OpenShot 2.4.1 released. Install OpenShot video editor on Linux Ubuntu. OpenShot 2.4.1 with an improved playback and image quality. OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor, with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows.
OpenShot 2.4.1
OpenShot 2.4.1 is the latest release of the OpenShot video editor. It brings the following changes and new features:
- Improved Image Quality – We have improved the image processing pipeline in OpenShot to create sharper images, by switching our image scaling algorithm, and most importantly, only scaling a frame once, as opposed to multiple times (which used to happen in certain scenarios).
- Improved Stability – Right after our previous release (in September 2017) we made some very large changes to libopenshot such as – audio files stopping early, sync/desync issues, videos stopping at 30 minutes (or at an earlier time), opening project files with non-English characters, and more.
Libopenshot (full list of changes)
- More critical sections trying to prevent race conditions on high CPU core systems
- Additional critical sections around adding frame images
- Codec lookup by name in FFmpegWriter, which should solve a few issues (such as xvid support).
- Fixing regression with rotation origin. Things should always rotate around the center of an object (until I add in keyframable anchor points)
- Setting timebase on video stream in FFmpegWriter… a bit experimental
- Improving playback smoothness on high framerate videos, especially when the video frames need to jump forward to keep up with the audio.
- Removing throw statements from header files
- Reducing # of scale operations to 1 per layer on the timeline
- Fixing 16 thread limit on FFmpegReader
- Fixing a cast from long to int64_t
- Updating all “long int” frame number types to int64_t, so all 3 OSes will produce the same depth and precision on frame numbers. This is a big one!
- Removing variable bitrate support (for now), since it causes more problems than it solves.
Openshot-qt (full list of changes)
- Fixing small regression with translation website URLs when using default/en_US
- Fixing small bug in Export dialog where profile and quality get blown away when changing format
- Ignoring history update messages, since libopenshot doesn’t care about them
- Simplifying export progress, reducing # of signals being emitted
- Integrating current language into website URLs and simplifying a few translations (removing HTML tags)
- Removing unneeded UTF8 encode method, which caused certain project paths to fail when loading (solves crash on Windows trying to open non-English project file paths)
- Fixing a big race condition on initial launch of OpenShot, which causes certain JavaScript calls to fail (so default profiles, snapping mode, and few other things set on launch would fail sometimes)
- Adding keyboard shortcuts for toggling ‘Transform’ and ‘Insert Keyframe’. This improves the animation work-flow, and no longer requires a bunch of mouse clicks / context menus for animations.
- Preventing overwriting an input file with the export dialog, and updating export progress on export window title
- Updating translations and contributor credits
Install OpenShot 2.4.1 on Ubuntu
Run the following commands in terminal to install OpenShot 2.4.1 on Ubuntu:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt