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Did you also download and install Blender and Inkscape? They will help you to create and render titles. Once you download and install the applications open the Preferences window and use the two Browse buttons to find each program. Restart OpenShot for the changes to take effect. This should help you with creating titles.

https://www.blender.org/

https://www.inkscape.org/

Ahh, sorry I can't help. I hope someone comes up with a fix for you. On a MAC I just detach the audio and scoot it around. I also tried OpenShot and went back to iMovie. Just a note for you, there is another FREE editor that I am using now, Davinci Resolve 16. Pro level, high learning curve but it performs beautifully

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/

It's actually popular enough now to where there are localizations for Esperanto in some Linux distros and other software. I'm learning it on Duolingo. Very easy to learn!

https://www.duolingo.com/enroll/eo/en/Learn-Esperanto

/r/Esperanto

After a bit of testing, I found that OpenShot v2.5.1 supports Blender 2.83.9. The Daily Builds of OpenShot support Blender 2.90 and higher.

Update, check out this tutorial Steve and be great to know which way you think is best?

It should be simple but its not really, so these are two ways I recommend to create the text before adding it to the timeline in a track above the video for it to appear over the video:

Using OpenShot

Menu > Title > Title..

1. Choose one of the plain text templates such as Footer or Standard
2. Type in a File Name eg a summary of the text
3. Type the text on one or more Lines
4. Choose the font and text colour
5. Click Save

Couple of issues are you cannot change the font size and need to Use Advanced Editor or use the Scale properties once on the timeline, and once that title is created you cannot simply copy it on the timeline and change the text and must right click in Project Files and Duplicate Title and create a new title for the new text. Or that is my understanding and happy to be corrected?

Using GIMP

1. Download GIMP - A free fully featured image editor - https://www.gimp.org/
2. Menu > File > New - Advanced Options - Fill with - Transparency
3. Menu > Tools > Text - Choose your font colour size etc and type your text
4. Menu > File > Export As and save as a .png file
5. Import into OpenShot

The advantage using GIMP is you can set the font size, easily justify the text and it also wraps to the next line something you cannot do in OpenShot, and then save that file as OpenShot-Text-Template.png to much more easily create new text files for each piece of new text to import into OpenShot.

Either way you will have a new Title .svg file or GIMP .png file to drag from Project Files onto the timeline above your video.

I am by no means an OpenShot guru, but some possible suggestions:

Make sure your stills are on a track above other stuff. Maybe consider placing you stills above your audio, but definitely above other images/video you are displaying.

Check the duration of your stills- default is 10 seconds.

Convert the stills to another format- and be mindful of any transparency/alpha layers in the stills. GIMP is great for this.

Hope one of those helps.

Answer was provided in the other command, assuming this issue has been resolved, if they're using Windows. If this is a Linux distro, same approach, different paths.

**ONLY DO THIS IF LINUX**

Linux with Blender, download the stand-alone blender tarball, extract and point to the blender executable in ~./home/$USER

Linux with Inscape, just install it from your repositories, then the path is inkscape without a path.

The easiest way to do this would be to create your template in Inkscape, then export transparent pngs, making a new number for every time the score changes. Then just overlay them, making their duration as long as necessary, changing the number when needed. This tutorial is a bit old, but still works and I chose it because it shows how to get your baseline image situated in Inkscape so you can easily ensure that your overlaid graphics are in the right place. But there are many such tutorials that you might find helpful, so a youtube search for "inkscape openshot overlay" will pay off for you.

If you don't already have Inkscape, it's very much worth downloading (it's free). It will amplify tremendously the things you can do with your videos.

hi and thank you

I was sent this video to make a change. So I dont know what settings there were.

I changed the framerate , the bitrate and whatever you can change.

But the safed file was alwyays huge beyond 2GB.

But meanwhile I looked up solutions and downloaded

https://handbrake.fr

and was able to convert to the orginial dimension. So all good now.

But it would be cool to be able to do it in OPEN Shot to begin with.

