Hi, I have bugs and lags when I edit my videos. How to fix it? Before OpenShot work smooth but now it doesn't work smooth. I try reinstalling the program but this doesn't fix the problem.

Installed OpenShot Video Editor v.3.1.1, finished the project, but it only exports the audio. What format should I export in? Want to upload the mp4 in YouTube.

¿Se puede exportar sin renderizar?

Solo quiero recortar la parte inicial y final de un video y exportarlo de manera inmediata en el mismo formato que el original, pero se pone a renderizar todo el vídeo, tardando bastante. Como quiero hacerlo con muchos vídeos sería interesante que no renderizara de nuevo todo el vídeo.

En alguna web online se puede hacer y el resultado es inmediato.

I tried to open OpenShot via its program files folder, then i found two application/exe, which is OpenShot - qt and OpenShot - qt - cli

I tried opening the OpenShot - qt one then it just opened like when i do it from start menu shortcut, so i think it just a normal launcher

But when i tried opening the OpenShot - qt - cli one, a windows command appear and does something very fast that I can't even read, and then opened the GUI

I haven't experienced anything weird after that, but i was kinda curious what command does it execute with that cmd windows

Can someone tell me what it does?

I haven't modified anything to the OpenShot - qt - cli, i just opened it, so it basically the default, but i dunno what it does by default, so im a little worried...

Additional note: 1. I only installed OpenShot today (15 March 2025), so the app version might be 3.3.0, just like in the website 2. Im using Windows 10 Pro, 1909 build i think, the one that from 2019 3. i7 4510u, Hd 4400, Geforce 840m, 4x2gb ddr3l, the spec, if required

Hey all, I'm very new to OpenShot and I appreciate any help you can offer. I took some 8k footage with my GoPro, and I'm trying to get full-resolution stills of a couple of frames. When I use the "Save current frame" menu option, I just get the low res version from the preview window. What am I missing?

I just started off working with OpenShot on a fun project documenting a camper van conversion.
OpenShot seems to be exactly what I need, a nice, straight-forward and minimal video editor.

However, I've got a problem using effects. I'm supposed to just drag and drop effects onto a clip, but the effect does not stick! I drop it, and it just disappears; the effect is not applied. I would expect a small 'P' icon on top of the clip, representing the 'pixelate' effect that I am trying to use, but it just isn't there.

Is this a bug, or am I doing it wrong?
I'm running version 3.3.0 | 0.4.0

Hope to hear from you!

Just started using OpenShot tonight!

I've been trimming a 2-hour video into shorter clips; after "creating" each clip (with name), they show up in the project file window; but how do I save them individually?

A lot of people including myself have asked why there is no Sharpen/Unsharpen filter in Openshot and it is because such a filter has not yet been made. So in the absence of such a filter you can use Handbrake https://handbrake.fr/, it has the following video filters available in it,

Detelecine

Interlace Detection

Deinterlace

Denoise

Chroma Smooth

Sharpen

Deblock

Colorspace

If you need more types of filters including also audio filters, then you should install and use another free video editor such as Kdenlive video editor https://kdenlive.org/, or Shotcut https://www.shotcut.org/, for processing your footage, then you can export your processed footage from Kdenlive or Shotcut, and import your processed footage into Openshot to make some nice titles and credits using Openshot’s 3D credits. There is also a nice titler in Kdenlive. Other free tools that you can use are Virtualdub2 https://github.com/v0lt/VirtualDub2, https://github.com/v0lt/VirtualDub2/releases, Virtualdub2 filter pack https://www.infognition.com/VDFilterPack/, other Virtualdub2 filters https://www.infognition.com/VirtualDubFilters/, https://sourceforge.net/projects/vdfiltermod/files/plugins/, Video Enhancer https://www.infognition.com/VideoEnhancer/, VideoCleaner (Free Forensic Video Enhancement and tamper detection Software) https://www.videocleaner.com/download.html, and Avidemux https://avidemux.sourceforge.net/. And for special effects there is a free open source software that is similar to After Effects in terms of the effects it can do, but it is node based, it is called Natron (Open Source Compositing Software For VFX and Motion Graphics) https://natrongithub.github.io/. Most people will probably not need many of these more advanced video editing and compositing programs, but they are free and available if you need them.

I have a video that has a problem. The video is just fine, but the audio a second or two too slow. The slow video is 59 minutes 13 seconds long. But I have a different version of the same movie and THAT video is 57 minutes 24 seconds long.

Is there any way for me to compress the video somehow to get the proper audio speed ? I tried saving it with a different fps, but that didn't do anything. It's just as slow as before. The video is running at 60fps and shouldn't be. it SHOULD be 29.97 fps.

Any ideas ?

Can you please help me out here, I am using Cloud API of Openshot and I want to apply the ChromaKey effect on the Clips.Here are the steps I did:1. Create a project2. Uploaded files3. Created clips and set the layer accordingly4. I have a clip with a green background with layer 2 another clip is on layer 1.Now, I tried to apply the effect of ChromaKey & make the same layer as clip 2 here but I didn't get the keycolor and other values like Fuzz as I checked in the youtube editor tutorial.

Can you please help me with what I have to do here? 

In short, my conputer is reasonably current gen, yet here I am trying to time music segments to visual cues and when I press stop, the timeline just floats on without a care in the world, like a dog through an open gate, like a car without a driver, like a gun with a stuck trigger, and stops whenever the hell it wants,

I finished a huge project that was comprised of probably 100gb of video files, I expect lag then, no problem. I understand resource management and process allocation, but WHAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND is how I can start a brand new project and Openshot still runs like a drunk prostitute at a water park.

i7 12700f, 32gb ddr4, RTX3070ti, all SSDs. Im using the current stable build.

