OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually Usable Linux Video Editor
It's one of the five features we desperately want in Ubuntu: a video editor that the average user can stitch together simple movies with. OpenShot 1.0 is mostly there.
That's not to say the interface has much polish, or that you don't have to install non-free multimedia codecs in your Linux system beforehand. Then again, unless you're a FLAC/OGG music purist, you probably already installed your MP3 and other file supports.
I had a video project to assemble over the weekend—combining a recorded audio file and still pictures into a video file that could be imported into iMovie, or watched on a standard PC laptop.
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The author of this review, Kevin Purdy, is absolutely correct about Openshot, not perfectly polished, but easy to work.
In my own testing, Openshot opened, played and allowed me to edit and save (in an open format) a home-made video. No movie player app would play it without stumbling, except VLC. The other two video editors I tried, pitivi and kdenlive either would not even open it, or could not play the video part.
What Purdy did not mention is the easy to follow manual included with Openshot.
While I discovered much I could do with Openshot, I did not find the "Burns-effect" the panning, zooming mode. Otherwise, it is great with still photos!