OpenShot Video Editor 1.4.1 Released

OpenShot is a popular, easy to use video editor for Linux. It supports clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting, Video transitions with real-time previews, compositing, image overlays, watermarks, 3D animated titles using Blender, digital zooming of video clips and more.

Even though it was initially supposed to be a bug fix release, OpenShot 1.4.1 comes with some interesting improvements:

• Support for Blender 2.6.x
• New animation presets
• New 3D animation: wireframe text
• New title: gold
• New effect: fish eye
• Improved manual
• Improved title UI
• Improved precision
• bug fixes

Install OpenShot 1.4.1 in Ubuntu

To add the official OpenShot PPA and install the latest 1.4.1 in Ubuntu, use the commands below:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot frei0r-plugins

To be able to use animated 3D titles, you'll need to install Blender. For Ubuntu 11.10, simply install Blender from the official repositories:

sudo apt-get install blender

For older Ubuntu versions, you'll need a newer Blender version which you can install from the Blender PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:cheleb/blender-svn
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install blender

For other Linux distributions, see the OpenShot download page.

Report any bugs you may find @ Launchpad.

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