OpenShot survey results show users want dvd creation feature; 88% use ubuntu

By , Published May 9, 2010

The results of the OpenShot survey that was conducted over the last few weeks has ended and the results have been made available on OpenShot developer Cenwen's blog [French].

They show many interesting things, a brief breakdown of which are: -

  • 88% of OpenShot respondents use Ubuntu
  • The top 3 requested features were DVD creation, video conversion & additional video effects.
  • The majority of users install OpenShot fom the Software Centre and/or the OpenShot PPA.

My thoughts

The 'requested feature' results are surprising €“ I was expecting YouTube/Facebook/etc uploading to rank higher than it did, likewise with colour correction. Both are tools that enhance the actual job of editing and sharing videos.

The top two requested features are, to my mind, jobs better left to dedicated applications rather than a video editor: handbrake is the best conversion tool around for Linux and there are a metric tonne of DVD creators.

Is it really the job of a video editor to focus its' attentions on providing non-video editing features? That's for OpenShot to decide.

New theme poll results

Alongside OpenShot's survey we ran a poll asking readers whether the OpenShot theme was due for a change.

A massive 1,209 reader voted (almost as many as who took the survey!) and the results were a landslide in favour of YES €“ OpenShot should change its theme. image

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • http://twitter.com/rohangarg Rohan Garg

    * 88% of OpenShot respondents use Unbuntu
    hehe.. it should be Ubuntu :P

  • http://twitter.com/explodingwalrus Carl Draper

    I use Devede for creating DVDs from video files, it makes pretty good looking DVDs, certainly seemed to impress my family

  • Anonymous

    I believe the best way for openshot to implement those features would be to, instead of building them, making it stupid-easy to send their video project to those applications. Simple options in the menu would suffice.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      That would be a great idea.

    • http://blastfromthepast.se/ Tommy Brunn

      I completely agree. DeVeDe is a great application, and if you could easily send projects from OpenShot over to DeVeDe, that would be a whole lot better than implementing some half-assed DVD creator in OpenShot itself.

      • Felix

        I think they should offer different tools example: you could put a menu which says export to create DVD, it could give easy: Devede – Opens Devede , advanced: DVDstyler which I have used to make very intricated DVD menu’s and options. It’s just an opinion it would be cool

    • http://www.gpscardvd.com cardvdgps

      I’m also surprised by the request for DVD creation

  • n-pigeon

    Color correction is more important D:

  • http://stopsatgreen.myopenid.com/ Peter Gasston

    I’m also surprised by the request for DVD creation, but: “handbrake is the best conversion tool around for Linux” – if you only want to convert to H.264, and don’t want options like hardcoded subtitles, yes; but it’s very limited.

  • Anonymous

    i agree with you D0od. The DVD creation makes no sense to me, Handbrake does a good job at that, but maybe users don’t want to open two or three apps at the same time to create or convert their media.

    • daas88

      I didn’t know about handbreak, and I’ve been using ubuntu for 2 years… I had been using winff (frontend for ffmpeg) from the repos for converting audio/video.

      • Anonymous

        Handbrake is really, really nice. Check it out. It’s not in the repos, so you have to Google it.

    • daas88

      I didn’t know about handbreak, and I’ve been using ubuntu for 2 years… I had been using winff (frontend for ffmpeg) from the repos for converting audio/video.

  • http://www.powells.com/blog/?author=104 mxyzptlk

    Are you really all that surprised that 88% of respondents ON AN UBUNTU SITE reported that they use Ubuntu?

    Edit: Sorry, I was thinking of the OpenShot theme poll done here.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The survey was conducted by openshot not us – we, along with many, many other sites blogged about it. I don’t see what’s so ubuntu-specific about that.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      The survey was conducted by openshot not us – we, along with many, many other sites blogged about it. I don’t see what’s so ubuntu-specific about that.

    • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

      Be more aware before you comment :)

    • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

      Be more aware before you comment :)

  • Anonymous

    d0od, I think you’re missing an important point. IMO, if you look at the primary reason people are using OpenShot, you’ll see why DVD creation is a requested feature. Folks editing home videos are generally casual users, even if they are Linux users. An all-in-one solution is invaluable to someone like this… if I can easily capture, edit, and make a DVD all in one program, I just may get around to editing the video from my daughter’s field trip after all. :-)

    EDIT: I agree with danoffs that a good compromise would be to create hooks into external apps to do these extra functions. Provide an easy UI in OpenShot, with basic settings that get handed over to Handbrake, for example.

  • Anonymous

    d0od, I think you’re missing an important point. IMO, if you look at the primary reason people are using OpenShot, you’ll see why DVD creation is a requested feature. Folks editing home videos are generally casual users, even if they are Linux users. An all-in-one solution is invaluable to someone like this… if I can easily capture, edit, and make a DVD all in one program, I just may get around to editing the video from my daughter’s field trip after all. :-)

    EDIT: I agree with danoffs that a good compromise would be to create hooks into external apps to do these extra functions. Provide an easy UI in OpenShot, with basic settings that get handed over to Handbrake, for example.

  • one of them

    why your comment system not work on ubuntu with firefox????

  • one of them

    why your comment system not work on ubuntu with firefox????

    • http://www.manishsinha.net Manish Sinha

      It does. It works for everyone.

      • one of them

        oh ok. some addon block that with safe mode its work.
        thaks anyway!

  • http://www.facebook.com/ultysagar SAM

    Feedback is very important. I hope Canonical learns it soon.

  • http://www.facebook.com/ultysagar SAM

    Feedback is very important. I hope Canonical learns it soon.

 
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