A frame from the video also can be saved as an image. The right pane, where the project video is displayed, has controls for video playback, fast forwarding, and rewinding through the project. There are items directly above the pane that are associated with each tab. Click one and the items in the pane changes. I’m going to load PiTiVi, Blender, OpenShot, and others onto Fedora, see which is the most no-nonsense way to just get editing done, and report back.Below the left pane there are four tabs. I’ve got a big stack of videos awaiting editing, and now I’m shooting more at NAMM. Not only does it mean you don’t have to pay for the software, but just as importantly, you can focus straight on quick and easy editing based on a robust back-end engine. And while this tool unmistakably does far less than a lot of its competitors, that’s not necessarily a bad thing. That’s thanks to the power of the open source ffmpeg video library and free software. I recently had a video I’d generated with Processing that somehow got mal-formed.

No, what’s important is that this is a quick, open source editor with an ffmpeg that can go where other video editors can’t. Nor would I even to go quite as far as the optimism of the Open Video Alliance blog, who say “this will hopefully lower many barriers, monetary and technical, allowing amateurs and budding professionals to try their hand in creating amazing videos.” (That may well be, but let’s get it all working first.) (Happily, you can switch that off and get a more grown-up GNOME look instead.)īut that’s not what’s important.

It’s a bit like the open source answer to iMovie and Windows Movie Maker it’s a basic, accessible video editor, and even has some retro-Apple Mac Aqua-styled graphics theme. OpenShot Video Editor, free software for Linux, has just hit 1.0. Open source video editing, after a long, slow start, is starting to mature far more quickly. Yes, I’ll be making some screenshots, too, an with the less-silly-looking GNOME/GTK theme.

I’m sorry this is just a home movie of a dog and not something cooler.

Openshot editing