Here is how to install OpenShot video editor 2023 on Ubuntu Linux. OpenShot 3.0.0 brings Blender 3.3 support and YouTube 2K, YouTube 4K, MKV (h.264) presets.
OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source video editor for Linux. As OpenShot is based on the powerful FFmpeg library, the video editor can use and work upon any FFmpeg format.
The OpenShot video editor comes with a powerful key frame animation framework, capable of an unlimited number of key frames and animation possibilities. Its advanced video editing timeline feature dragging and dropping, resizing clips, zooming in and out, alignment, preset animations and settings, slicing, snapping, and more.
OpenShot 3.0.0 Released! Multi Clips Export, 4K Support [Ubuntu PPA]
Important Changes an Features Released with OpenShot 3.0.0
- Bumping version to 3.0.0 (minimum libopenshot dependency to 0.3.0)
- Huge PTS-related improvements (smoother playback, better at finding missing frames, better video compatibility)
- Huge cache improvements (new cache preferences, pre-roll, ability to clear cache)
- Huge improvement to audio waveform support (faster waveforms, improved algorithm, more accurate, caching, and optimizations)
- Huge memory improvements (fixed leaks, cleared unneeded memory)
- Huge snapping improvements (while moving & trimming clips and transitions)
- Huge visual update to keyframe icons (circle, diamond, square)
- Huge improvements to User-Guide (new topics, updated pics, PDF support)
- Huge improvements to stability (lots of crashes fixed)
- New High DPI Support (4k monitor support, improved assets)
- Improved location preferences (for default folders – recent vs project)
- New Export Clips feature: render one or more clips into their own video files (in their original profile / format)
- Added support for Blender 3.3.x (and many other blender-related improvements)
- Improved Animated Titles to render with project’s FPS (smoother animations)
- Faster clip slicing performance
- Performance improvements for Title Editor (reduce lag while typing)
- Added display for real-time performance metrics
- New export targets: Animated GIF, MP3 (audio only)
- New export presets: YouTube 2K, YouTube 4K, MKV (h.264)
- Support many new image formats
- New chroma key color modes (including BABL extensions in all 3 OSes)
- Many fixes to sorting, including ability to manually sort lists (useful for translations)
- Many fixes to Caption effect & UI (for closed captioning: VTT/Subrip titles)
- Many fixes to translations system
- Improved support for changing file types in file properties dialog
- Updated default OpenShot sample rate to 48000
- Update SVG Title templates to new higher DPI
- Support for previewing anamorphic video profiles
- Updated AppStream XML metadata (Linux app metadata)
- New Linux build server + updated AppImage format
- Support for many new languages
Run the following command in terminal to install OpenShot video editor:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa sudo apt update sudo apt install openshot-qt python3-openshot
You can also download and install the AppImage for OpenShot from https://www.openshot.org/download/