[p2p-research] OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually Usable Linux Video Editor

[Ryan]

  Sent to you by Ryan via Google Reader: OpenShot 1.0 Is an Actually
Usable Linux Video Editor via Lifehacker: top by Kevin Purdy on 1/25/10

Linux/Live CD/DVD: It's one of the five features we desperately want in
Ubuntu: a video editor that the average user can stitch together simple
movies with. OpenShot 1.0 is mostly there.

That's not to say the interface has much polish, or that you don't have
to install non-free multimedia codecs in your Linux system beforehand.
Then again, unless you're a FLAC/OGG music purist, you probably already
installed your MP3 and other file supports.

I had a video project to assemble over the weekend—combining a recorded
audio file and still pictures into a video file that could be imported
into iMovie, or watched on a standard PC laptop. I dropped an audio
file into the left-hand sidebar, and it automatically dropped into one
of the two default tracks. I dragged in a batch of pictures, and I
could then drop them onto the timeline. From there, you can use the
really simple tools—resize, razor, marker, and moving tool—to adjust
and arrange the clips. For my purposes, that was perfect. It was a
return to earlier versions of iMovie, a basic non-linear video editor
for the rest of us.

If you're looking to make very complex transitions or pull precise
transformations on your video, you're still better off with a more
advanced suite on another platform—one of our six best video editing
applications, perhaps. If you're a Linux user and looking to stitch
together a small-scale video project, OpenShot is definitely worth a
look.

OpenShot is a free download, available as a live CD or DVD, as an
Ubuntu/Debian repository, and pre-compiled for Ubuntu and Fedora
systems. If you've given OpenShot a try and like it, or find it lacking
a certain something, tell us about it in the comments.
OpenShot 1.0 Has Arrived! [OpenShot Video Editor]
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