OpenShot 2.2 Released with 4K Video Editing!

OpenShot, my defacto video editor, released version 2.2 with many new features, such as 4k Video Editing, Windows and Mac binaries, just in ime for the new year.

Features

This is a short list of things changed/improved/added in the new OpenShot 2.2.

• Performance / Caching
• Improved Stability
• Keyframe Enhancements
• Error Handling / Reporting
• New Title Templates
• Infrastructure Improvements
• Infrastructure Improvements
  • Selection handles (in progress)
  • Ability to disable unit tests (useful for distros that have a broken unittest++ library)
  • Broken Ubuntu 16.10 PPA fixed
  • Fixed bug when opening .OSP projects via command line
  • Disabled SSL validation (not used anyway)
  • Fixed bug when opening legacy 1.4.x project files that contain UTF-8 encoded characters
  • Preferences now save settings on close of dialog (and persist even if a crash follows)
  • Added FileVersion and custom icon to Windows installer (more polished)
  • Ability to drop a file directly on the timeline (without dropping it in your Project Files first)
  • Fixed bug where the tutorial does not find the correct widget
  • Began work on a new help manual using sphinx (not quite ready yet)
  • New 2.5k and 4k profiles added
  • Fixed margins on OS X and Windows around QDockWidgets
  • Fixed bug when switching between Thumbnail and Detail views
  • Alpha backgrounds have been fixed on all Blender animated titles
  • Recently opened menu logic has been fixed
  • Translations updated for 70+ languages

Install

There are two easy ways to isntall openshot, one, via an AppImage , available: OpenShot-v2.2.0-x86_64.AppImage, or if you like to keep ir oLd Skool, you can use its official PPA:

Video

My current hardware does not have the power to make good use of OpenShot, but the main developer of OpenShot made one himself, displaying the latest features.

Image Gallery

Exporting video is tad to much for my hardware, but, images work just fine.