Introduction

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning, open-source video editor, available on Linux, Mac, and Windows. OpenShot can create stunning videos, films, and animations with an easy-to-use interface and rich feature-set.

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Features

  • Free & open-source (licensed under GPLv3)

  • Cross-platform (Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, and Windows)

  • Easy-to-use user interface (designed for beginners, built-in tutorial)

  • Supports most video, audio, & image formats (based on FFmpeg)

  • Includes popular video profiles & presets (over 70+ profiles, including YouTube HD)

  • Advanced timeline (including drag and drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)

  • Advanced clips (including trimming, alpha, scaling, location, rotation, and shearing)

  • Real-time preview (multi-threaded, and optimized for performance)

  • Simple & advanced views (or customize your own unique view)

  • Powerful, curve-based Keyframe animations (linear, Bézier, and constant interpolation)

  • Compositing, image overlays, watermarks, & transparency

  • Unlimited tracks / layers (support for complex projects)

  • Video transitions, masks, & wipes (grayscale images and animated masks)

  • Video & audio effects (including brightness, gamma, hue, chroma key / blue screen, and more)

  • Image sequences & 2D animations (001.png, 002.png, 003.png, etc…)

  • Blender 3D integration (animated 3D title templates)

  • Vector file support & editing (SVG / scalable vector graphics used for titles and credits)

  • Audio mixing, waveform, & editing

  • Emojis (open-source stickers & artwork included)

  • Frame accuracy (step through each frame of video)

  • Time mapping & speed changes (slow/fast, forward/backward)

  • Advanced AI (motion tracking, object detection, & stabilization effects)

  • Credits & captions (scrolling and animated)

  • Hardware accelerated (encoding & decoding supports NVIDIA, AMD, Intel and more)

  • Import & export (EDL and Final Cut Pro formats, supports most video editors)

  • Desktop integration (drag and drop from file managers)

  • JSON project format (compatible with OpenShot Cloud API for cloud-based automation)

  • Customizable keyboard shortcuts

  • Translations (available in 100+ languages)

  • Community support (Join our community to ask questions and discuss topics)

  • Professional support: Schedule a call

Screenshot

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System Requirements

Video editing benefits from modern, multi-core CPUs with fast clock speeds (GHz), large amounts of memory, and fast hard disk drives. Basically, you want the best computer you can afford when video editing. Here are the minimum system requirements:

TL;DR

Most computers manufactured after 2017 will run OpenShot

Minimum Specifications

  • 64-bit Operating System (Linux, OS X, Chrome OS, Windows 7/8/10/11)

  • Multi-core processor with 64-bit support

    • Minimum cores: 2 (recommended: 6+ cores)

    • Minimum threads: 4 (recommended: 6+ threads)

    • Minimum turbo clock speed: 2.7 Ghz (recommended: 3.4+ Ghz)

  • 4GB of RAM (16+ GB recommended)

  • 1 GB of hard-disk space for installation & usage (recommended: 50+ GB available hard-disk space for media, videos, images, and storage)

  • Optional: Solid-state drive (SSD), if utilizing disk-caching add an additional 10GB of hard-disk space

License

OpenShot Video Editor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

OpenShot Video Editor is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.