Easily create video effects with OpenShot
Just how many photos and video clips have you accumulated over the years? Whether you’ve got dedicated equipment or just love snapping and videoing on your phone, now is the time to do something creative with them. OpenShot is a brilliant video-editing tool that’s relatively simple to learn, yet packed with features that enable you to turn last holiday’s rough video footage into a polished movie you’ll be happy to show to friends and family.
In this tutorial, we will run through the program’s main features to help you bring your footage together, edit it, add special effects and titles, and finally export it for sharing with others.
Ubuntu 18.04 offers v2.4.1 in the repositories. You can fetch 2.5.1 from official PPA using:
Otherwise, download the Appimage package; remember you’ll need to chmod -x it to make it executable. Be aware video editing is resource-heavy and OpenShot requires a multi-core 64-bit processor and 4GB of memory. Additionally, if you want to create animated (3D) titles you will also need Blender 2.8 installed. Either download and extract the latest Tar or better use the Snap – that will get updated – either way use the Edit > Preferences menu and point OpenShot to the Blender (and Inkscape) binary, for the Blender snap that is? /snap/blender/37/blender.
Start by dragging and dropping videos, pictures, and audio to the Project
