Not a few video editors are available for Linux, but fewer are able to achieve some popularity. One of them is the protagonist of this article, which this weekend has released the version Open Shot 2.5.0 to introduce exciting new features such as hardware acceleration and video editing enhancements. These improvements have also reached other operating systems, such as macOS and Windows.
In the list of news, which you can read in the release note of OpenShot 2.5.0, they also mention another important news for users of OpenShot Blender, as support for v2.8 has been included onwards. Below you have a summary of the most outstanding novelties that have come along with this launch that took place on Saturday the 8th.
Highlights of OpenShot 2.5.0
- Support for hardware encoding and decoding.
- Keyframe performance improvements. Now it is much faster.
- Ability to export and import EDL and XML files (Premiere and Final Cut Pro).
- The generation of previews has been greatly improved. Now use a local HTTP server.
- Support for Blender 2.8 onwards.
- New ability to recover previous saves and improved automatic backup support.
- Compatibility and improvements in SVG.
- Improvements in the previews window.
- Improvements when exporting.
- Now you can disable metrics until we enable them.
- Many improvements in CMake.
- Cross-platform improvements.
Interested users can download the new version from the official download website of the project, available here. What Linux users will download at the link above is the AppImage version of the software. In the next few hours they should update the flatpak package in Flathub and much later they will update the version of the official repositories in many Linux distributions. There is also the possibility of installing it from an official project repository, for which we will have to open a terminal and write the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openshot-qt
If you try the new version, feel free to leave your experiences in the comments.