I tried every possible format out there: XViD, MKV, h.264 in MP4/MOV/MTS. Similarly, the “slicing” options, which automatically cuts into pieces a clip in the timeline, is missing the point: it doesn’t scale, usability-wise. Instead of being able to use keyframes within a clip, we can only use them at beginning or end, and they won’t work with plugins, but only with position of the clip in the preview plane. Where are the 3-way color correctors, contrast, color isolation, etc?Īdditionally, some more advanced features, like keyframes, are architected in a non-useful way. Additionally, speaking for me, the real value of post-processing footage is in color grading, not in these silly and super-cliche spiral transitions that are so ’80s. Just like any other Linux video editor out there it’s using the frei0r third party plugin system, which are basic, and buggy.
There’s also a bug in the AppleTV exporting dialog where it exports at 720/30p, while the AppleTV can’t do more than 720/24p.Įxcept “blur”, “brightness”, “deinterlace”, “gamma”, and “white balance”, most of the rest of the effects are not very useful. There are a number of templates, but the project properties and exporting dialog don’t offer enough flexibility. The developer of OpenShot must optimize his interface to not take unnecessary space.Īnother gripe is the fact that you can’t set the aspect ratio of your footage and de-interlacing project-wide. On an XGA monitor, the preview screen gets reduced to a stamp-size video, while PiTiVi fairs way better in that department. Additionally, the “Video Preview” tab, the preview and timeline toolbar icons, and the “Timeline – Sequence 1” tabs take way too much space. Transitions are working properly if you put the clips on different tracks, but they didn’t do what I needed when I overlapped two clips and placed a transition on top. Right-clicking on the clips in the timeline will load a dialog where you can control speed, plugins, and more. When I loaded the app, I was provided with a pretty traditional and easy to understand video editing playground: files, transitions, effects on one side, a preview window on the right, and the timeline on the bottom with tools such as “cutting”. Given that I’m longing for a usable Linux video editor since 2003, and given that OpenShot version 1.0 had just been released, I naturally gave it a go, by also downloading its provided dependencies on my Ubuntu Linux 9.10. I followed the hype: Reddit, Slashdot’s front page, months of thumbs up on my blog and various video forums by Linux users for OpenShot.
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