OpenShot Video Editor: What's New in Current Version 3.2.1
Last month (October, 2024) we addressed in two useful and far reaching posts The latest news from two great free and open source multimedia applications, suitable for content creators, both professional and beginner. And these were Kdenlive y PitiviHowever, in both posts we mentioned that the repertoire of applications in this field is quite wide and well-known, so for this month we will continue to address some other existing ones. Consequently, this post is dedicated to the Video Editor «OpenShot», which has been a free and open project to which we have already dedicated many previous publications about what it is, its use and news.
And since, the last time we talked about her was in 2020, when stable version number 2.5.1 was in effect, as it arrives in a timely manner for you, our faithful and new readers, users or not of said multimedia application. And taking advantage of the fact that, Its most recent version was released under version number 3.2.1 It is only a few months away (July, 2024) from being released to the public, so we are sure that they will appropriately value such information and news.
OpenShot: Available the new daily builds of the current version 2.5.1
“OpenShot is aFFmpeg is a free and open source video editor, and it is also multiplatform, so it can be used on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Windows and MacOS. It is also a video editor that is very easy to use and allows you to do many simple and advanced things on various video formats. Currently, it is usually ideal for cutting and editing videos quickly and easily, in order to create useful and entertaining content for any type of audience. This makes it a surprising, powerful, easy-to-use and quick-to-master video editor. Finally, it is worth noting that it makes use of the FFmpeg library and is capable of reading and writing most video and image formats.
OpenShot Video Editor: What's New in Current Version 3.2.1
List of current new features (changes, fixes and improvements) in OpenShot 3.2.1
We have already mentioned in detail on previous occasions the Technical features and ease of use by OpenShot, so in this post we will focus specifically on the highlighted news of the current version 3.2.1 that has been released in its Official announcement of launch in July 2024, which are divided into the following sections:
Implementation of improvements at the installation script level
- The deployment script has been updated to allow partial deployments based on changes in the repository.
UI/UX improvements
- Fixed the background theme color in the preview/split clip dialog.
- Added changes to avoid certain crashes on Windows when changing the background color of the video preview widget to use the stylesheet and palette.
Support and documentation
- Certain translations have been updated for the next version.
- The “supporters.json” file and the one related to the donation request have been updated.
- Added a disclaimer and updated documentation for locating older/previous versions of OpenShot installers.
Managing themes and windows
- Specific changes have been made to prevent empty context menus from appearing in the property table view.
- The Theme Manager has been refactored to improve thread safety and fix certain crashes when starting on Windows.
- We have managed to delay the display of the main window until all themes have been fully applied for better synchronization and operation of this feature.
- Restoring window geometry and state twice has been implemented to ensure proper functionality.
And others, related to certain bug fixes for OpenShot's Sentry.
OpenShot is a free and open source multimedia development that comes with support and installers for Linux-based operating systems, Mac OS, and Windows. It also makes it much easier to quickly and easily trim videos, especially thanks to its very powerful animation framework, which allows you to fade, slide, bounce, and animate anything in a video project. It also offers unlimited tracks, allowing you to add as many layers as needed for watermarks, background videos, audio tracks, and more.
Summary
In short, with this Latest and recent update of the “OpenShot Video Editor”, which has been released under version number 3.2.1, this multimedia application undoubtedly proves that, like others in this field (Kdenlive, Shotcut, Pitivi, LosslessCut, Avidemux, Olive, and Flowblade) it is still active and in full process of development, improvement and innovation. And surely, very A new version should be launched soon in 2025, with more interesting and useful new features that will provide many new features and advantages for the most diverse users and creators of multimedia content.
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