Comments on: OpenShot 1.0 Stable Released; Best Linux Video Editor

By: Connor

Connor — Mon, 31 May 2010 00:01:00 +0000

“if you dont like whats available on linux simple learn to code and make your own project/program”

Yeah, cos that is exactly what Linux needs, another unstable video editor that takes years to reach version 1.

As for learning code, why would I stop at a video editor? Why not write my own Unix variant operating system that runs exactly as I want to? Hell I could even learn electronics and create my own hardware whilst I am at it too, and have that run my own OS!

Now stfu as I need to read this book on becoming a barber, my hair needs cutting.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:51:00 +0000

Well, audio editing is absolut crap on OpenShot. The only “easy” video editor that has proper audio support for Linux is kdenlive.

By: daas88

daas88 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:25:00 +0000

That one, in my opinion, is the best video editor available for linux. I’d like to have it in a gtk interface u_u

By: daas88

daas88 — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 23:24:00 +0000

It worked for me, but after crashing the first time i opened it. I had no problems after that.

By: Bwakathaboom

Bwakathaboom — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 18:40:00 +0000

Have you guys tried KDEnlive? It seems to be moving more in the direction of Premiere than iMovie and is getting good press, though it hasn’t hit 1.0 release yet.

By: Tommy Brunn

Tommy Brunn — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:15:00 +0000

My eyes! My eyes! Openshot is definitely more feature rich than PiTiVi, but the user interface is the tackiest thing I have ever seen. It most definitely has a severe case of what I like to call “progsign” – design by programmers. Why is that horrible, horrible theme the default when both the “simple” and “tango” themes both look pretty good?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 01:08:00 +0000

dude these dev dont work for you there not your slaves. its a open source project and they do this as a hobby and for the love of open source, if you dont like whats available on linux simple learn to code and make your own project/program other than that stfu and stop bitching from the side lines.

on that note openshot is pretty cool though i think pitivi has more promise once its been develop further. openshot has a problem with keeping audio and video in sync but other than that its great.

By: vivalostioz

vivalostioz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:38:00 +0000

Everything but stable.

By: vivalostioz

vivalostioz — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:35:00 +0000

It crashes all the time for me ! Damn it could be so nice…Also doesn’t like that you can’t export your video in custom resolution :-/

By: nadeem

nadeem — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:01:00 +0000

thats good keep the good work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:41:00 +0000

if you’re a professional editor, then interest yourself in professional software then that’s available – googling about shows a few linux-compatible programs used by large studios that I don’t want to know how much do they cost.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:41:00 +0000

Oh yeah, and try replicating the efforts of a multi-million software projects with a volunteer workforce while you’re at it. If you want to be serious, then *help* – or donate – to an existing project, probably openshot, and it’ll get better.

By: Bend3r

Bend3r — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:36:00 +0000

Nice piece of software, I tried it yesterday creating a video by appending three videos (wmv, flv and mp4) and it was a nice surprise it can handle so many formats. I will still use avidemux to rip TV recordings, but OpenShot will be useful too.

By: mths

mths — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:53:00 +0000

That point is actually to the point. The point is that they waste their time and do better to target another group together with other developers. Can this be said?

Another point is that linux / foss community can handle very little critique and has very little of its own. Everything is great and awesome and we’re going to beat some kind of 7-thing. Anyone who rightfully challenges that pretence (‘dare to crash it’ – I did) gets told to start his own project.

However I sympathise with the OpenShot developers, it’s 1.0-alpha and lacking basic features (such as undo?).

By: mths

mths — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:40:00 +0000

I’m afraid I’m both disappointed. I cut sliced, but there is no way to glue them together again? I add an effect but I cannot set its duration? I export the video and? tatada! It crashed. So.. back to Pitivi movie editor.

By: Yfrwlf

Yfrwlf — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:17:00 +0000

I wonder if it would be possible to add on advanced feature or an entire “advanced mode” so it could do some more advanced “professional” things, while still trying to be easy to use of course. I guess that’s like asking why Gimp can’t have a “Simple Mode”. Perhaps it’s just all too difficult without making a completely new program.

By: Chris Lees

Chris Lees — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:12:00 +0000

If it now works with videos of any length, like all the other video editors out there, then I’ll be quite happy. However I suspect this hasn’t been added.

By: d0od

d0od — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:58:00 +0000

Have you even tried OpenShot?The viewer is the big box to the right with the play controls on.

The time line is the, well, timeline at the bottom – you can’t miss it.

Your clip bin is the big white space to the left. Importing is as simple as drag and dropping. You can then simply drag and drop the clips on to the timeline and arrange/edit.. and then to export try the file > export video option.

By: d0od

d0od — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:53:00 +0000

Autodesk also provide media applications – take a look @ http://usa.autodesk.com/industries/media-entertainment

But you miss the point about OpenShot – it’s aim was to create a user-friendly non-linear editor and it has. It’s shoulders above the “rest” of the projects out there, including the ones actually FUNDED to make their applications…

By: mike

mike — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:47:00 +0000

Even for the couple of minutes it worked before freezing up I just don’t understand these desktop-user oriented video editors. Where’s my clip bin? Where’s my timeline? Where’s my viewer? Honestly, Final Cut is more intuitive than any of these “user friendly” apps for Linux like OpenShot, Pitivi, Kdenlive, etc…

I’ve tried all of them and have yet even figured out how to import clips, cut them together and then export.