> You can also use any image manipulation program (GIMP, Photoshop, Inkscape, etc.) to create an image

For a lot of my stuff, this is what I do. I try to keep the output image to be the same size (H x W) as my final video render, to prevent any stretching/warping/clipping/aliasing/etc. For instance, I typically render to 1280 x 720p - so I make my "title images" that size.

I have found this online software to be more than enough for my needs:

https://pixlr.com/e/

...it's free to use, though some features you have to pay for, but I've found it easier to work with and use it more than my install of Gimp or GrafX2.

I didn't have the Futura Book font on my Windows, Mac, or Linux systems, so I searched the Internet. I found two versions of the font, one a scalable font (OTF) while the other is a TrueType font (TTF). If you have the scalable font on your system, OpenShot may not recognize it. I can think of two possible solutions:

1. Try downloading and installing Inkscape and setting the Preferences in OpenShot to point to the Inkscape binary file. Edit your title and use the Advanced Editor to change the font to Futura Book.
2. Download and install the Futura Book Truetype font. Edit your title and change it to the new font.

I hope he doesn't mind, but I copied this from a post by u/MummiPazuzu to answer your question.

>I use titles. With the help of Inkscape, you can get pretty good control of your text.
>
>Install Inkscape (https://inkscape.org/)
>
>In OpenShot, go to: Edit -> Preferences. Then in the 'General' tab, you'll find a place to input the path to the Inkscape executable (for instance, c:/program files/inkscape/inkscape.exe)
>
>Now, when you add Titles in OpenShot (on the menu, Title -> Add Title) you can choose from preset ones and add text and change colour, or you can choose 'Use Advanced Editor' and it will open Inkscape for you so you can make the changes you want, close and save the temp file and you'll have it available in OpenShot.
>
>I recommend messing around in Inkscape and learning how to make custom titles. There's a bit of a learning curve, but it's well worth it.
>
>One tip: In Inkscape, you can add a screenshot of the frame you want to put the text in, then you can add text and manipulate it how you want. Delete the screenshot after, and you'll have your text knowing exactly how it'll look in the finished video.
>
>Second tip: OpenShot seems to prefer 'text' objects created in Inkscape, while Inkscape tends to create text as 'flowRoot' objects. But you can highlight the 'flowRoot' object and in-text options on the menu you'll find an option to 'convert to text'. That way OpenShot recognizes it.

The basic Title editor is somewhat limited in version 2.5.1. There are improvements to the editor included in the Daily Builds of the program. If you wish to stay with the stable version of the software, you can download and install Inkscape to use as the Advanced Editor. After you install Inkscape, open the Preferences window of OpenShot and set the Advanced Title Editor (path) value to point to the Inkscape binary executable.

Download Inkscape from their website (https://inkscape.org/) and install it to your system. Open the Preferences window in OpenShot. On the General tab, click the Browse button next to Advanced Title Editor (path) and locate inkscape.exe. On a Windows system it is usually in the following path:

C:/Program Files/Inkscape/bin/inkscape.exe

Close OpenShot and restart it for the changes to take effect.

Yes, using a plug-in. OpenShot uses two free graphics programs as plug-ins. For plain text in any font on your system, you would use Inkscape; for animated text, you would need Blender. They're not hard to use after setting up.

Inkscape especially is useful because you can do more with it than just text; you can use it separately (not within OpenShot) to create any kind of overlays you might need, such as pointer arrows, circles or clip masks. Look on YouTube for "inkscape openshot overlays" for some good easy tutorials.

If all you need is straight-up text, you can just access it as a plug-in by clicking Title in the main menu. Remember to choose Title for Inkscape, or Animated Title if you've also set up Blender. I linked to the previous version of Blender (2.79) because right now the latest version (2.8) isn't compatible with the current version of OpenShot.

In my experience, OpenShot is geared toward using MP4 files. Have you tried running your clips through Handbrake to see if it can correct any errors before importing them into OpenShot?

I figured it out!

The problem was the .VOB format. After much struggling and Google searching, I found an open source conversion program that changed the .VOB to a .m4v file and it loads up properly into OpenShot, all 16 minutes of it. The program is called HandBrake.

