Open-Source Video Editor “OpenShot 2.5” Released

February 8, video editor “OpenShot” project released “OpenShot 2.5.0”.  There are improvements on how well it works with other software, and on data recovery feature.

OpenShot is an open-source video editor that runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux.  It supports various movie, audio, and image formats.  It is equipped with features for video editing, effects, creating animation, and more.

OpenShot 2.5 is the stable release following v2.4, released in 2017.  It includes numerous new features, and they call it their “largest release yet.”

Although being experimental, it supports hardware acceleration.  On a system with an applicable encoder/decoder, it can handle encoding and decoding without using the CPU.  This will bring about performance improvement, by up to 30-40%.

It also supports importing various metadata in EDL or XML formats, which are used in Apple’s “Final Cut Pro”, and exporting from OpenShot in EDL/XML format.  Also included is the support for file format used in Blender.

Keyframe system has been rewritten to improve performance.  The keyframe system would sometimes slow down when there were too many or long clips.  By rewriting it, now it delivers real-time interpolated values, and the whole value set no longer needs to be cached.

To protect users from losing their data, there is a new feature that recovers previous saves, and also included is the auto-backup feature.  It now creates the entire copy of .osp project in the recovery folder before every save, and that allows copying the old version into the save folder.  It may not be perfect, but it offers more options to recover data and prevents users from losing large mount of data.

There are many more feature improvements, for example the thumbnail generation has been improved.

OpenShot
https://www.openshot.org/