OpenShot Video Editor

Free and open-source video editing software!

About OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is open-source software designed to help businesses trim, slice, edit, and mix audios and videos in various formats on a drag-and-drop interface. It provides 3D animation capabilities, which let administrators utilize effects to adjust colors, sizes, length, and text across video projects.

It includes an audio editing module, which enables businesses to visualize audio files and render waveforms as part of videos. Professionals can use a special effects engine to modify, reverse, slow down, or speed up motion in videos.

Other features include real-time preview, compositing, title templates, clip resizing, video transitions, desktop integration, keyframe animations, and more. Users can create personalized SVG vector titles or choose from predefined templates to adjust the titles' color, font, and text in the editing panel.


Key benefits of OpenShot Video Editor

» Cross-Platform
OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Get started and download our installer today at https://www.openshot.org/download.

» Trim & Slice
Quickly trim your videos and find those perfect moments.

» Animation & Keyframes
Using our robust animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in your video project.

» Unlimited Tracks
Add layers as you need them for watermarks, background videos, audio tracks, and more.

» Video Effects
Using our video effects engine, remove the background from your video, invert the colors, adjust brightness, and more.

» Audio Waveforms
Visualize your audio files as waveforms, and even output the waveforms as part of your video.

» Title Editor
Adding titles to your video has never been easier. Use one of our templates or make your own.

» 3D Animations
Render beautiful 3D animated titles and effects, such as snow, lens flares, or flying text.

» Slow Motion & Time Effects
Control the power of time, reversing, slowing down, and speeding up video. Use a preset or animate the playback speed and direction.

» Edit Video
Drag and drop video, audio, or images from your file manager into OpenShot. It is that easy for anyone to get started with video editing.

» 70+ Languages
OpenShot is available in many languages and can be translated online with LaunchPad.

» Simple User Interface
We have designed OpenShot to be the easiest and friendliest video editing software! Try it and see for yourself.


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OpenShot Video Editor Software - Twenty animated titles included (requires Blender).
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OpenShot Video Editor Software - Twenty animated titles included (requires Blender).

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Haris
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  • Industry: Chemicals
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Incredible Video Editing Software

Reviewed on 10/05/2021

I always use Openshot video editor when i need to make some exciting edited videos. The software is...

I always use Openshot video editor when i need to make some exciting edited videos. The software is very easy to use and available on free of cost. Openshot Video Editor supports multiple formats and can be easily downloaded from their website. My overall experience with this software is very amazing and i strongly recommend Openshot video editor to the professionals who are looking for exciting video editing experience.

Pros

The videos can be edited in a very simple way by just drag and drop and you can add animations, watermark, sound effects and many other exciting things in your videos. I am using this software for last 3 years and always found it very helpful and full of exciting features. In Openshot video editor you can also trim your videos and add flying text and 3D animations. You can also speed up and slow down your videos according to your need. The interface is so simple and understandable one can easily use this software without any problem.

Cons

As of my experience i have never face any difficulty in Openshot video editor. The software always provide me all the necessary tools and features which i need and to make my videos beautiful and colorful.

Syed
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

OpenShot Video Editor is a great tool to make a perfect video

Reviewed on 25/08/2020

OpenShot is a versatile tool. My experience to work with it is great.

OpenShot is a versatile tool. My experience to work with it is great.

Pros

I am using OpenShot almost daily to make varities type of videos and this is really a handy tool to make videos quickly. I can mix and match my all video elemants, also I can add extra tools if I need from the OpenShot. It's really easy to get a complete video with in few minutes and I think you don't need to be an expart video editor to work with Openshot. Now a days, so may people has their own channel and they also want to make videos to show everyone and I think OpenShoot is perfect for inexpert people. For official use Openshot is a great video editor.

Cons

As a regular user of OpenShot I would say it's a great tool. But I wish if they could have more additional elemants and tools then it will be more easier to complete videos. However, I like use this tool and this is make my task esay.

Géovanny
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  • Industry: Graphic Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The free and intuitive video editing solution for all levels

Reviewed on 16/02/2023

Pros

As an Openshot user, I can say that there are several advantages to this video editing software. First of all, its free nature makes it a popular choice for beginners or users with a limited budget. Second, Openshot is relatively easy to use, thanks to its intuitive user interface and smooth learning curve. In addition, it offers a variety of editing tools, visual effects and transitions to customize my videos. Finally, Openshot is available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac and Linux, making it accessible to a wide community of users

Cons

Openshot can sometimes be unstable and can crash or close unexpectedly, which can be frustrating if you're working on a large project. Also, its range of features is not as extensive as some of the more advanced video editing software, which can limit its capabilities for more complex projects. Finally, although the Openshot community is active and often provides updates, support can be limited compared to more popular and commercial video editing solutions. Despite these drawbacks, I find Openshot to still be an excellent choice for beginner to intermediate users looking for a simple, free video editing solution.

Bintou
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

OpenShot Video Editor

Reviewed on 04/11/2022

OpenShot Video Editor is a good quality video editing program

OpenShot Video Editor is a good quality video editing program

Pros

I'm a Youtuber and I use this softwareto edit my videos since the creation of the Youtube channel until now. It's very easy to use

Cons

It's a good software it's very easy to use no problem

Sarada
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

The friendly video editing software

Reviewed on 08/03/2020

Before finding this software I faced many problems using different video editing software. That...

Before finding this software I faced many problems using different video editing software. That software was more complicated and difficult to use. anyway, the outcome also not much good. But after finding this software I'm making high-quality videos without any difficulties with minimum time-consuming. I would like to say this is the best software for video editing because this is very friendly software anyone can use this with the minimal knowledge. The good thing is the best quality videos we can make within a minimum time period.

Pros

The best thing about this software is easy to control or use. It means the way of using this software very much familiar to me. This is free software. Nowadays most of the peoples are using this software to make the videos. Especially, When they are making videos for the business promoting purpose. Personally I'm using this software to make the video clip by using the pictures. Then I can use the audio track also. Othe thing is I can insert the letters to my video, Finally I can make the subtitles also. I like this software and recently I installed the latest version of this software.

Cons

So far I don't have much problem during using of this software, But I think it is some difficulties I felt during the making of subtitles. It was a little bit of getting more time. Still, I'm also studying about this software. I think later on It will be ok for me.

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OpenShot Video Editor FAQs

Below are some frequently asked questions for OpenShot Video Editor.

OpenShot Video Editor offers the following pricing plans:

  • Pricing model: Free Version
  • Free Trial: Not Available

OpenShot Video Editor is free and open-source software.

OpenShot Video Editor has the following typical customers:

Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

OpenShot Video Editor supports the following languages:

Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese

OpenShot Video Editor supports the following devices:

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OpenShot Video Editor offers the following support options:

Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support

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