Try using a free program, such as Handbrake, to convert the video files to MP4, even if they are already MP4 files. Doing this may correct any issues that OpenShot may have with the original files.

Do you receive an error message when you try to import your files? If so, could you post a screenshot of the error message, please?

Essayez d'utiliser un programme gratuit, tel que Handbrake, pour convertir les fichiers vidéo en MP4, même s'il s'agit déjà de fichiers MP4. Cela peut corriger les problèmes qu'OpenShot peut avoir avec les fichiers d'origine.

Recevez-vous un message d'erreur lorsque vous essayez d'importer vos fichiers? Si oui, pouvez-vous publier une capture d'écran du message d'erreur, s'il vous plaît?

Your framerates are 25fps (PAL) and 29.97 (NTSC) respective to your last message. You can use another free program to help you change the framerates to your desired output fps. Here is a step-by-step tutorial on using Handbrake to modify the framerates of your source clips.

After you set the framerates to the same value you should be able to import them into OpenShot and the video should play as expected.

No sure about the quality issue. But the reason the file size is doubled is because Openshot is basically re encoding the entire video.

You can use the free software, HandBreak to make the file size a bit smaller.

Thank you. Also, please let me know if the Flatpak image in Flathub (https://www.flathub.org/apps/details/org.openshot.OpenShot) has official support or not.

You provided an excellent, easy to understand title. So I can indeed provide you with a workaround.

Separating audio from video can be CPU intensive and can make OpenShot crash on some systems. When the separation does work, it can take a few minutes to work, sometimes as long as 10 minutes.

On older systems, I recommend having a copy of the free and open source Audacity handy.

Just locate and download the Audacity 2.4.1.dmg file on the page. Once installed, you can drag your MOV file into the audio editor. Then simply goto File, Export, WAV. Save the WAV file to a directory for use by OpenShot.

Now that we have a separate audio file from the video. Just import this new WAV file into your Project files of OpenShot, then drag into your time line below the video.

At this point, you'll want to mute the audio from the video file in the time line since we have the audio in an already separated file. Right click on the video clip in the time line, select properties, scroll down (on the right) until you see volume. Change the value of volume to 0 instead of 1.00.

This sounds like a lot, but if you follow this one step at a time, it's actually very fast and not too difficult.

Looks like an ongoing or intermittent Catalina bug. It doesn't automatically mean there's something wrong with the file, but I'd doublecheck that you got it from openshot.org and not from an alternate download site. When in doubt you can always just redownload. Jonathan is reputable and the real file is harmless and free of spyware etc.

I apologize for the long delay in my response.

I have PortableApps.com installed on my Windows 10 20H2 system, and I downloaded the OpenShot v2.5.1 portable app. I followed your steps above multiple times. Then I tried variations such as where I placed the Properties window, where I clicked in the window, and how I scrolled through the table in the window. I am not able to reproduce your issue.

Try resetting OpenShot to its default settings.  Open File Explorer and delete the C:\Users\(USERNAME)\PortableApps\OpenShotPortable\Data\.openshot_qt folder. Removing this folder removes settings and many things that can, in theory, become corrupt.  OpenShot automatically recreates the folder with the default settings when you relaunch the program.  This folder is not deleted when the program is uninstalled, so your previous settings are saved, often causing projects to fail.

I am using version 2.5.1 found at portableapps.com for windows 10. I just started using the program and did in fact go back to a fresh install (trivial in a portable version). It occurs simply by just starting it up, adding any single file (e.g. an mp3 file) drag it to the time line, right click->properties. Then undock and make the properties a floating window. The click on the properties window and try to scroll, either by mouse wheel or the actual scroll bar. The program then simply exits. Repeats every time.

Are you saying you can't reproduce this?

OpenShot does have the ability to set the time rate of frames in a clip. The Time function in OpenShot takes into account the entire clip that is being edited, not just the portion that you want to use.  To work around this issue, you can export the part of the clip that you want the speed adjusted to a separate video file.  Create a new project and import only the clip to be adjusted.  Change the speed of that clip then export it as another video file.  Import the recently adjusted clip to your original project and add it to the timeline.

