Install OpenShot on Ubuntu, Feature-Rich Free Video Editor Application
OpenShot is a free and open source video editor or video editing application for the GNU/Linux operating system which is under the GNU GPL 3 license. But not only for the GNU/Linux operating system, OpenShot is also available for free for Windows and Mac OSX operating systems.
OpenShot is not inferior to paid video editors, with OpenShot users can edit videos, create videos from photos or songs, then can edit them with various creations by adding effects to videos, transitions, subtitles and others and then export the video to DVD, YouTube. , and various video formats.
OpenShot is a video editor that is simple, easy to use, flexible and has many reliable features that make users comfortable and able to be creative in using it, some of the features of OpenShot include:
- Unlimited tracks and layers
- Video transitions with real-time preview
- Video clip size settings, video scale, video snapping and cropping.
- Supports many video, audio and image formats.
Supports drag and drop in the process of editing or adding video, audio, and images - Added watermarks, video compositing, image overlays
- Templates for video titles and subtitles
- Title with 3D Animation template
- Supports Rotoscoping / Image Sequences
- There are many digital video effects, such as brightness (brightness), gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key (bluescreen / greenscreen) and many other effects
- Ken Burns effect
- Editing and mixing audio.
- Presets on animation key frames and sizes.
- Multiple video transitions
- Video speed changes, such as slow motion and more
- Zoom in and out (zooming) videos
- Video encoding
- SVG friendlys for creating and inserting vectors in video titles and credits
- Drag and drop timeline
- Scrolling speed on credit display
- Solid color clips
- And other features.
Install OpenShot on Ubuntu and Linux Mint
To install OpenShot on Ubuntu and its variants such as Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu and other types of Ubuntu, as well as Ubuntu derivatives such as Linux Mint and others. Add the PPA repository and update the cache with the following command:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa sudo apt-get update
After successful and done. Install OpenShot with the following command:
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt
Wait for the download and installation process to complete.
After the installation process is complete. Open the application from the application menu or via Terminal by typing:
openshot-qt
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