
About OpenShot Video Editor
OpenShot Video Editor is open-source software designed to help businesses trim, slice, edit, and mix audios and videos in various formats on a drag-and-drop interface. It provides 3D animation capabilities, which let administrators utilize effects to adjust colors, sizes, length, and text across video projects.
It includes an audio editing module, which enables businesses to visualize audio files and render waveforms as part of videos. Professionals can use a special effects engine to modify, reverse, slow down, or speed up motion in videos.
Other features include real-time preview, compositing, title templates, clip resizing, video transitions, desktop integration, keyframe animations, and more. Users can create personalized SVG vector titles or choose from predefined templates to adjust the titles' color, font, and text in the editing panel.
Key benefits of OpenShot Video Editor
» Cross-Platform
OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor supporting Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS. Get started and download our installer today at https://www.openshot.org/download.
» Trim & Slice
Quickly trim your videos and find those perfect moments.
» Animation & Keyframes
Using our robust animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in your video project.
» Unlimited Tracks
Add layers as you need them for watermarks, background videos, audio tracks, and more.
» Video Effects
Using our video effects engine, remove the background from your video, invert the colors, adjust brightness, and more.
» Audio Waveforms
Visualize your audio files as waveforms, and even output the waveforms as part of your video.
» Title Editor
Adding titles to your video has never been easier. Use one of our templates or make your own.
» 3D Animations
Render beautiful 3D animated titles and effects, such as snow, lens flares, or flying text.
» Slow Motion & Time Effects
Control the power of time, reversing, slowing down, and speeding up video. Use a preset or animate the playback speed and direction.
» Edit Video
Drag and drop video, audio, or images from your file manager into OpenShot. It is that easy for anyone to get started with video editing.
» 70+ Languages
OpenShot is available in many languages and can be translated online with LaunchPad.
» Simple User Interface
We have designed OpenShot to be the easiest and friendliest video editing software! Try it and see for yourself.
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- Industry: Chemicals
- Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Incredible Video Editing Software
Reviewed on 10/5/2021
I always use Openshot video editor when i need to make some exciting edited videos. The software is...
I always use Openshot video editor when i need to make some exciting edited videos. The software is very easy to use and available on free of cost. Openshot Video Editor supports multiple formats and can be easily downloaded from their website. My overall experience with this software is very amazing and i strongly recommend Openshot video editor to the professionals who are looking for exciting video editing experience.
Pros
The videos can be edited in a very simple way by just drag and drop and you can add animations, watermark, sound effects and many other exciting things in your videos. I am using this software for last 3 years and always found it very helpful and full of exciting features. In Openshot video editor you can also trim your videos and add flying text and 3D animations. You can also speed up and slow down your videos according to your need. The interface is so simple and understandable one can easily use this software without any problem.
Cons
As of my experience i have never face any difficulty in Openshot video editor. The software always provide me all the necessary tools and features which i need and to make my videos beautiful and colorful.
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
OpenShot - Power and Professionalism
Reviewed on 3/5/2022
For a small business, and even personal use in the form of social media videos, promotional videos...
For a small business, and even personal use in the form of social media videos, promotional videos I think it's brilliant software. The fact that it's free it's amazing and it doesn't sacrifice quality in the form of having an extensive list of effects and transitions. I find it easy and fast to make videos that look professional, make me look professional online. If you ever get stuck with how to use a feature, there are lots of tutorials online, as well as the built-in tutorial. Really stunning editor that I'll recommend to anyone wanting to make their business's online video presence comes across professional and polished.
Pros
The first feature that has to be mentioned is that this is free software, and that it offers being able to work in 4K. I am impressed that the media library has so many options, that include built in effects, transitions, ability to use titles for vectors and fonts. It's collaboration with Blender means it has those sleek looking 3D effects and titles built in as well, a nice quick way to add something extra to your project to make it stand out.
