OpenShot 1.3.0 Released - Bucketloads of New Features

A new version for OpenShot, one of the most popular video editors for Linux has been released. The  new version brings plenty of new features, better integration with Gnome, new themes, Youtube upload feature and many many more updates.

New Features in this release

• Improved stability, performance, and usability
• New user interface theme (titled 'Fresh')

• Stock icons support

• Add multiple clips to the timeline in one step (including transitions or fades)
• More timeline animations & smoother play-head motion

• Many new exciting 3D animations (including Snow, Lens Flare, Particle Effects, Animated World Maps)
• Files, transitions, and effects filtering (toggle buttons and search bar)

• Improved video rotation (including 1 click rotation)
  
  

  

• Automatic detection of image sequences
• Smoother scaling (panning, zooming, and rotation)

• Transition snapping and improved direction detection
• Video upload to YouTube and Vimeo
  
  

  

  
  
• You need to install Blender 2.56 to have full 3D effects
• Install frei0r-plugins for additional effects (available in software center)
• Full list of bug fixes and improvements

Announcement Video by Lead Developer Jonathan Thomas

Download Instructions

Openshot has become a really powerful feature packed video editor with an easy to use interface that just works out of the box. If you haven't tried already, it is about time to give OpenShot a shot now.

You can download Openshot from here (source code, Fedora packages and Live DVD)

Ubuntu users run following commands to add PPA and install Openshot:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonoomph/openshot-edge

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install openshot openshot-doc