Comments on An introduction to video editing in Openshot 2.0
Openshot is one of the most important and widely-used open source video editing software tools out there. Being very simple to use, powerful enough, and free of charge, this video editor has managed to build a large community of enthusiastic users around it who waited for the release of the second major version of their favorite software with anticipation for years. Now that the release was made available.
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Can Openshot 2 do frame-accurate editing of H.264 videos in Matroska container, without having to resort to external reencoding? Or any other container, at that? I have been looking for a video editor able to do such a thing under Linux since 2011, to no avail.
Kdenlive should handle that just fine.
The problem with Openshot has always been that it is unstable and painfully slow.
Kdenlive used to be suprerior in both areas but unfortunately detoriated over the last years. 0.9.6 was workable, with just a few glitches. The 15.x releases are so bug that I've had to editing videos in Windows, something I have never done before. I have not run Windows for years...
EDL support? XBMC/Kodi support EDL, but it is better to cut than just to skip.
A TV show with commercials removed is 30-40% smaller. Encode from mpeg2 to h.264 and save 75-80% of the storage for the same content. Generally, that means a 1 hr TV show at 8-10G becomes less than 2G - some will be less than 1G if they aren't action shows.
where did all of the video effects go? there appear to be only 7. My version 1.4 on my laptop has 45 video effects. is there a library I'm missing or not seeing?
I just want to trim the front 55 seconds off some videos and export without re-encoding. i.e. end product is precisely, exactly the same data, only it begins 55 seconds later than the original. I can't see how to do this. Openshot has a zillion options for exporting but this, the most dumb, simple thing, seems absent. Please tell me it's me who's dumb here, not openshot.
"Splitting"
- This says to right click Project Files to get the option to be able to split... I do not however have ANY option to. Help???
after seperating one part of the clip can you make the audio louder than recorded? if so how because I've been trying to figure that out
There is no "split clip" option when right-clicking the clip, in v. 2.4.4, the current version. I can't find any way to delete video to the left and right of certain times in the clip. I don't know if this operation is called clip, crop, or trim.
I have just recently discovered how to add effects to individual clips. However, I would like to eventually do something like blurred, red pulsings around the edges of the video clip timed to a heartbeat, like in the skyrim special edition mod Moonlight Tales, when the character is forced to transform when both of the moons are full. Is there any way to replicate that effect within video editing? If so, how?
get gud scrub