Software » Video Editors » OpenShot Video Editor 3.3.0

v3.3.0

Highlights & Features:
New Default Theme: "Cosmic Dusk" brings a modern and stylish look to OpenShot.
Comprehensive Ripple Editing Improvements:
Playhead Alignment: The playhead now aligns automatically after ripple slice operations, keeping your edits precise.
Ripple Slice Enhancements: Ripple slicing supports multi-selection across different layers, allowing simultaneous slicing and realignment.
Ripple Delete Optimization: Deleting clips with ripple now adjusts the timeline seamlessly, preventing gaps and maintaining synchronization.
Ripple Select: Added Alt+Click for ripple selection, allowing users to select all items to the right of the clicked position, making timeline adjustments faster and more intuitive.
Keyboard Shortcut for Ripple Delete: Introduced Shift+Delete for quick ripple deletion, streamlining the editing process.
Focus Improvements: UI focus stays consistent on the timeline after ripple operations, ensuring uninterrupted workflow.
Recovery Menu: Restore previous project versions with a streamlined recovery menu, including timestamps for easy navigation.
Wayland-Compatible Color Picker: New color picker supports Wayland, ensuring compatibility with modern Linux systems.
Tutorial Dock Enhancements: Enhanced design and navigation with left/right arrows and word-wrap for wide translations.
Updated About Dialog: Redesigned layout with Cosmic Dusk theme alignment, word-wrap support, and a "Copy Version Info" option.
Zoom Slider Improvements: Enhanced zoom precision, frame boundary banding, and seamless navigation along the timeline.
Copy/Paste Overhaul: Smarter copy-paste for effects and timeline elements, with improved clipboard management.
Faster Timeline Updates: Significant performance boost when handling large projects or batch operations.
Audio Buffer Size Control: Customizable audio buffer size in preferences for optimal playback on various systems.
Track Resizing Fixes: Improved resizing behavior with better snapping to FPS precision.
Multi-Drag and Drop: Simplified handling of large clip batches with faster operations and better snapping.
Keyboard Shortcut Enhancements: Refined shortcuts for improved consistency and usability, aligned with industry standards.
Export Settings Refinements: Persistent export settings tied to projects, with "Restore Defaults" option.
No More Timeline Gaps: Automatically fixes tiny gaps during profile changes or exports to different FPS settings.
Translation Updates: Comprehensive updates to support additional languages and improve existing ones.
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openshot-qt Changelog (Version: 3.3.0)
8672b30 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Improving docs for image sequences HEAD, origin/release-20241221
dda4ff0 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Change default theme to 'Cosmic Dusk'
b3a8df4 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Adding chat badge to README.md
20bc9d0 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Allow word-wrap on About dialog, for translations which are much wider than English
131905c 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Bump version to 3.3.0 (minimum libopenshot 0.4.0, minimum libopenshot-audio 0.4.0)
7b20814 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Updating supporters / credits for all donors and supporters
a69ce39 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Updating all translations
ae80263 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5676 from OpenShot/improved-tutorial-style origin/develop
6b583c3 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5675 from OpenShot/wayland-color-picker
61be0e1 2024-12-21 Jonathan Thomas Support left and right arrows on tutorial dock, depending on screen/monitor size and widget position.
9ff9946 2024-12-20 Jonathan Thomas Fix detection of tutorial widget positions and don't show tutorial dock until after window is shown.
270868e 2024-12-20 Jonathan Thomas Adding Window Title to color picker. Works in all languages. "OpenShot: Pick Screen Color"
20db05d 2024-12-20 Jonathan Thomas Fix High DPI issues with new color picker
0a2be85 2024-12-20 Jonathan Thomas Fixing a regression which caused a window border around the tutorial. Also improving tutorial style for all themes (i.e. new arrow, larger font)
76068c3 2024-12-19 Jonathan Thomas Adding new Wayland compatible color picker, which allows color picking only from the OpenShot main window.
77b9932 2024-12-19 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5672 from OpenShot/new-about-dialog
0712036 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Small adjustment to Cosmic Dusk top toolbar padding.
0f57a61 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Adding "Copy Version Info" context menu to About dialog.
3f78655 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas New design and layout for the About dialog to match Cosmic Dusk design.
9f7e0ee 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5671 from OpenShot/improved-theme-combobox
57a9c1b 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Make cancel button on save as prompt appear with no icon on the Cosmic Dusk theme.
a866439 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Fix regression caused by changing tabWidget name to exportTabs.
