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OpenShot Video Editor for Mac

Free and open-source video editor.

Free
In English
5.0
Based on 3 user rates

OpenShot Video Editor overview

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

Features
  • Cross-platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
  • Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg)
  • Powerful curve-based Key frame animations
  • Desktop integration (drag and drop support)
  • Unlimited tracks / layers
  • Clip resizing, scaling, trimming, snapping, rotation, and cutting
  • Video transitions with real-time previews
  • Compositing, image overlays, watermarks
  • Title templates, title creation, sub-titles
  • 2D animation support (image sequences)
  • 3D animated titles (and effects)
  • SVG friendly, to create and include vector titles and credits
  • Scrolling motion picture credits
  • Advanced Timeline (including Drag & drop, scrolling, panning, zooming, and snapping)
  • Frame accuracy (step through each frame of video)
  • Time-mapping and speed changes on clips (slow/fast, forward/backward, etc...)
  • Audio mixing and editing
  • Digital video effects, including brightness, gamma, hue, greyscale, chroma key, and many more!

What’s new in version 3.2.1

UI/UX Improvements
  • Prevent freezes on Windows: switch video preview widget background color to use stylesheet and palette.
  • Fixed background theme color on the preview/split clip dialog.
Theme and Window Management
  • Refactored ThemeManager for improved thread safety and to fix Windows launch freezes.
  • Delay showing the main window until all themes are fully applied.
  • Restored geometry and window state twice to ensure proper functionality.
  • Limited setContentsMargins to specific widgets to fix issues when changing themes.
  • Prevented empty context menus from appearing on the property table view.

Full list of changes available here

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OpenShot Video Editor for Mac

Free
In English
Version 3.2.1
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5.0

(6 Reviews of OpenShot Video Editor)

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  • User Ratings

Madmacmad
Madmacmad
Mar 27 2024
3.1.1
0.0
Mar 27 2024
0.0
Version: 3.1.1
no Apple Silicon ... :-( why? ShotCut already is...
Aargl
Aargl
Mar 6 2022
2.5.1
0.0
Mar 6 2022
0.0
Version: 2.5.1
I gave it a try but it freezes as much as it can... First if you don't allow connections! (Why would I need to connect anywhere for editing a video?) Then, once you've given up blocking connections, it freezes as soon as you try to move some segment. Too bad, it looked nice. Shotcut may not be the state of the art but at least it works.
robloxfightingking
robloxfightingking
Dec 28 2021
2.5.1
0.0
Dec 28 2021
0.0
Version: 2.5.1
I didn't download from macupdate so cant rate
robloxfightingking
robloxfightingking
Dec 28 2021
2.5.1
0.0
Dec 28 2021
0.0
Version: 2.5.1
Deserves good rating
robloxfightingking
robloxfightingking
Dec 28 2021
2.5.1
0.0
Dec 28 2021
0.0
Version: 2.5.1
Openshot has probably over 10 million users...
Ervins Strauhmanis
Ervins Strauhmanis
May 8 2023
2.5.1
5.0
May 8 2023
5.0
Version: 2.5.1
wwwndukwokalu24
wwwndukwokalu24
Dec 13 2020
5.0
Dec 13 2020
5.0
Version: null
PRjohnson
PRjohnson
Apr 25 2019
5.0
Apr 25 2019
5.0
Version: null