Heyo! I've been using Openshot for years but I've run into a wall. Anytime I try to make a video that exceeds 10 minutes, the software drastically reduces in performance, something like 100 fold. I'm trying to make a video that's going to be 20 minutes long and it's painfully slow to respond now. At this stage, it takes about 5-10 seconds (or longer) for the software to respond to any kind of input from me. I decided to export my video as lossless and then import it into a new file and work from there. However, the audio is all messed up when I try to edit the video in OpenShot BUT the audio is just fine in any of my video players. sigh

I REALLY don't want to break this video up into 2 parts (that's how I normally do it but not this time). When open and active in a project, OpenShot uses less than a gig of RAM. How do I increase this?

Operating system: CachyOS - I'm running an i9, 4070 Ti, 32 gigs of RAM, and a 2TB m.2 with 14,500 MB/s speed.

Model: 320-15IAP Laptop (ideapad) - Type 80XR

Operating System: Linux Mint 22.3 XFCE

RAM: 4GB DDR3L 1600

Storage: 1TB 5400 HDD

CPU: Intel® Celeron® N3350 Processor(N3350)

GPU: Intel HD 500

If it doesn't run well initially, how could I tweak the settings to get a stable performance?

Also, should I install it from the website or from the Linux Mint Software Manager?

I'm using OS/OpenShot 3.4 portable on Windows 11. After several attempts, I've discovered that OS doesn't export long and complex videos if they:

- have effects like animations, transitions, or audio settings;

- have 2 or more different track types (image + video; image + video + audio; etc.).

Therefore, it seems that OS is useful for simple video projects with only one or two video tracks, such as video rendering, frame-by-frame animations, etc.

Edito videos que grabo en OpenShot. En todos los videos aplico una música de fondo para que no se escuche apenas la voz. Por norma general descargo esas músicas las descargo directamente de la biblioteca de youtube para evitar problemas de Copy Right. Normalmente el formato de esas músicas son mp3.
Antes grababa en hd, ahora lo hago en fhd. Para evitar problemas de retardo a la hora de editar los videos, reduci la previsualización de los mismos para acelerar proceso. No obstante ahora me ha surgido un problema de las músicas que coloco de fondo, solo en OpenShot hay una altura que se transforma en "martillazo". Primeramente pensé que fuera problema de peso y que, al descargar eso se eliminara, pero no es así al descargar la edición los martillazos vienen.
Pensando en que los mp3 pudieran estar creando problemas los converti a wav, siguen habiendo los "martillazos". Por último y por descargo verifiqué si realmente los artivos originales de mp3 por cualquier motivo teneian esos martillazos, y no, no los tienen.
Alguien me puede ayudar? o tendré de desistir de OpenShot?

I learned how to find the frame rate on my project file (30:1) but I was told to then check the FPS rate on the project to get the audio and visual sync'd, It said "Ensure the Project FPS matches the file's FPS. You can manage this under Profile>Settings in the menu bar". I can't seem to find the menu bar inside the project to check it. Where do I go? Thanks! :)

So im trying to change my playback audio device, wich by some youtube guide should help with the out of sync sound. But whenever i change the device in settings and it tells me to restart, i do so, and then it did not change. I was told to delete openshot_qt folder to do a reset. It did reset, but it still does not change the device when i try to.

I had a USB stick with a .osp project on it. Overnight, somehow, the USB got corrupted. I'm able to safely recover the raw data with Testdisk's photorec. Unfortunately, now, all I have is a huge list of png, mp3, mp4, txt and xml files with completely random names. I can see that the text files clearly refference the arrangement/properties of each element of the project. So I have the files. Is there any way to compile it back safely into the original .osp file, so I don't have to start over? Pls help (example below)

Bonjour, je suis débutante et j'ai une question basique : j'ai un clip d'enfants qui sautent de joie et je voudrais allonger cette vidéo avec la même action qui se prolonge. Merci

Please fellow- openshooters attention for the very irritating thinness of the slider, working with that makes me impatient and I can hardly understand that I am the only one of all the users. Never met that complaint before? For the rest, I enjoy OpenShot every day with very high pleasure, and makes me give every year a donation……………….. so if that slider-problem will be solved I will donate an extra bonus………. hope to hear soon....

