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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.openshot.org/

A non-linear video editor.

• 2021-02-17 – 2.5.1-x86_64 on Windows 10
• 2018-04-07 – 1.4.3 on Devuan-1.0.0-jessie-i386-DVD

• 2010-09-03 – (version not recorded) on Unity Linux rc2, updated 2010-09-02

  • (the Unity Linux release is already out, my update should be good)

2021-02-17 – 2.5.1-x86_64 ∞

• Why the fuck is the installer offering to make an exception in the Windows Firewall?
• God it’s ugly.
• It begins with five tracks, but they’re in reverse order.
• It hiccups when playing.
• It has no CPU or GPU graphics acceleration support for me.. how?
• Changing the theme to default doesn’t actually make it all look good again, but it does solve the playing hiccups.
• Unlike Shotcut, overlapping clips doesn’t create a destructive transition.
• The zoom/scroll hotkey+scrollwheel is annoying.
• There’s some kind of snap to grid thing happening with transitions. I have to fight with it

• If assets get moved, it’s basically fucked. It’ll prompt for each of them one at a time with the only filename it knows about. If you renamed your file, then you’ll have to rename it back to select it. If you do not immediately choose the replacement then it removes it from the project; not even leaving a placeholder!

  • If you press escape a lot, you will get back to the project. Then when you quit, it doesn’t prompt you to save all of the above shenanigans.

2018-04-07 – 1.4.3 ∞

Avidemux isn’t in the Devuan repositories, so I’ll check this out again.

• Amazingly fast startup
• Not intuitive at all.
• Clicking on the video in the timeline just makes it vanish.
• Clicking on the horizontal scroll bar just makes it nudge a tiny bit.
• I can’t scroll to see more than 42:32:00 of a timeline. What kind of amateur night bullshit is this?

• How does this even work?

  • Play video.
  • Go to location I want.
  • .. clip? I want to take a clip. How do I interact with it?
• Fuck me, I had to view the OpenShot manual to get some sort of help.
• The clip tool doesn’t do anything, and then it explodes with its selections everywhere because it lags so bad.
• So with a huge clip, how do I select an A:B area? I can select an A, clip it, delete what’s before it.. and then, fucking what? Manually move the whole clip to the left, scroll, move it, scroll, move it.. until I can see more and I can select my B and delete what’s after it? Really? Fucking really? Am I the first person who wants to just clip a part of a video? This isn’t that god damned hard.
• Can’t I just clip from where I currently paused? Do I really have to use a clip tool and manually click and hope I pick the right spot?
• Wait, how do I even save a clip?
• right-click > properties, manually change the position on the timeline.

• Jesus fuck, I have to transcode!

  • I have to just guess at settings.
  • Its default is .ogg, when it should be .ogv.

Downgrading this software to disliked.

Fuck this noise, I’m going back to VLC. See VLC A to B clip recording.

2010-09-03 – (version not recorded) ∞

• See also Kdenlive versus OpenShot

• I couldn’t play .mp4 videos downloaded from YouTube. Downgrading FFmpeg solved this.

  • bug 440721
  • bug 632016
  • Unity Linux issue 236 ^[ 1 ] was dev.unity-linux.org/issues/236 (not archived)
    — Cannot be reproduced. I’ll be experimenting some more.

It automatically selects an audio device and has no GUI configuration. Since PulseAudio is busted out of the box and doesn’t start even if set up, I had to uninstall pulseaudio for Openshot to default back to ALSA. Even then I had to fiddle around until my system healed itself.

Seems to work well. I wish it had audio waveforms. I find some of it quite awkward to use until I get used to it. After a few hours of fiddling I had the hang of things and I could make something pretty complex.

This is my first use of a serious non-linear editor, and I’m pleased with what I was able to accomplish although it took way more heavy lifting than I was expecting. A “style” would need to be defined for videos, so that I could make a template and much more easily drop things in and shift them around.

I don’t know if there’s a way to extend one clip and

1. shove over all other clips which are past its end point to its right
2. either shove over all clips which overlap it (same vertical bar from the selection-point)

3. , or extend other clips which overlap it (same vertical bar from the selection-point)

—

• Wow, Openshot doesn’t use relative paths. So when I move things around it’s completely fubared and requires a huge amount of symbolic linking to get things working again. Damn that blows. There also doesn’t seem to be an easy way to wave a wand and have it fix everything by making me pick the current directory or some such.

Usage ∞

YouTube High Quality videos ∞

Under “Create a Project” choose HDV 720 25p

I keep it at 10 minutes.

Under “export”

• Profile: Web
• Target: YouTube-HD
• Video Profile: HDV 720 25p

• Quality: High

It complains about missing codecs. Boo.

\smart-root install libx264_67 liblame0

.. nope, that doesn’t help. Oh well, let’s do low quality.

YouTube Low Quality videos ∞

The project is Square NTSC.

Everything else is obvious..