Our Features

Cross-Platform

OpenShot is a cross-platform video editor, with support for Linux, Mac, and Windows. Get started and download our installer today.

Trim & Slice

Quickly trim down your videos, and find those perfect moments. OpenShot has many easy ways to cut your video.

Animation & Keyframes

Using our powerful animation framework, you can fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in your video project.

Unlimited Tracks

Add as many layers as you need 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's that easy to get started video editing.

70+ Languages

OpenShot is available in many different languages, and can be translated online with LaunchPad.

Simple User Interface

We have designed OpenShot to be the easiest and friendliest video editing software ever! Give it a try and see for yourself.

• MAIN INTERFACE
• TRACKS OVERVIEW
• 3D ANIMATIONS
• ANIMATION OVERVIEW
• BUILT-IN TUTORIAL
• SPLIT VIDEO
• TRANSFORM INTERFACE
• CURVE PRESETS
• EXPORT INTERFACE
• ADD FILES TO TIMELINE
• FILE MENU
• FILE PROPERTIES
• PREVIEW PROFILES
• ADD FILES
• EXPORT VIDEO
• ADD MUSIC
• PREVIEW VIDEO
• DROP FILES ON TIMELINE
• TITLE EDITOR INTERFACE
• TRANSITION MENU
• CLIP EFFECTS
• CLIP OVERVIEW
• CLIP PRESET MENU

About OpenShot

OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows. We designed OpenShot to be an easy to use, quick to learn, and surprisingly powerful video editor. Easily cut, slice, and edit any video or film. Check out the full feature list, view screenshots, or watch videos of OpenShot in action!

Origin Story

The dramatic story of how and why OpenShot was created, is best understood by reading: Our Story.

Creator & Lead Developer

OpenShot was created in August 2008, by Jonathan Thomas, a software developer from North Texas (USA). However, Jonathan is now assisted by many key developers: Meet the Developers. In 2012, OpenShot Studios, LLC was incorporated by Jonathan Thomas, and all copyright and trademark properties were transferred to this new company, to better protect the interests of each contributor. Soon after, OpenShot Studios joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), in order to strengthen its ability to protect the contributors and source-code.

Programming Language & Dependencies

OpenShot is written in a few different programming languages. The interface is built with Python and PyQt5. Our video processing backend (libopenshot) is built in C++, and utilizes FFmpeg. Out interactive drag-n-drop timeline is built with HTML5, JavaScript, and AngularJS. Many of our advanced 3D effects and animations are powered by Blender.

Operating Systems

OpenShot is available for Linux, OS X, and Windows. Check out the download page for more details.

Licensing Information

OpenShot Video Editor™ is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

Download OpenShot

There are many different ways to download and install OpenShot. We have a universal Linux AppImage, which supports most desktop versions of Linux. We also have OS X and Windows installers. Download Now.

Contact Us

There are many ways to contact the OpenShot team, including email, IRC, and Facebook. For details on how to contact us, visit our Contact Us page.