OpenShot demos Impressive 3D titles feature

By , Published July 8, 2010

I hate doing this to you but after you've seen this video you'll understand why I am currently speechless. The 3D titles feature coming to OpenShot very soon is demoed in suitably impressive form here by the video editors' dev Jonathan Thomas. 

To sound like a mid-2000 l33t game-nerd – w0ot!!1

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • Claudio

    very good…..i want openshot as default video editor in Ubuntu 10.10

  • Anonymous

    I think 3D titles still need a whole lot of polish – right now they look like some weird kind of hybrid of 90′s TV titles (http://grab.by/5k5K) and … WordArt (http://www.unitype.com/image/Wordart.gif)

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/DATA6WDNBSCFJL6JSP5OP3AADQ asedsa

      I sometimes worry OpenShot developers are only interesting in adding as much bling as possible, as demonstrated by the fact the app had fancy video effects BEFORE it had the ability to ‘Undo’, that is insane IMO. PiTiVi may be taking a much more boring approach by getting all the basics down before tackling anything advanced, but I think is the better way to do it in the long run.

      • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

        I’m not sure that’s an entirely fair assumption; some of the bling was likely easier to implement than undo support!

        I do worry about OpenShot’s direction. They recently ran a survey asking users what their most wanted features were and the top 3 or 4 were all features better served by existing applications (dvd menu creation, video transcoding, etc) IMO OpenShot needs to start introducing some of the relative “basics” that even Windows Live Movie Maker has no such as colour correction etc. Stick to being a video editor not a super-mall of 100 different things.

      • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

        The OpenShot community is very friendly. If you have a concern about the developers’ priorities, you should voice it directly to them and hear their explanation instead of simply assuming the reasons by yourself.

        Jonathan Thomas usually takes the community input very seriously: I always thought undo was given less priority than it should, but back then, by looking at the official site discussions, it was very clear that I didn’t represent a majority. So I don’t think it was insane as you think it was.

      • Anonymous

        Well, one could argue it’s a video app, not an undo app xD

    • Anonymous

      I find it difficult to agree with you more. The look like something you might find in animated gif’s on a web page from the 90′s. I don’t understand why the author of the post is “speechless”.

      • Anonymous

        I’m also speechless. The developer provides cheesy looking 3D titles to his app but he doesn’t carry about basic issues like separate audio and video editing or -as some have said- undo! Unbelievable.

  • http://wakoopa.com/xfact XFACT

    This video editor has great future!

  • swims

    @lemabu: I fully agree with you. Let’s remember that less is more.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/AXESQLBUWUNVG2OLO7IYEVK7AM Rodislav

    cool

  • dRewsus

    What Im curious about is making true 3D videos that you need the glasses to wear.

  • Anonymous

    I really like the 3D titles, however I’m worried about what d00d sayd. I think OpenShot must keep its perspective as a video editor and do that well.

  • Chris

    Time to check out Openshot again. Admittedly the 3D titles do look like the video equivalent of “Wordart” – kind of like mid-90s television or today’s community TV stations, but at least it’s another feature that people will surely use. Maybe Openshot will get used for editing in community TV stations, now that it has 3D titles? :-)

    Oh, and to the people praising Pitivi’s approach: Don’t. Pitivi has been around for something like four years, and until recently (less than 6 months ago) it was completely useless; couldn’t even render video. It has been leapfrogged by both Openshot and Kdenlive, which are both younger projects but have many more features and most importantly can actually be used to edit video.

    Don’t get me wrong, Pitivi works fine for very simple edits. But it’s ridiculous that it’s been around for such a long time and still can’t do transitions. And it’s not a case of “Pitivi is doing it the right way and all the others are just cheap hacks” – the existence of such useful features in Kdenlive and Openshot, and the pace at which new features are being added, proves that Pitivi’s way of developing is most definitely not the best way.

    • http://twitter.com/conscioususer Conscious User

      Let’s be fair: the “four years” you mention were used for developing PiTiVi and its backend gnonlin, while Kdenlive and OpenShot started from an already mature backend. I love OpenShot and I use it, but time of development is a very superficial measure in this case.

  • Anonymous

    Openshot is awesome, please canonical get rid of pitivi !

  • RZ

    I switched from Openshot to Pitivi a few weeks ago because I thought it was less buggy. Then I had a problem with a project I spent hours working on it. It simply refused to open. No help, no forums, no nothing from Pitivi. I subscribed to the newsletter explaining my problem and nobody didn’t even care to reply. …Now I’m back to OPENSHOT! The community is much more friendly and responsive.

  • MIke Strike

    I just worked wit Openshot the last 5 hours.
    It is really, really nice. Nice effects good timeline, very good export Options (YouTube, Vimeo, Apple TV and so on).
    But it should crash less. Saving the project all 10 minutes is strongly recommended.

    3D titles are very impressive, but more stability is absolutely more important.

  • Aaulia

    Sigh I though this would allow me to do something like those 3D text in Fringe TV Series… (which feel more like Augmented Reality).

  • http://twitter.com/paulotwain Paulo José Amaro

    Both text and Particles effects was obviously made in Blender! Credits, please…

  • lala

    Openshot segfaults on my freshly installed Lucid point release. :(