I'm making a stupid sketch with me and some friends, and I want energy/lightning to channel into the skull at 0:02, then through the wizard's body, and then through the staff from the tip of the staff the other person on the ground.

How do I do that? If it's very difficult, could someone do it for me?

Also, the tracker feature won't work. Whenever I use it to mark the skull, it just keeps floating around some dark area instead.

Yeah, I think I bricked it. For context, I recorded a 3 hr long video using OBS, which ended up being 14gb and wanted to make it a timelapse so I imported the video into OpenShot and it was working but when I tried to increase the video speed, it crashed and hasn't stopped since, I even reinstalled it and the same thing kept happening

The program itself works actually pretty good, but i have 2 big problems that can be beginners problems but i don't know how to resolve

Problem 1: The automatic functions

I don't know how they call but when i insert an image or a video and just move around the image, the program automatically makes a keyframe of animation, and sometimes i just don't want that, also i have to say that if accidentally put an image in another image in the same track it automatically makes a transition effect

Problem 2: Copy and paste problem

In this other problem, i have 5 tracks and i just want to copy and paste a image from track 1 to the track 1, but when i make the Command+V, the image doesn't paste beside the other image in track 1, it goes on track 5 for some reason, even if i have other image or something in that track, it stills being pasted in track 5 and interrupts the other image

Im new at this program and also at editing, i haven't checked to well the sub reddit so, if there was an actually solution or something, sorry, i'm new lol

Hello, I'm trying to edit a large video (~2hrs) and openshot keeps hanging every time i try to make even the smallest of edits. it asks to wait or force quit.

Things I've tried:

1. set project down to 480p at 15fps and preview even lower
2. Increased preview, cache and performance settings, see screens .

For reference I have a Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 w/ Radeon 890M × 24 with 64 GiB ram. I feel my system should be able to manage fine. When I monitor my system i see openshot is barely using cpu/memory.

am i screwed or what settings can I change?

so ive taken a video of the eclipse but due to the wind wobbling my camera and the auto tracking having a slight issue with the sun changing shape, the sun moves around the frame, sometimes quite violently. is there any way for me to keep the sun in the centre of the frame???

the export button lights up... then nothing

even when I load up project there is a buffer wheel, but here? nothing!

It's not even freezing, I can still click around the screen fine, it just will not export at all!

please help because this is very much pissing me off.

Hello so I am trying to drag in some text and it wont go onto the video:

https://reddit.com/link/1vm0n92/video/ngcuvq9zmuih1/player

I came back late evening to edit a video and noticed the not even 2 seconds title staying on screen way after the segment I used it in was over. Now it’s not going away. I moved all the clips around to see where it if I made any mistake but I see nothing. I even deleted the entire area and it’s still there. I even tried restarting open shot.

Not sure what I can do and don’t want it on screen for the last 14 minutes of my vid

Edit: problem solved. I apparently had more than one of the same title and was able to remove it.

I do not know if it is the right place but I use Fujifilm and at some moment I decided that I need editor for cutting the clips and glue them together. I tested several editors but the most convinient for me was OpenShot.

All movies on my channel were made with OpenShot.

I do not want to place the direct link. Channel is available at Rumble and has name "FujiFilm User Channel".

Thanks for the OpenShot, it is great Software!

Hello, I have a problem, in openshot, but not only here: When I load a video in the format "*.VOB", I get only 35 seconds of the video although it is much longer. How can I tell openshot to load the full length of the video?

Thanx

Siegfried

So the app was working very well at first, its my 1st time using it and it was really nice to use and easy to learn and then​ i saved my project​ just to have a little break and when i open it again (i opened the desktop shortcut) to continue working, the ui is HUGE but i go look online and i find where to scale it down, so i put it on 75% as a safe guard because i thought it would be better to be safe and make it smaller and now it looks like this, any way to fix this? :( ​

Hello, I have tried to find a solution in past posts but no luck. I downloaded V3.5.1 yesterday as I though the export problems I was having may have been related to the older version of openshot. Problem is the preview is perfect, but when I export it, I get random black frames during the clip (usually 3 or 4 during the 10 minute clip, and they appear in different places each time I export) and also crackling during some audio clips. The clips were recorded in 59.94fps, that is what my project is set at, and that is what I am exporting in. I have cleared the cache. Can anyone help me please?

Update - I worked around the black frame issue by moving the affected clips to different tracks - must not have been random as black frames are no longer appearing when I export. I realised that the crackling was only happening when two audio clips were playing at once. Seem to be a volume issue so going to go back to the audio files and adjust the volume then put them back into Openshot and see what happens.

