There are also macOS and Windows versions. DEB format in an Ubuntu PPA, and as a cross-platform AppImage, which you can also run on ChromeOS (so long as it's an x86-based ChromeBook). OpenShot supports an impressive range of platforms. This version is compatible with Blender 3.3 They've also done a lot of work on the program's user guide. The app can now export multiple videos at the same time, and users of HiDPI monitors should benefit from improved 4K display support. The new version claims over 1,000 improvements, and better performance and stability. To be fair, there have been a whole series of interim 2.x releases, the latest of which was version 2.6.1 in September 2021. Its maintainers aren't rushing their job: this week, six and half year later, they just released OpenShot 3.0. OpenShot 2.0 came out in 2016, after 'nearly two and a half years' as our scribe said at the time.

Well, it took the project a while, but they got there. Unfortunately, OpenShot 1.x is looking largely like abandonware at this point. Two of the leading open source video editing programs got new versions in the same week… and they're both cross-platform, so you don't need to be a penguin-botherer to try them.īack in 2015, The Reg offered a roundup of Linux video editing programs, and at the time, noted that a new version of OpenShot had been a long time coming:

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