If you edit your own videos on Linux from time to time, it is more than likely that you are aware of OpenShot. If this is not the case, then tell you that OpenShot is one of the best and most popular video editors available for Linux, and not only for Linux, since it is cross-platform and is also available for Mac and Windows. And if you are already users of this great editor, you will be happy to know that it is already available Open Shot 2.3, its most important update to date.
In addition to the fixes that usually arrive in each new version of any software, OpenShot 2.3 includes many better ones, such as a totally new transformation tool for create transformations in real time in the video preview window, as well as a tool for cutting video and sound (Razor Tool) that has returned after being removed some time ago, a return that seems to have taken place by popular request.
OpenShot 2.3 comes with a new preview window
La new preview window It will allow us to preview files in a separate video player that supports several windows playing at the same time. On the other hand, the new version of OpenShot also includes many important performance improvements in the speed of real-time previews, as well as an Export dialog that no longer depends on the real-time preview system. Noteworthy changes also include improvements to the title and animated title editors and the ability to zoom (plus and minus) the timeline, including audio support.
The latest version of this video editor is OpenShot 2.3.1 and we can install it in Ubuntu 14.04 and later from its official repository by typing these commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install openshot-qt
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