Software » Video Editors » OpenShot Video Editor 3.0.0

v3.0.0

Highlights & Features:
Bumping version to 3.0.0 (minimum libopenshot dependency to 0.3.0)
Huge PTS-related improvements (smoother playback, better at finding missing frames, better video compatibility)
Huge cache improvements (new cache preferences, pre-roll, ability to clear cache)
Huge improvement to audio waveform support (faster waveforms, improved algorithm, more accurate, caching, and optimizations)
Huge memory improvements (fixed leaks, cleared unneeded memory)
Huge snapping improvements (while moving & trimming clips and transitions)
Huge visual update to keyframe icons (circle, diamond, square)
Huge improvements to User-Guide (new topics, updated pics, PDF support)
Huge improvements to stability (lots of crashes fixed)
New High DPI Support (4k monitor support, improved assets)
Improved location preferences (for default folders - recent vs project)
New Export Clips feature: render one or more clips into their own video files (in their original profile / format)
Added support for Blender 3.3.x (and many other blender-related improvements)
Improved Animated Titles to render with project's FPS (smoother animations)
Faster clip slicing performance
Performance improvements for Title Editor (reduce lag while typing)
Added display for real-time performance metrics
New export targets: Animated GIF, MP3 (audio only)
New export presets: YouTube 2K, YouTube 4K, MKV (h.264)
Support many new image formats
New chroma key color modes (including BABL extensions in all 3 OSes)
Many fixes to sorting, including ability to manually sort lists (useful for translations)
Many fixes to Caption effect & UI (for closed captioning: VTT/Subrip titles)
Many fixes to translations system
Fixed wipe / mask effect (fixed contrast algorithm)
Fixed crashing related to Undo/Redo system (i.e. spamming undo)
Fixed resolution of China Video Disc (CVD)
Fixed About->Changelog dialog (correctly parse log files)
Improved support for changing file types in file properties dialog
More reliable Mac OS builds (update regex used for Mac notarizations)
Update transitions to automatically set their direction (forward or backwards based on where it intersects a clip)
Reduce # of threads during video decoding (fixed huge regression)
Updated default OpenShot sample rate to 48000
Update SVG Title templates to new higher DPI
Support for previewing anamorphic video profiles
Move protobuf data files to assets folder (used for OpenCV video effects - tracker, object detection, stabilization)
Improvements to Webkit and Web Engine support (keep parity between them)
Added portable installer options for Windows installer (no UAC prompt)
Updated AppStream XML metadata (Linux app metadata)
New Linux build server + updated AppImage format
Support for many new languages
openshot-qt Changelog (Version: 3.0.0)
8aaee8d 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5027 from OpenShot/windows-auto-uninstall HEAD, origin/release-20221201
2d355ce 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Updating AppVerName, used on welcome screen of windows installer, and uninstall screens
b715f5c 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Attempt to clean-up invalid uninstall AppID from previous daily build (experimental) - take 3
cbc3f19 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Attempt to clean-up invalid uninstall AppID from previous daily build (experimental) - take 2
817726f 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Attempt to clean-up invalid uninstall AppID from previous daily build (experimental)
42a71c7 2022-12-08 Jonathan Thomas Updating name used in Windows uninstaller
c71ce8d 2022-12-07 Jonathan Thomas Trying 3rd time to fix the Windows appID of the installer, so it matches previous releases
9873527 2022-12-07 Jonathan Thomas Trying again to fix the Windows appID of the installer, so it matches previous releases
cb8afb6 2022-12-07 Jonathan Thomas Trying again to fix the Windows appID of the installer, so it matches previous releases
7ce9680 2022-12-07 Jonathan Thomas Trying to fix the Windows appID of the installer, so it matches previous releases
5ba51b3 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Do not allow setting .openshot_qt path as a "recent" file path (this can happen due to backup/recovery)
32f06c9 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Sentry fix: protect against float NaN when detecting default audio device sample rate on launch
5957c1b 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Sentry fix: protect against missing timeline object (likely during shutdown)
c31219d 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Sentry fix: protect against undefined event arg (selectClip / selectTransition)
ef046ac 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Sentry fix: protect from null project scale, and handle project scale consistently
5e26cc7 2022-12-05 Jonathan Thomas No longer test all graphic cards on launch of Preferences - instead add a "Test" button for the user to experiment with. This makes the Preferences window MUCH less likely to crash, and still gives users the ability to experiment with hardware acceleration.
9d81177 2022-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Adding Export Clips to documentation about Files, including new screenshot
696470d 2022-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Updating docs with 2 new export presets (gif and mp3)
