The OpenShot video editor is now available on the Canonical Snap Store.
An official snap package of the Qt-based non-linear editing tool went live today, September 22. Users can install the new snap from App Center (older Deb packages are carried in the Ubuntu archives, so will appear too).
OpenShot 4.0’s big release in August added a swathe of improvements, including long-awaited colour grading tools, better multitrack recording and better integration with ComfyUI AI.
sudo snap install openshot-qt
The sandboxed version of OpenShot isn’t quite “install and go”. It will require users to grant explicit permissions before the app can access the microphone, webcam or open files from or save to removable/external drives.
Permissions can be granted via Settings > Apps > OpenShot or from the command line:
sudo snap connect openshot-qt:audio-record
sudo snap connect openshot-qt:camera
sudo snap connect openshot-qt:removable-media
What does this mean for the OpenShot PPA?
Hopefully not much. That PPA has been around for a long time, and gives those who don’t want to use snaps (or the official AppImage) easy access to ongoing updates, installed properly.
Beside, OpenShot uses a Launchpad-hosted Git repository, and that code is used to build this new snap. It seems probable it’ll continue building Debian packages for its PPA since it comes from the same code anyway.
While OpenShot is on Flathub, it’s an unverified package that has not, as of writing this post, been updated to the latest version (4.0) – with the Snap checked off, perhaps that’s next? Let’s hope!
sudo snap connect openshot-qt:removable-media