The interface is clean, simple and easy to get used to and adjust to for seamless editing, as well it being free to edit as many clips as you need to, no limits there. I like that it doesn't have a steep learning curve that most video editors do, but it still allows you to do professional editing as you would on a premium software, and advanced edits. I'm transitioning into teaching online, and I've used it to make my own promotional videos for various companies. It's always a pleasure to use as I can make changes fast, add an effect, sometimes play around with what would look good, and not have to dedicate hours to editing anything. When I'm done it looks polished and professional, as if I had used a high-end editor, which I appreciate as building a small business means you don't want to go spending extensively on software.
Cons
I think that if you need to edit a whole movie, it may give you issues with loading, with lag. I noticed that if I tried to import large files, a few hours of a holiday video, that there was an issue with it freezing. However, for most of my work I don't need to edit hours of footage, so I didn't really have an issue with this. I think for most people who are making social media videos, promotional material for their business like I do, even longer advertisment-type edits, OpenShot is perfect for our business or personal editing needs.
- Industry: Religious Institutions
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Free Open-Source Video Editor thats pretty good
Reviewed on 23/7/2019
its been nice. Trying to dive in head first without tutorials or learning any tips and tricks was...
its been nice. Trying to dive in head first without tutorials or learning any tips and tricks was difficult. It's not as intuitive as many editors are but its a free open source software so...it is what it is.
Pros
For someone who doesn't have an unending flow of cash. A free reliable video editor is a tough thing to find. Couple that with the fact that its open source, and ever improving. OpenShot is a great option for those on a strict budget.
Other than the fact that its free, it does most everything you'd expect out of a video editor. Also with online tutorials, learning is easy and free as well!
Cons
obviously not as comprehensive as say Adobe Premiere. But unless you have an extra arm and a leg, that can break the bank easily. Especially with the way children these days are mesmerized by the thought of being a YouTuber, if you're a parent, OpenShot is a great alternative.
Not as intuitive either...big turn off for video editing.

- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Professional and Open-Source Video Editor
Reviewed on 18/4/2020
I have used the software to edit my own personal videos. Also, I have edited the videos of my...
I have used the software to edit my own personal videos. Also, I have edited the videos of my clients. The software has helped me to create compositions from scratch to the advanced level. No doubt, OpenShot is the really simple and powerful video editor. I really like this software, because I have created a number of stunning videos using the OpenShot. I can export the video in different formats. So sometimes I export or save my work as a MP4 file and sometimes I use other formats. So my overall experience with this video editor is really incredible.
Pros
OpenShot is the best and perfect video editor. We can download the software free of cost because this is open-source software. This software is very easy to learn because the dashboard interface is very simple. We can easily understand the features and functions of different panels. From the effects and transitions panel, we can drag and drop beautiful effects in our timeline. We can create a lot of layers for your different videos and soundtracks. We can also apply different beautiful animations like fade, bounce, slide and more.
Cons
I would really like if I will able to find more plugins or templates on the official website of OpenShot. No doubt, there are hundreds of effects, features, and transitions that we can also simply apply from the software. Only if they add some external plugins in the website, that will be really Awesome. So for me, all other features of OpenShot Video Editor are really fabulous.

- Industry: Apparel & Fashion
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
OpenShot Video Editor
Reviewed on 19/11/2022
This is so easy to use and edit. Plus it's completely free and I love that.
This is so easy to use and edit. Plus it's completely free and I love that.
Pros
OpenShot Video Editor is a powerful video editor that allows you to create quality compositions using photo, audio and video files. It is a fun and intuitive video editor with a ton of great features. The fact that it is open source makes it a great tool that can be used by everyone. I have used it in a number of projects, the most recent being a video recording of a conference I hosted.
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this software is just great and it is totally free.
OpenShot Video Editor FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for OpenShot Video Editor.Q. What type of pricing plans does OpenShot Video Editor offer?
OpenShot Video Editor offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
OpenShot Video Editor is free and open-source software.
Q. Who are the typical users of OpenShot Video Editor?
OpenShot Video Editor has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does OpenShot Video Editor support?
OpenShot Video Editor supports the following languages:
Arabic, Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
Q. Does OpenShot Video Editor support mobile devices?
OpenShot Video Editor supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does OpenShot Video Editor integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations OpenShot Video Editor has
Q. What level of support does OpenShot Video Editor offer?
OpenShot Video Editor offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Phone Support
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