Highlights & Features: Updated builds: a small maintenance release rebuilt on new runners with updated FFmpeg dependencies and stronger packaging checks. GPU exports: added AMD AMF and HEVC NVENC/QSV presets, sharper GPU badges on high-DPI displays, and validated GPU alternatives before falling back to CPU encoding. Export targets and badges now follow the actual encoder. Reliability fixes: improv…
Highlights & Features Native text editing: Add and style text directly in the video preview, with no external editor required. Auto-Optimize: Automatically prepare demanding 4K+ footage for high-performance editing while preserving original media for export. CLI automation: Build, edit, animate, and export videos with the command-line interface, scripts, or AI agents such as Claude Code and Codex.…
Highlights & Features: Upgraded Razor tool with source-frame previews, snapping, removal shading, and ripple cuts that close gaps on the same track. Improved timeline navigation with persistent clip titles and effect controls, clearer zoom-slider handles, and more consistent thumbnails. Faster color and keyframe editing, more responsive trim previews, and smoother live transform adjustments. Fixed…
Highlights & Features: New Color View with color wheels, curves, LUT controls, presets, and live video scopes New Recording View for screen, webcam, microphone, and system-audio capture Redesigned native Qt timeline with smoother zooming, editable timecode, and improved keyframe controls New clip menus and creative presets for motion, camera moves, color, film looks, lighting, and audio Local AI m…
Highlights & Features: Optimize Video adds built-in proxy editing for smoother playback and previews Improved timeline zooming with smoother navigation and better centered zoom behavior Multi-selection trimming makes resizing and re-timing aligned clips easier Enhanced ComfyUI tools add depth, lines, and reference image workflows User Interface Scale makes OpenShot easier to use on different displ…
Highlights & Features: New default timeline: The new QWidget timeline is now the default, with much smoother zooming, scrolling, dragging, trimming, snapping, and multi-clip editing, especially on larger projects. New keyframe panel and major timeline polish: The keyframe panel is now part of the default editing experience, with smoother dragging, better selection behavior, improved snapping, high…
Highlights & Features: New Crop workflow with interactive crop handles + crop context menu (keeps crop/transform behavior in sync) New Timing mode toggle for quick drag-to-retime editing (plus better real-time preview during retime) Draggable keyframes (timeline drag + improved keyframe panel) with better snapping/precision to the FPS grid Big upgrades to the Experimental QWidget Timeline (faster…
Highlights & Features: New Default Theme: "Cosmic Dusk" brings a modern and stylish look to OpenShot. Comprehensive Ripple Editing Improvements: Playhead Alignment: The playhead now aligns automatically after ripple slice operations, keeping your edits precise. Ripple Slice Enhancements: Ripple slicing supports multi-selection across different layers, allowing simultaneous slicing and realignment.…
Highlights & Features: UI/UX Improvements Prevent freezes on Windows: switch video preview widget background color to use stylesheet and palette. Fixed background theme color on the preview/split clip dialog. Theme and Window Management Refactored ThemeManager for improved thread safety and to fix Windows launch freezes. Delay showing the main window until all themes are fully applied. Restored ge…
Highlights & Features: Large Theme & User Experience refactor (Added new Retro & Cosmic Dusk theme) Improved Timeline Snapping and behaviors New Remove Gap feature (to remove unwanted gaps between clips) Improved Split Clip and Preview dialog functionality New Playhead and Marker icons (for all themes) Support for Blender 4.1, and improved Blender animations Use friendly name on timeline (i.e. whe…
Highlights & Features: Bumping version to 3.1.1, min libopenshot dependency to 0.3.2 Prevent freeze on launch (in Windows - when your sample-rate in OpenShot does not match the host OS sample-rate) Fix duplicate Profile name bug (causing an issue when exporting and re-opening a project with specific profile names) Adding Profile search button to Preferences (for easier filtering and searching for…
Highlights & Features: Bumping version to 3.1.0 (min libopenshot version to 0.3.1) Improved Profiles (400+ Export Profiles, New Profile UI, and more) Improved Undo / Redo system, includes grouping actions (i.e. single undo for split-clips and similar multi-step edits) Improved Preview & Split Clip dialog (correct aspect ratio, correct sample rate) libopenshot Improvements: Huge Time Re-mapping upd…
Highlights & Features: Bumping version to 3.0.0 (minimum libopenshot dependency to 0.3.0) Huge PTS-related improvements (smoother playback, better at finding missing frames, better video compatibility) Huge cache improvements (new cache preferences, pre-roll, ability to clear cache) Huge improvement to audio waveform support (faster waveforms, improved algorithm, more accurate, caching, and optimi…
Highlights & Features: Auto migration of Crop keyframes from 2.5.1 projects (adds a crop effect and sets the equivellent keyframes). 100% backwards compatibility. Title Editor: TAB between fields Fix Windows drive letter regression, where saving projects on a different drive than the assets would cause corruption. 2.6.1 will also repairs any corruption detected in *.osp project files. Fix many bro…