OpenShot 2.4.2 arrives with new features and new effects

openshot 2.4.2

A few days ago the popular multiplatform video editor OpenShot was updated to its new version 2.4.2 arriving with several new features, various bug fixes around its previous version which improve the stability of the editor and new effects added.

Through a statement The OpenShot development team announced the availability of its new version OpenShot 2.4.2 which we can now download and install on our system.

About OpenShot

For those users who still do not know OpenShot I can tell you that, OpenShot is a free and open source video editor, this editor is multi platform so it can be used in GNU / Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS.

OpenShot is a video editor that is very easy to use and it will allow us to do many things.

Currently the video editor is ideal for cutting and editing videos quickly and easily. The application makes use of the FFmpeg library and it is capable of reading and writing most video and image formats.

Between its main characteristics can include:

  • Possibility of creating animations.
  • Titles and 3D animation effects are also supported. To create them, we need to install Blender.
  • We can change the size of the video clip, change its appearance, trim and modify the cut, modify the alpha channel, adjustments, rotate the video, etc.
  • The number of tracks and layers that we can use is unlimited.
  • Good number of transitions with real-time previews.
  • Create a composition or overlay images and add a watermark.
  • The online video editing time includes support for drag and drop, scrolling, zooming, and other adjustments.
  • Option to mix and edit audio.
  • The program supports digital video effects, pitch shifting, grayscale, brightness, chroma key and more.
  • Multiple video and audio tracks.

Opportunity

New version Openshot 2.4.2

This new release of the OpenShot video editor features many bug fixes that improved the stability of the program, but what We can highlight in this new version is the inclusion of 7 new effects.

These new effects that were added to the video editor They were created from scratch and are already available in this new version.

The new video effects are as follows: Crop, Hue, Color Shift, Pixelate, Bars, Wave, Shift.

Each and every one of these new effects they can be used in conjunction with other effects to make extremely surprising combinations.

As well another new feature of which we can highlight it is automatic audio mixing.

With this new feature, the audio clips will be adjusted automatically. For example, background audio tracks can reduce their volume automatically when overlaid in a voice message.

Natively this feature is disabled by default and can be enabled in the clip properties.

In Openshot 2.4.2 sand added the function of reading rotating metadata in videos and imagesIn this way, when importing a video or image to the editor, it will read the rotation metadata and will show the image or video in the position in which it was taken. This feature requires a newer version of FFmpeg.

Between the other improvements we can highlight:

  • Improves audio playback.
  • Export dialog improvement. Progress is now displayed in the window title, which includes some performance parameters.
  • Now AAC is the default audio codec for many defaults.
  • Supported experimental FFmpeg Libav codecs and can now be used in OpenShot.

How to install OpenShot 2.4.2 on Linux?

Si do you want to install this new version of this video editor on your system, dYou must go to the official website of the project y in your download section you can get an AppImage with which you can install the editor on your system.

O If you prefer, you can do it from the terminal with the following commands:

wget https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/releases/download/v2.4.2/OpenShot-v2.4.2-x86_64.AppImage -O openshot.AppImage
sudo chmod x+a openshot.AppImage
./openshot.AppImage


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