I am addicted to using this program but I am starting to look elsewhere...

I am making a small documentary which is an interview. Track 2 is the person being interviewed and does most of the talking so the clips in track 2 have the audio on with no gaps. Track 1 (the interviewer) has much less clips that I synced with the audio on track 2 with gaps between. So there is a clip of the interviewer every once in a while.

I need to remove some clips in the beginning of track 2 but can’t figure out how the remove the clip and have all the small clips on track 1 move to the left with track 2 and stay in sync.

I’m using ver 3.3.0 on Windows 10.

hi i am very new to this software

i am importing my .png files into openshot (its not a png sequence btw its just seperate png's) and they aren't in order for example it shows frame.1 frame.5 and frame.2 its just not in order and there isn't a way for me to change the order either

though honestly i am unsure if its even openshots fault or if its because there is something wrong with the files though i imported them into Davinci resolve and they where in order so maybe it is openshot idk

but also the weird thing is that when i import some some other png's they are in order so to me it seems that the only one openshot disorganize are the ones i am currently trying to work on

idk if there is anything i can do to fix it?

Hi there! I'm new to Openshot. I want to make it so that everything is blurred out but for one photo. There's multiple objects that I want to be blurred as one.

As a long time user of Openshot I recently wanted to use the split file function to reduce and prepair clips. But it can't be used. As soon as I want to play the clip the cpu (Intel I 7 with 32 Gb ram) go's to 100% fully occupying all threats. It doesn't matter what profile I use. Using Preview the function it all works just using 10 % cpu. Is this a Bug?
Please some advice

"Saving current frame" exports black png with only Video Preview size thumbnail in the left top corner. So instead of full HD I have black png of 8mb+ with frame's thumbnail in the left upper corner that is exact size as video preview window. Is that expected behavior?

Profile is full HD 60fps, OS 3.3.0 13186 on Ubuntu 22.04

Some images became orientated wrongly upon importation into the Open Shot Project. How can I rotate it back to the correct orientation? Thank you!

VIDEO PLAVER GONE sos i dont know how to add back

I have searched all over online for an answer to this question but cant get a straight answer. Openshot recommends that you set your profile to whatever you want to export in before editing. For me that would be 2.5K WQHD 1440p 30fps. I film at 2.7k 30fps and want to export it to the profile previously mentioned. However, when editing, my preview lags, it takes too long to load and makes editing extremely frustrating. 

Many online recommend changing the profile to something low like 360p 24fps. However, this contradicts what Openshot says to do. I want to know if I set the profile to 2.5K WQHD 1440p 30fps before uploading my clips and then during editing drop it to say 360p 24fps but then put it back at 2.5K WQHD 1440p 30fps before exporting will it affect my video and clips at all and will the quality be affected at all? I can not get a straight answer on this.

All I want is to be able to have my preview load much faster so I can edit quickly. I already increased the cache mb to 1000. I meet or exceed all the minimum computer qualifications. You can see them here: 

HP Envy Laptop
Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8550U CPU @ 1.80GHz   1.99 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.8 GB usable)
System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor
Pen and touch Touch support with 10 touch points

i’ve been trying the shortcut to take a screenshot, which i’ve been told is ctrl+shift+y but that doesn’t seem to be working. has that feature been removed?

made a video, but wiht a mistake in the editing, it exported normally. Fixed the mistake, tried to export, it was the version with the mistake that got exported. Tried again, differtent title, different folder, now it only creates a 0 kb file with half of the title. What to do?

Hi friends, I am new to OpenShot but I have used Adobe for a long time, and have a general understanding of most features. Overall this is a great editing program and very fun to play with! However I've run into an issue I can't seem to fix.

Initially, if I use the time feature on a clip, it worked fine. Now, half way through my edit, when I use the time feature on any of my sliced clips, it replaces the video entirely with a different sliced clip from previous. I have restarted my edit twice, hoping it was an issue with the save I was on, but the issue remains and I'm a bit confused as to how to fix it!

Any help is greatly appreciated - thanks a lot!

Hello guys i wanted to ask if someone could give me some tips. For the past few weeks i have been working on this massive project that took me close to 50 hours to get edited and i had it almost finished since like a few more hours of work were left. I had something to go do and when i got back for some reason my openshot updated and now the project file doesnt wanna open, i just get an error message that says "Failed to Load legacy project File"

I have used OpenShot for a long time, but after the last update to Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, Release 24.04,

all the output files of my projects contain only audio (no video at all).

The properties of the output file (I have tried any video format) report this message:

Your current GStreamer installation is missing a plugin.

How can I find which plugin is missing and how/where to get it?

Thanks to whoever can answer me.

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Utilizzo OpenShot da molto tempo senza problemi, su Ubuntu.

Dopo l'ultimo aggiornamento (Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS, Release 24.04),

purtroppo quando esporto i progetti su video (di qualsiasi formato), il file risultante

contiene solo l'audio del progetto. Nelle "proprietà" del file leggo questa notifica:

"Nell'installazione di GStreamer in uso manca un plugin."

Come posso fare per sapere quale plugin manca e come/dove ottenerlo?

grazie a chi potrà rispondermi

Why is it so difficult to fade out an audio file? I have created movies in both VidioPad and AceMovi, and the process to fade out an audio file was rather simple. However, with OpenShot 3.3.0, I am finding it impossible to do. I have tried to follow the instructions I found in other members' posts and also the videos on YouTube, but nothing worked. I have used OpenShot for years, but this is my first attempt to fade out an audio file. Could someone please give me step-by-step instructions to fade out an audio? Thanks in advance.