You might find it easier to use another Free and Open Source Software such as slomoVideo to slow your video by speeds not built into OpenShot.

http://www.videosoftdev.com/free-video-editor/download

if it's working for you then there's obviously no reason, but if you're having any issues check out this link.

i was about to figure this out in minutes and it actually works

Hi u/scotsmist_2! Welcome to r/OpenShot.

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>Would you convert the DVD ISOs to files first or would you work with the ISO (import) in OpenShot ? 2) What 'Target', Video Profile' and 'Quality' would you select when Exporting the video(s) ? 3) Would you change any of the Advanced Settings ?

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1. I would convert the ISO files to MP4 files using free video converter software such as Handbrake or Shutter Encoder. OpenShot prefers editing using MP4 clips. It may seem like a hassle, but MP4 is the most widely recognized and accepted video format across all operating systems. If all your videos are in MP4 format, you should have a guaranteed method of playing them now and in the future.
2. For exporting your videos, I would choose the following:
   1. Target -- (CPU) MP4 (h.264)
   2. Video Profile - CIF PAL (352x288)
   3. Quality - Med
3. I would review some of the settings on the Advanced tab. In your Project Files list, right-click your clip, then select the File Properties option. Review the A*spect Ratio,* Pixel Ratio, and Frame Rate. In the Profile section of the Advanced tab on the Export Video window, ensure that the export settings match your source clips.
   If you want to try compressing your video, open the Video Settings section and change the Bit Rate / Quality value from 5.00 Mb/s to a value between 18 CRF and 23 CRF. This setting changes the bit rate from Average Bitrate to Constant Quality. The higher the number you use, the more compression you use, the lower the quality of your video.

Im trying Lightworks and like it 10x better (and its free). Sick of all the random issues I keep having with OpenShot. Lately I feel like I spend more time trying to fix issues than actually editing videos with it. Lightworks is a little more advanced but there's plenty of easy to find youtube tutorials for it if you search.
https://www.lwks.com/

Openshot source code, which includes the documentation and the images, is on github. I cannot see any reason why the images are excluded from the overall license, which I've copied from one of the doc source files:

.. Copyright (c) 2008-2016 OpenShot Studios, LLC (http://www.openshotstudios.com). This file is part of OpenShot Video Editor (http://www.openshot.org), an open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

.. OpenShot Video Editor is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ........(more)

So as far as I can see you are free to use the images as long as you release them under GPL3+ (that is a condition of GPL). There is a standard form that the license has to take - just cut and paste.

You can get the original images from the source code

openshot-qt-develop/doc/images

Good luck.

So ideally you want the aspect ratio and resolution to match your source video. If the source video isn't the same 1080x1080, the video will skew.

Understanding this, you can create custom profiles in your preferred text editor following this guide.

Ah, I see what you're talking about. Unfortunately you can't really change that, because the wave that you see is a direct illustration of the quality of the sound. In other words, because the sound is poor on that track, the waveform is also poor. The waveform is better on your mp3, because the sound is better.

I sometimes work with situations where the room sound from the camera is very poor and they want me to sync the video with the same sound from a lav mic. Because the sound quality is so different, sometimes it can be challenging to match the waveforms visually, as you are showing here. That's part of why filmmakers use clapboards; they do need to have a written record of which shot is which, but the reason they make that sharp clacking sound is to make it easy to synchronize the sound. You don't have to have a clapboard; you can make any sharp sound you like, like hitting your desk with a wooden ruler, or making a single loud clap with your hands; but it has to be an isolated, loud, sudden, quite sharp sound, so that it makes a single, sharp, easily distinguishable spike in the waveform. Once you can line those up, you have it synced throughout.

I don't recommend using OpenShot to amplify sound, or really to do any sound-specific work at all. Its capabilities are rudimentary compared to even a simple audio editing app. If you need to modify it, I would do so before editing, in the audio app of your choice, then bring the sound back into OpenShot and sync it with your video for editing.

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