f1b4a1e 2024-12-18 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5670 from OpenShot/improved-ripple-slice
e7d7c74 2024-12-17 Jonathan Thomas Fix main window top toolbar style for Cosmic Dusk - remove white gradient hover.
9ed5741 2024-12-17 Jonathan Thomas Fixed tall combo lists (i.e. profile list) from auto closing after you click on it on GTK+ and Linux with the style: combobox-popup: 0;. Also includes a few other style fixes for Cosmic Dusk theme.
b2addfb 2024-12-17 Jonathan Thomas Removing unneeded profile adding code (which caused lots of issues)
ad8f2ec 2024-12-17 Jonathan Thomas Display properties dock if keyframe or effect selected on timeline origin/improved-ripple-slice
6dfa354 2024-12-17 Jonathan Thomas Improved ripple slice to jump playhead when ripple slice (Keep Right) is selected. We now seek the playhead to the new start position.
1fc91df 2024-12-13 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5639 from OpenShot/recovery-menu
f83da8b 2024-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Improved recovery documentation
03ddec7 2024-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Also added documentation about zipping/unzipping recovery files.
7fff145 2024-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Adding a lock around saving projects, and moving the save project to it's own thread (to not block the UI).
3ff6c62 2024-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Add datetime string to recovery options, to make it easier to distinguish between similar versions
3f0aa6a 2024-12-12 Jonathan Thomas Adding documentation for the Recovery menu.
a5d75f0 2024-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Adding translations to Recovery menu items (seconds ago, minutes ago, etc...) and expanding the time units to include seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years.
18739a6 2024-12-11 Jonathan Thomas Adding recovery menu items to restore previous project versions. Also, saving new recovery projects on ALL saves. Moving saving recovery to a separate thread to not block the UI. Zipping up all recovery projects to save space, and adding new schedule to keep a certain # of recent vs historical project files.
eaaa286 2024-12-09 Jonathan Thomas Removing console from CX_Freeze script, and resuming use of Win32GUI
d889b62 2024-12-09 Jonathan Thomas Adding additional documentation and troubleshooting steps for audio buffer size.
9057b39 2024-12-09 Jonathan Thomas Adding audio buffer size to preferences, with reasonable default limits (128-4096). 512 should be a good default for most systems. This will allow users to customize how much audio buffer must be filled prior to audio playback for their systems. Updating docs also, with a description of this setting.
341978b 2024-12-09 Jonathan Thomas Experimental base to console, for debug output on win 11
7215088 2024-10-12 Jonathan Thomas Adding recovery menu to OpenShot for recovering previous auto-save files
5ed8300 2024-10-12 Jonathan Thomas Merge pull request #5634 from OpenShot/choose-profile-v2
898f8f7 2024-10-12 Jonathan Thomas Updates to documentation of Profiles... some Raffi edits/feedback.
d533abd 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Small refactor of the selection logic in Profile editor, to clear the selection when calling self.select_profile()
a1ab05a 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Don't use current path when validating unique profile description (to allow for editing a profile)
ea26630 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Filter clip reader updates to only ones matching the current file id.
50cf0a2 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Merge branch 'develop' into choose-profile-v2
837056a 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Fixing small issue with "Create Profile" context menu, to correctly show the "Create Profile" title.
c708418 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Small update to user-guide docs about "Set as Default Profile"
3017b38 2024-10-11 Jonathan Thomas Adding new validation logic to prevent deletion of custom profile which is currently used or the default project (in settings). Also validating custom profile has a unique description. Adding icons to Profile context menu. Added a new "Set as Default Profile" context menu option. Updated translations.
5cdefbf 2024-10-10 Jonathan Thomas Select newly inserted rows in Profile model/view. This fixes a bug when adding a new custom profile and the context menu not updating correctly. Also, fixed the Profile comparison to use "is" since we just modified the Swig bindings for Profile equality operators.
2845489 2024-10-10 Jonathan Thomas Adding "Choose Profile" context menu, Profile Editor (Duplicate/Edit/Delete) options - to the user guide documentation.
afefac5 2024-10-10 Jonathan Thomas Refactor audio-only files changing sizes when profile change is detected, so it can support undo/redo.
8c39d14 2024-10-10 Jonathan Thomas Simplify the profile creation and equality checking (in context menu) to use the C++/Swig operator
58f50fe 2024-10-09 Jonathan Thomas Fixing small typo in docs
68fd550 2024-10-09 Jonathan Thomas Adding new Profile Editor. New context menu options to Edit, Duplicate, and Delete custom profiles. Updated translations (new string...

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)