OpenShot has been “affectionately” nicknamed OpenShut and CrashShot due to its somewhat …temperamental nature.Īnyone working on important edits or big projects will be reassured to know that the open source video editor now keeps a small backup of recent save points. This is a particularly big advancement as it means, for the first time ever, OpenShot can open and save to Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere Pro compatible files (though naturally not all features are supported).Īs this supports basic timeline data like video and audio files, clips, tracks, and keyframes it could, in theory, make collaborative and cross-platform workflows a little tighter. Open Final Cut Pro & Premiere Pro FilesĪmong other OpenShot 2.5 feature is i mport and export support for. And since not every graphics card out there supports video encoding and decoding, you might not have access to it at all. The switch to GPU processing will yield up to 30-40% faster performance when working MP4/H.264 videos.įor now the feature isn’ considered stable and you have to enable it manually. Yes, despite being a media-intensive application OpenShot uses software decoding and encoding during edits. The headline change is the introduction of ‘experimental’ hardware acceleration. OpenShot 2.5.0 is the latest stable release of the Open Shot video editor for Windows, macOS and Linux and to say it’s “packed” full of features is a bit of an understatement! Hardware Acceleration

Its simple, straightforward interface makes it relatively easy to use, even by those with little video editing experience.Īdd to that a decent set of effects and transitions, a halfway decent title tool, ‘green screen’ compositing and key frame animations and you’ve got a well rounded bit of video editing software.Īnd the latest release takes things even further. OpenShot is, of course, one of the best known Linux video editors - and it’s also one of the best loved.

Openshot speed up video