Questions tagged [openshot]
A powerful video editor written in Python with Blender3D integration.
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Best Professional Video editor for Linux equivalent to Sony Vegas Pro? [closed]
I have recently moved onto Linux especially Ubuntu, and I'm a video freak, I love editing videos for my youtube channel, Vimeo, Plex, etc and since I'm new to this Open Source World, I cannot decide ...
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Openshot doesn't launch with "failed to import" message
Openshot stopped working on my friend's laptop. Running it in a terminal produces this. I suspect a python library it needs was removed.
------------------------- ERROR 1 -----------------------------...
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Openshot Video/Audio Preview has no Sound
Im trying to edit some videos in Openshot but there's no sound in the preview window. Sound works when I play the videos on VLC however.
The videos play with melt but they also have no sound. Im ...
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How to remove the black bars with Openshot
I downloaded a video from YouTube with Openshot, then I cut little portions of it with the same program. The aspect ratio of the video originally a 16:9) was changed and 4 big black bars were added (2 ...
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OpenShot creates 0 byte DVD files
I've created an OSP file with OpenShot, and I wanted to export it as a DVD file. As this is my very first project, I've checked some how-to-websites and blogs where it was clearly explained how I ...
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How do I export a .mov with openshot?
I recorded my desktop with quicktime (for a tutorial I am making) on an iMac and the output was a .mov file.
I edited and deleted scenes with openshot and know I don't now how to export it to a .mov ...
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How can I resolve the error "be sure the Blender executable is correct" when trying to open animations in blender installed with snap?
I installed OpenShot and Blender from snap in 18.04 to keep the versions current.
When trying to open an animated title I get the following error message:
Blender, the free open source 3D content ...
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OpenShot not working Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
1st of all I'm very noob in linux..I could run Openshot on ubuntu 20.04 but recently I did new clean install of 22.04 and now I can't run Openshot. I installed it through github repo,,as mention ...
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Concatenating AVI videos
I have some AVI videos from a vacation. The videos might have different frame rate and resolution, as they came from different cameras.
What's the easiest way to concatenate these videos? Is there an ...
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If Lubuntu uses the same repositories as Ubuntu, can it have OpenShot & GIMP? [duplicate]
I'm using Ubuntu 17.10 and I'm considering switching to Lubuntu since my machine is pretty old for this heavy OS. I read it uses the same repositories as Ubuntu, but when trying Lubuntu from a disk on ...
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Openshot Video Editor 1.4.3-1.2 - How to stop it auto updating to v 2.43 etc in 18.04 LTS
Basically, the latest version openshot-qt increases file size, which does not have any advantages. I have a lot of 2-hours length mp4 video, which were cut from 2-3 hours plus F1 downloads. The ...
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How do I set the dimensions of OpenShot images?
For reasons I can't seem to divine, when I export images from OpenShot they are consistently 320x240, even if the originating video is 2 or 3 times that size. I've tried using the "Convert to Image ...
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How To Make A Song With Lyrics
Today I was trying to make a video using song lyrics but I couldn't find a way, I want to add some effects for text(Animation) and Slide(Animation) I know many programs Windows relative but I don't ...
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Need to convert a video file from mp4 to xvid
I checked out the questions with similar titles and didn't find anything that I thought would help. I am attempting to convert a video into an avi, preferably xvid. The video file's Video and Audio ...
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Openshot Video Editor + Blender--ERROR!
I'm using a Video Editor called Openshot, and it uses Blender. However, I keep getting this error:
Blender, the free open source 3D content creation suite is required
for this action (http://www....
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How do I export a video from Openshot?
I made a video with Openshot on Ubuntu 14.10. I want to export this video, along with the audio, for use on my computer and for uploading to YouTube. What format and codecs should I use?
Every time I ...
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Cannot run OpenShot: libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_list_model_get_n_items
I have downloaded OpenShot v2.5.1 (the latest version as of today), in the form of x86_64 AppImage.
My system:
Operating System: Kubuntu 20.10
KDE Plasma Version: 5.19.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.74.0
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Openshot 1.4.3 no longer recognising blender when making animated titles
I was using openshot and blender to create some animated titles and it was working fine until openshot just started to cry out for blender for no apparent reason. The previews work fine, and some ...
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Uninstall OpenShot
Ubuntu says that OpenShot is not installed. It clearly is, as you can see in this screenshot. I've tried a number of variants, including apt remove openshot*, OpenShot, and so on. All the info I ...
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How run the Openshot AppImage?
When I try to run the appimage it complains about missing Qt libraries (I will edit this to include the actual output later).
This doesn't make any sense - but it also means the application doesn't ...
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Openshot not opening in Ubuntu 18.04, No module named PyQt5.QtWebKitWidgets
I installed Openshot in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with
sudo apt-get install openshot-qt
And when I try to open it with openshot-qt in terminal it fails with an error :
Traceback (most recent call last):
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How to (force) use Nvidia graphics with OpenShot?
I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 . Yesterday I slightly edited a video in OpenShot, but video exporting was too slow, like it will take forever to finish!
So now I want to use my Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti, but I ...
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Openshot Default Project No Sound
running Ubuntu 16.04 and Openshot Default Project, downloaded from the PPA, has no sound. Tried several files, none work. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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OpenShot Video Editor blurs the video recorded by Simple Screen Recorder
I am working on YouTube videos. I recorded my screen using Simple screen Recorder. The quality of this recording was very good. I recorded sound on my mobile phone, as its mic is of good quality. I ...
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How can I upload my videos to the recommended encoding settings for YouTube?
I edited and exported a video using openshot, and selected the YouTube-HD profile. But, when uploading, I get the message saying:
Your video will be processed faster if you encode them in a file ...
