
Open a new Terminal window and run: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:velopers/ppa This contains pre-packaged builds, ready to use on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Zorin OS, et al. This doesn’t require ‘installation’ just download the runtime, give it permission to open, and away you go - no dependency chain to worry about.Īlternatively, if you’re on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and above you may prefer to use the official OpenShot PPA. Linux users can download OpenShot 2.6.0 as a standalone, self-contained AppImage. Head to the OpenShot website to grab an installer or runtime for your system: OpenShot is free, open source software available for Windows, macOS, Linux, and Chrome OS (though technically the latter is also Linux, but hey). Sounds good, doesn’t it? How to Install OpenShot 2.6.0

These are a lot of fun to play around with. OpenShot 2.6.0 also includes 9 new audio effects: Motion tracking (you draw a box around an object in a clip then OpenShot tracks it) works pretty well, though it’s not immediately clear how to ‘use’ the motion track info to, say, track another clip to it. The results aren’t quite as super fluid as in big-name video editors, but you can get some acceptable post-shoot video smoothing if you play around with the smoothing window values.

Stabilisation is, however, present and working.

You’ll get a (not catastrophic) error about an ‘incorrect path to class name file’. The ‘object detector’ effect, for instance, doesn’t work “out of the box” as it requires the manual installation of additional files that editor can’t bundle up in its installer.

However, there are a few caveats to a few of these effects. These include some impressive-sounding motion tracking and object detection capabilities, plus configurable stabilisation effect to (try to) straighten out any shaky footage. OpenShot 2.6.0 is the first update to this popular open source video editor this year, but it looks to have been well worth the wait.īundled up inside the latest build are new ‘computer vision and AI’ effects. A new version of the OpenShot video editor is now available to download - and it’s boasting some colossal sounding improvements.
