Software » Video Editors » OpenShot Video Editor 3.4.0

v3.4.0

Highlights & Features:
New Crop workflow with interactive crop handles + crop context menu (keeps crop/transform behavior in sync)
New Timing mode toggle for quick drag-to-retime editing (plus better real-time preview during retime)
Draggable keyframes (timeline drag + improved keyframe panel) with better snapping/precision to the FPS grid
Big upgrades to the Experimental QWidget Timeline (faster scrolling/zooming, improved snapping, markers, thumbnails, waveforms, fewer freezes)
Multi-selection editing across clips/effects (property dock + transform handles + safer undo/redo)
Faster exports with VideoCacheThread integration + smarter bitrate for “All Formats”
New/expanded effects & creative tools: LUT Color Map, Lens Flare, Sharpen, Outline, Spherical/360 tools (plus updated docs/icons)
Improved import/export interoperability (Final Cut Pro XML + EDL updates, better keyframe support, more standards-aligned timecode)
AppImage + distro compatibility improvements (Ubuntu/Snap/Flatpak handling, Arch/Manjaro fixes, Blender 5.0 animated title compatibility)
Updated translations & credits (many new/updated languages, refreshed supporters/donor lists, faster credits/about filtering)
openshot-qt Changelog (Version: 3.4.0)
fe1d71c 2025-12-15 Jonathan Thomas Protect Experimental Timeline from recursive paint events - causing the timeline to become unresponsive HEAD, origin/release-20250612
8d9d0bb 2025-12-14 Jonathan Thomas Use dynamic video bitrate for "All Format" exports
4d0c598 2025-12-13 Jonathan Thomas Adding has_static_image optimization in new experimental timeline (qwidget), to not keep requesting duplicate thumbnails
bd11e49 2025-12-13 Jonathan Thomas Improve snapping on qwidget timeline backend, and ignore snapping to self (and fixing a bug causing snapping to stop working)
2530bfc 2025-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Fixing "start" and "start and end" thumbnail slot positions, and timed thumbnail generation on pause during a trim
24e5957 2025-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Fixing slot offsets on qwidget thumbnail styles (experimental timeline)
64c1478 2025-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Making thumbnail style preference to immediately take effect when changing values (if experimental timeline is present)
c110b00 2025-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Improving thumbnail generation for experimental qwidget timeline, so trimming works correctly, and thumbnails load more reliably
83d8c5b 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Protecting from missing audio data on webview waveform display logic
31d1947 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Clear cache on "Save Frame As" to prevent corrupt or tiny preview sized logic from squashing images.
b3a9d48 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Fix regression on Time->Repeat which ignored our start trim
b939bdd 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Fixing Slice (Keep Right) to include the playhead position frame, so the preview does not disappear for the right edge of the clip.
d9c319b 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Fixing bug where clicking on marker jumps 1 frame to the left of the marker (on webview timeline backends)
26c9382 2025-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Updating waveform generation to match new qwdiget timeline backend - a nicer visualization, rendered on a center line (instead of bottom up)
48885b0 2025-12-10 Jonathan Thomas Increase values for Aspect Ratio, Pixel Ratio on Profile Editor, Export Dialog, and File Properties, which allows files that have really large ratios, like: "display_ratio": { "den": 2059423, "num": 1157472 }, "pixel_ratio": { "den": 32145, "num": 32152 }
13eaba1 2025-12-10 Jonathan Thomas Implementing a deep copy of the project data so our Query filter() only serves up cached copies that are safe to mutate - and it's lighting fast. This fixes a regression breaking some context menus from working with our undo/redo system.
9346ea6 2025-12-10 Jonathan Thomas Fix repeated keyframes for Time->Repeat option, so we accurately repeat the keyframes on the visible/trimmed clip.
9916fc3 2025-12-09 Jonathan Thomas Fixing property frame clamping and video widget frame clamping to edges of visible/trimmed clip, so if the playehad is outside the bounds of a trimmed clip, it will return/modify the nearest edge frame of the clip.
c6ba04b 2025-12-06 Jonathan Thomas Updating clip duration when emojis and static images are trimmed/resized (bug)
74281ef 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Unselect transition before deleting it, this should prevent a crash when Transitions are selected and deleted.
87560ef 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Adding Select All/None, Ripple Select, and Razor shortcuts (q/w) to the qwidget timeline backend.
4dc2743 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Fixing Time->Repeat to fully support start/end trims, so it only repeats the visible clip section
66d8da2 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Fix issue where transaction groups were not working after closing and opening a saved project. Now undo/redo operations are still connected to their transaction ids.
