintained anymore – the new PPA is described here:

    http://www.openshotvideo.com/2009/11/openshot-ppa-new-experimental-ppa.html

    This one uses the default packages from the Ubuntu repositories, rather than custom versions.

  • David

    I really had a bad time last time I tried this software, but since you seem to really really like it I’ll give it another try and see if this time it can last at least 5 seconds without crashing. To be fair it actually can last way more than that without crashing…that is until I actually try to use it…if I open it and do nothing it doesn’t crash.

  • Jeff Wooliscroft

    It all looks *very* good … but bear in mind that the problems you mentioned in a previous post about OpenShot destroying video capabilities still lurks around to catch out the unwary.

    I installed OpenShot from Ubuntu Tweak, knowing it enables third-party PPAs and assuming, therefore, that it would install the “safe” version of OpenShot. Safe it was not. Not only has it made it impossible for me to view *any* videos with *any* standard media player, OpenShot can’t play videos either.

    I’ve tried solving the problem but am now trying to get up the motivation to reinstall everything on my machine from OS upwards. Never a lot of fun.

    I still think OpenShot has great potential and I’ll undoubtedly try it again in the future … but not until this particular problem is well and truly in the past.

  • Anonymous

    Just tried it out again after last time when it destroyed my computer. I installed it using the debs from the site. On first start, it froze before I could click anything. xkill’d it, then started it again. This time it allowed me to import some videos before freezing again. xkill’d it, started it again. Imported one video and fast-forwarded to about halfway, then it froze when I tried to play it.

    Pitivi may not be as feature-rich, but it’s a damn sight more stable. I’d rather have a video editor that can do the basic stuff than a video editor that promises to be better which I can’t do anything with.