Introduction

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning, open-source video editor, available on Linux, Mac, and Windows. OpenShot can create stunning videos, films, and animations with an easy-to-use interface and rich feature-set.

Features

  • Cross-platform (Supports Linux, OS X, and Windows)

  • Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)

  • Powerful curve-based Key frame animations

  • Desktop integration (drag and drop support)

  • Unlimited tracks / layers

  • Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, rotation, and cutting

  • Video transitions with real-time previews

  • Compositing, image overlays, watermarks

  • Title templates, title creation, sub-titles

  • 2D animation support (image sequences)

  • 3D animated titles (and effects)

  • SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits

  • Scrolling motion picture credits

  • Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)

  • Frame accuracy (step through each frame of video)

  • Time-mapping and speed changes on clips (slow/fast, forward/backward, etc…)

  • Audio mixing and editing

  • Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) , and many more!

Screenshot

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System Requirements

Video editing benefits from large amounts of memory, modern CPUs, and fast disks. Basically, you want the best computer you can afford when editing video. Here are the minimum system requirements:

  • 64-bit Operating System (Linux, OS X, Windows 7/8/10)

  • Multi-core processor with 64-bit support

  • 4GB of RAM (16GB recommended)

  • 500 MB of hard-disk space for installation

  • Optional: Solid-state drive (SSD), if utilizing disk-caching (and an additional 10GB of hard-disk space)

License

OpenShot Video Editor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.