7fceacb 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Truncating log entries which are too long (greater than 2048 characters). This is an arbitrary length - to prevent huge, waveform arrays and other huge log entries from filling up our log files)
067cdfe 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Fixing magic wand animated title to be compatible with Blender 5.0
4b9d336 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Hardening property editor against breaking on multiple audio-only clips and non int values - causing a freeze that required OpenShot to be restarted
9693f27 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Improving audio splitting to ignore clips with no audio, reuse the source clip when it has no video/image (i.e. audio only files)
39074df 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Extending timeline when Time->Repeat is used - in case our new long repeated clip extends past the edge of the project duration / timeline
c789b5e 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Fixing "Remove all Gaps" to not affect overlapping clips and transitions.
f1bd48b 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Updating Final Cut Pro XML import to import video tracks first and then audio tracks afterwords (more natural import order)
52ca8b4 2025-12-05 Jonathan Thomas Prevent timeline caching during "Save Frame As..." to prevent crashing
c20f504 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Updating JS timeline backends to use industry standard frame 0 to fps-1 range (00:00:00:00)
6a205ce 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Fixing lens flare animated title for Blender 5.0 compatibility
5f1666a 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Fixing frame # parsing on Blender animated title progress label
8ee2981 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Removing blur title, which does not work in Blender 5.0 and freezes blender. Also, no real need for this, since OpenShot has a great blur effect now.
8f580b3 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Fixing glass and glare animated titles to support Blender 5.0, and adding new glare type: Sun Beams with animated beams
0597d35 2025-12-04 Jonathan Thomas Fixing earth animated title for Blender 5 - it had many errors
7aac6da 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Fixing exploding text for Blender 5
a09b462 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Fixing blinds and dissolving text animated titles for Blender 5.0, and discovered that "World Scene" lighting is making many of our titles appear dim. Defaulting specular intensity to 1.0, and setting new range for all effects to 1 to 5. Fixed a bug in blur animated title also - but it is running too slow to be useful.
b87fc85 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Refactoring some Blender 5.0 compatibility issues into a base.py.in file.
ebbc2b5 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Updating minimum version of blender to 5.0
aeda101 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Fixing colors animated title for Blender 5.0 compatibility
f68aa7a 2025-12-03 Jonathan Thomas Protect animated title editor from invalid alpha value in color picker.
4b794ce 2025-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Fixing crash when deleting a Track with selected clips and transitions.
4363359 2025-12-02 Jonathan Thomas Adding DTD version support for Final Cut Pro XML export
b04cfa7 2025-11-24 Jonathan Thomas Improving compatibility of EDL export and import, to follow industry standards as much as possible, but also includes many OpenShot-specific details.
036e18f 2025-11-24 Jonathan Thomas Updating final cut pro XML exporting and docs example to use 00:00:00:00 as the timecode for frame 1 (industry standard)
8bf672e 2025-11-23 Jonathan Thomas Adding basic motion effects for Final Cut Pro export and import, so we can now export and import clips tracks, start/end trim, alpha, volume, location, scale, rotation keyframes. There are some limitations and some data loss (i.e. scale_x/y must be the same value, some interpolation handles are lost for bezier, shear_x/y is not supported).
e0f8916 2025-11-23 Jonathan Thomas Experimental UI code to set window state and geometry before window is shown (so our initial widgets don't appear and then suddenly disappear)
14541d3 2025-11-23 Jonathan Thomas Fixing some issues with Time reversing for repeated time curves. Now you should be able to reverse any arbitrary time curve points.
b3fd352 2025-11-22 Jonathan Thomas Fix paint issue in qwidget timeline for waveforms (sometimes waveform would not appear). Also, adding some debug logging to the waveform generation flow.
e678c01 2025-11-21 Jonathan Thomas Updating EDL exports to add all major keyframes as comments (location, scale, shear, rotation, alpha, and volume)
15a0531 2025-11-21 Jonathan Thomas Fixing more bugs on XML export, ensuring we are as close to the DTD spec as possible. Now XML exported/imported is complatible with the v4/v5 xmeml formats published by Apple online.
4256b20 2025-11-21 Jonathan Thomas Removing adobe specific attributes from XML export, so we use a pure and valid Final Cut Pro XML format, according to published DTD files for v4 and v5 of this format.
d78e891 2025-11-21 Jonathan Thomas Since I can't figure out why our timeline height is not being restored correctly by our restoreState and restoreGeometry functions - we are adding 1 extra hidden setting ...

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)