8745abe 2022-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Adding "Animated Gif" and "MP3 audio only" presets, as well as removing AV1 presets (for now - since they are unusably slow). Also removing an old FLV preset which was broken.
a9b9c52 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Updating color shift documentation
943f1b3 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Fix regression which broken saving and propagating file tags (on File details view and File properties dialog)
9b0fccd 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/release-20221201' into release-20221201
59dd113 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Updating docs, adding links to AppImage installation guide wiki and Blender/Inkscape installation guide wiki
46603be 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5018 from OpenShot/fix-inkscape-appimage
5c45c85 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Simpler approach to simply remove LD_LIBRARY_PATH from our environment variables before launching our popen process
ea28817 2022-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Fixing inkscape launching in AppImage on newer / different distros, use system libraries for missing libraries
9164dca 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Updating contributors.json file
b6561ce 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Updating gitlab-ci to remove linux-bionic tags (old build server)
7492141 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Bumping version to 3.0.0, and libopenshot dependency to 0.3.0
c6a6ba4 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5015 from OpenShot/fix-user-guide-javascript
d4b6fe3 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Fixing error with frameElement missing
2b389ae 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5014 from OpenShot/fix-user-guide-javascript
0d6cd42 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas More attempts to communicate between cdn hosted documentation embedded on openshot.org iframe
c53853b 2022-12-01 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5011 from OpenShot/fix-changelog-parsing
0ad1d5a 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Moving away from multiline regex, due to line ending issues on Windows
f94cb69 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Output the powershell version info in gitlab-ci
eb7bb51 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Experimental utf8 support for Windows gitlab-ci scripts
cd5e291 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Removing utf_16 changelog attempt
cbc033b 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Merge branch 'develop' into fix-changelog-parsing
1862ede 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5012 from OpenShot/fix-user-guide-javascript
cf11f95 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Switching to a more dynamic system of iFrame resizing for openshot.org
e7f804c 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Updating build server
311e0b9 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5010 from OpenShot/fix-user-guide-javascript
a781788 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Fixing bugs with changelog parsing, and removing the 2 separate git log formats - we only generate a single format git log. Simplifying the regex also to be more flexible.
be8cefd 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Improve user guide embedded javascript, to communicate back to openshot.org/user-guide correctly. Since we are hosting these docs on a cdn, this is the only secure way to resize the contents of these docs inside an iframe. Also, making external links use target _blank
e4c7797 2022-11-30 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5009 from OpenShot/new-linux-appimage
a164f2d 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Better comments
a096c5e 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Better comments
0da15ce 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Remove extra debugging logs
0fabf4e 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Fix copyfile typo
907ba7f 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Fix copyfile typo
cc4d1ab 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Fix copyfile typo
a1523e3 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Copy .desktop file to usr/share/applications
68619e5 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Updating appstream xml format
bd5fbd2 2022-11-29 Jonathan Thomas Updating appstream xm...

OpenShot's Features include:

* Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
* Gnome integration (drag and drop support)
* Multiple tracks
* Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting
* Video transitions with real-time previews
* Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
* Title templates, title creation
* SVG friendly, to create and include titles and credits
* Scrolling motion picture credits
* Solid color clips (including alpha compositing)
* Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences
* Drag and drop timeline
* Frame stepping, key-mappings: J,K, and L keys
* Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)
* Key Frame animation
* Digital zooming of video clips
* Speed changes on clips (slow motion etc)
* Custom transition lumas and masks
* Re-sizing of clips (frame size)
* Audio mixing and editing
* Presets for key frame animations and layout
* Ken Burns effect (making video by panning over an image)