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Openshot Video Editor shuts down my system while exporting a project to HDYoutube (Ubuntu 11.10)
As you read
I'm having untimely difficulties with "OPENSHOT".
I do a lot of editing for youtube and it requires HD uploading.Now the problem here seems rather odd and I know of a few people who are ...
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Issue with Openshot after ugraded from 18.04 to 20.04
I recently upgraded my laptop from Ubuntu 18.04 to Ubuntu 20.04. The upgrade went well but Openshot video editor had some issues.
So I uninstalled Openshot completely.
sudo apt-get remove --purge ...
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Openshot can't use Blender in Ubuntu Studio 20
Just installed Ubuntu Studio 20
Tried animated title which needs access to Blender (version at least 2.78, installed is 2.82a)
The default Blender command path is blender, also tried /usr/bin/blender
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Openshot crashes when exporting video on 20.04
OpenShot (version 2.4.3) crashes when it is exporting a video (YouTube HD 720p 30fps).
I installed it using apt and official repos.
This is the last part of the log file:
export:INFO YouTube-HD
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Openshot distorted line on the right side after exporting
When I export a video using OpenShot 2.4.1, there is this distracting line on the far right side that is completely showing different thing from the actual video.
It's like an overlay chaos. The ...
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I can not open Openshot in Ubuntu 17.04. What is the problem? how can I solve it?
I have removed it and and again installed, but still it is not working. When I try to open it, it blinks few seconds and automatically close.
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How can I make the audio of this mp4 downloaded with youtube-dl work? [duplicate]
I opened the terminal of blender suite and typed:
youtube-dl -f22 youtubeaddress
The specifics of format 22 of the youtube-dl program is as follows:
22 mp4 1280x720 hd720 , ...
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Openshot 2.2 uses all my cpu and freezes
I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and I just installed Openshot 2.2. When I load a video, and begin to preview it, Openshot begins to use over 50% of my cpu and after about 5 seconds freezes. Any ideas or ...
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How to install Openshot 2.0 side by side with 1.4.3?
I'd like to install Openshot 2.0 separately from 1.4.3 (say in opt, for example).
I'd tried running the appImage but it doesn't work due to incompatible libraries (weird for a self-contained ...
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OpenShot opens .webm file as audio
Tried to edit this file:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Acute_leukemia.webm
in OpenShot 1.4.3, which is what the Ubuntu Software Store has and what the OpenShot site says is ...
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Video Editing Performance?
I'm relatively new to Linux but love using Ubuntu and it has become my preferred OS for daily use.
I am really disappointed I don't seem to ba able to edit video on Ubuntu 14.04 with my Lenovo ...
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merge two video and make one of them smaller
I want to prepare a presentation. I captured the screen by kazam software and also my face via webcam by cheeze software, so what I have are two mp4 videos.Now I want to merge them. I want to make ...
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Trouble Installing Codecs libx264 AND libmp3lame
I am trying to use OpenShot for movie making. My ideal situation is to encode for the web HD, 30 Frames Per Second, to YouTube. This works out great as OpenShot has a setting for this. The problem ...
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After Ubuntu upgrade, I installed Openshot 2.5.1 and was able to export video to DVD, but when playing the DVD, there is no sound or audio
After I upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS, I found I could not longer create DVD from Openshot Video Editor 2.4.3. A message appears “Sorry there was an error exporting your video: Could not write header ...
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Openshot app not visible anywhere
I have downloaded openshot from terminal as stated on a website like this:-
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt
I didn't ...
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openshot and qbittorrent quits after after being launched
running: Kubuntu 11.04x64
Both programs quit right after being launched and I get the following errors when running each applications from the terminal:
OpenShot:
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Can't start openshot-qt
System Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS. Have installed OpenShot through Synaptic and can't start it either though Main Menu or Terminal. Terminal answer like this:
Loaded modules from installed directory: /usr/lib/...
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Openshot VideoEditor is not running
not able to run the openshot. Everytime, I run it it goes and create a process though. Even after ending process and restarting doesnot work, then running through terminal, gave me above mentioned ...
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The file menu of Openshot is missing. What should I do?
The file menu (that would be used to export video etc.) is missing. It does not appear in the menu bar or the window title bar and it is not searchable using the HUD. The file menus appear to be fine ...
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Every video editor crashing! [11GB AVI File vs Openshot & KDen Live]
After about 5-6 hours of waiting in Blender, I finally get an 11GB avi video file that is a audio visualisation of the song Stay With Me by Mendum generated by a script I made.
The file is rather ...
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How to add a Custom Openshot Blender Template?
After Creating the appropriate files and structure as listed
./blender/custom.xml
./blender/blend/custom.blend
./blender/scripts/custom.py
./blender/icons/custom.png
and placed in the location
/usr/...
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Reporting specific Ubuntu Software Center issues?
To whom or where do I report issues with the Ubuntu Software Center?
I am trying to download OpenShot and it tells me that I have no Internet connection... Despite the fact that I do have a working ...
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Inkscape not launched on OpenShot
Inkscape not launched on OpenShot
OS - Ubuntu 22.04
OpenShot - v: 3.1.1
on OpenShot
Edit -> Preferences
Advanced Title Editor (path): /run/user/1000/doc/9264e32b/inkscape
On Terminal;
$ whereis ...
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Upgraded to ubuntu studio 20.04 and lost all the extra video effects in Kdenlive and Openshot
When i upgraded to Ubuntu Studio 20.04, I lost all the weird video effects (like screen glitching, old Film effect, etc) that used to appear in Kdenlive and Openshot.
What package(s) am I missing?
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openshot not launching (ubuntu 22.04)
I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and Openshot video editor is not launching, I tried removing and reinstalling and installing PPA.
This is what I get from the terminal:
Loaded modules from: /usr/lib/python3/...