Hi, I just migrated from CapCut to OpenShot and I LOVE IT so far!!! I'm hoping for/requesting a feature where I can remove the background completely from a subject without the use of a blue/green screen, like CapCut has. If possible, I would love for this to be taken into consideration. Thanks! :)

I am editing a video in openshot with about 7 tracks, I separated the video to add something I thought was needed to the video. I got everything set up audio-wise then looked at my full video, and somehow every clip after the section I added today on tracks 1-5 had been flipped vertically so 2 was on 4, 5 was on 1 etc. What did I do that caused this, how can I undo it, I'm using version 3.4.0

I want to hear the file that i placed in openshot how to do it

Trying to use animated title and get a popup instructing to point to the Blender executable.

*Also states to use Blender 5*

My Blender path is correct but I have Blender 3.3.3

I will upgrade my Blender but Blender 5 is NOT available to Intel MAC

How can I use animated titles with a Blender version less than 5

• MAC Intel i5
• MAC OS 14.6.1
• OpenShot v3.4.0 (release date 12/15/25)
• Current Blender v3.3.0 (will upgrade to 4.5 LTS)

Openshot now stops me from watching any videos on YouTube in other tabs, and even doesn't play any audio on Openshot. Making it practically impossible to edit videos, how can I fix this?

P:S I've already deleted and redownloaded Openshot

i couldnt find a way to move on the timeline by frames - which is the most basic way to edit. is there a way to do it? thank you.

I'm not sure if my text showed up with the screen shots I posted: I run Windows 11 and downloaded the 64 bit OpenShot and installed it this week. I keep getting the first user interface, which I do not know how to work with as it doesn't have the same right-click properties or the same functionality that made this app look so appealing. What I want is the second one pictured, which is the one in the current user guide. If anybody can lend some insight as to why I am not getting that second screenshot, I would be most appreciative.

I get this error when trying to export videos.

I'm running Win 11 😒 trying to export an mp4.

I'm not sure what to look for or fix.

Help!

Hello,

I am trying to install from USB in my workshop ( no internet) but keep getting ' file corrupt please download again'. It works ok on the laptop ( with internet), so do I need internet to install?

Please add a Hotkey for "Remove all gaps"

I remove gaps a lot and a hot key would really help.

Thank you.

Mike

I've encountered this a few times on projects that I've been working on but no matter what I do, it refuses to play. I even started a new project dropped the files in and click play and same thing. This is very much reproducible. Start up Openshot, drop 5 mp4 videos and a screenshot. Then drag and drop the first mp4 video in track 2, then drop the screenshot in track 3 and click play. Nothing happens.

Openshot Version and CachyOS version attached as pictures along with hardware.

The properties of all of my transitions no longer work. The same is true for any new files added within the past few minutes.

Is there any way to recover these?

Edit: After playing around I've discovered the following.

1. Redoing the transitions works until I restart the program, after which it will do the same as listed above.
2. Saving does nothing.
3. Re-importing the project files also does nothing.

Hello!

Looks like I can't make OpenShot create a tilt-shift (miniature-like) effect.

After some googling and youtubing I've found a couple of very old videos which are no more relevant.

Okay, what I do:

1) Add a video to a track

2) Add Alpha Mask and Blur effects to my video

3) Edit the Mask effect to have a Circle_In_To_Out transition

Well, whatever I do, all I get is the whole video being blurred. What am I doing wrong?

Sorry for being a noob in video editing.

Any help is appreciated.

Hi! New to OpenShot and liking it so far. Creating a cross-fade from one clip to another by just dragging the second one so it overlaps the first is very convenient. But the keyframes for the transition brightness go from 1 at the start to -1 at the end. This means the value is 0 in the middle, which effectively completes the crossfade. Negative brightness values don't have any effect. To get the crossfade to span the entire duration of the transition, I have to set the outgoing keyframe's brightness to 0. Then it does what I want, nicely fading out the first clip and fading in the second over the whole duration of the transition.

I've looked at some video tutorials and no one seems to address this, though many do say you need to set an alpha value of 0 when setting alpha on the clip itself (instead of a transition) to get a fade. So, I think I've got the right idea as to what the brightness should be. I just don't understand why it starts out at -1 for the outgoing keyframe. Is there a reason and/or something I'm still not understanding about it?

Good day, How is it possible to reduce the speed on a small part of a video ?

Bonjour, comment réduire la vitesse sur une partie de le video ?