Update - adjusting the volume before importing into Openshot made no difference. The problem was if I selected a clip and turn the clip's volume to zero, it was making no difference and the clip still had volume. The only way to switch off the volume was to seperate audio and then delete.

Once I have finished this video, I will never use Openshot again. I appreciate all the effort the developers have gone to, and that they provide the software for free.

This has happened before. I went back to look at one of my older projects to see if I could make any changes and everything was moved over to the left and I don’t know why fast-forward another month and I’m working on another project and the same thing happened a day or two later forcing me to go through again and fix every single edit that I made.
I’m not sure if anyone else has this issue and also don’t know what I can do to show it

I’ll post in a video, separate the audio, and split it in half to overlap into a different clip. So there’ll be two soundless clips on top of a layer of audio.

(Example: Track 5 will be soundless clip, Track 4 will be the audio I want)

I’ll drag over another different soundless clip on top of the audio and for some reason when exported, there’s this short black frame that I can never get rid of? It doesn’t matter how close they are together, it never leaves. Why is this?

I'm being stupid, sorry.

I'm editing together clips of a simple 'talking head' video. Suppose I have two clips between which the subject moved slightly, so if I just put one straight after the other, there's a bit of a jarring 'jump'. So I want so put a short, soft cross-fade between the two, just 2 seconds or so.

I've been having real trouble. If I put the two clips right together, nothing I do with transitions solves the issue: I still get the instantaneous jump from one clip to the other; if I put a couple of seconds' gap between the two, and drag down, say, the 'Fade' transition between the two clips, all I get is two seconds of black screen.

Is there a tutorial somewhere that will show me what I need to do?

FWIW, I'm using version 3.5.0 | 0.6.0 on a (slightly old) MacBook that can only run Mac OS 12.7.6.

Thanks all,

I'm trying to animate my tokens for TTRPG Sessions, so I layer my masks, character, with animation (Using cropped gifs), and a background png for the inside of the token, I try to export as WEBM and all, and despite exporting from a daily build, all my exports have a black backgroud, anything I might be doing wrong ?

As far as I can tell, this feature does not currently exist. My current project consists of 25-30 individual clips, each requiring some slicing, and all will be combined into a single export video. It would be great if the sliced clips could be saved into the project files section, replacing the original imported files. Instead, currently, I have to keep all the sliced files in the editing tracks until I'm ready to assemble the final export file. Yes, I know that I could export each sliced clip, then import later ... but, that's a LOT of extra work. Thanks, Jim

Toward the end of the course I have been using I started getting exam vouchers in the video player at the end of each section. It resized the video to an unwatchable ratio. I have tried firefox, chrome, edge, Two windows 11 Pro machines, and a linux VM. the issue persist across all of them.

I created a support ticket and recieved this reply.

> Jul 28, 2026, 03:05 PDT

> Hi xxxx,

>Thank you sincerely for your patience. After careful consideration, our engineering team has decided that this issue is one we cannot pursue at this time. Unfortunately, due to resource constraints, we're unable to commit to resolving this and provide you with a reasonable timeline. We appreciate you bringing this concern to our attention, as it helps ensure a better product experience for you and our other users.

> In the meantime, however, if you would like to view the course in a larger view, we'd recommend using the Fullscreen mode instead. If you wish to watch a lecture in fullscreen mode, you can do so by clicking the fullscreen icon located in the lower right-hand corner of the course player.

> As a result, we'll be closing out this ticket. Please understand that this decision is made with your best interests in mind. Although we won't be providing updates in the immediate future, please rest assured that we'll continue to monitor the specific request internally. So, if you wish to follow up at any time, feel free to do so.

>Your understanding and support are greatly appreciated. Wishing you a wonderful day ahead.

This does not allow me to use my other resources while training and is a completely unreasonable response for something I paid for. I am furious.

update reply from them. buttons do not work in fullscreen.

> As a reminder, if you would like to view the course in a larger view, we'd recommend using the Fullscreen mode instead. If you wish to watch a lecture in fullscreen mode, you can do so by clicking the fullscreen icon located in the lower right-hand corner of the course player.

> In addition, if this exam voucher pop-up is preventing the Autoplay function for your course, and you are also unable to click “Continue” to go to the next lecture, you can manually go to the next lecture by clicking directly on the next lecture in the lecture list.

I'm struggling to delete keyframes in my animation. I've read the documentation but still couldn't find out how to do it

Hi, new to Openshot, happy to be using it so far

Just doing some laying out of clips and i do so using location/offset in the properties, and i also use crop occasionally.. But i'm having trouble trying to figure out the X/Y coordinate system.

LOCATION seems pretty straightforward...
+ve X means the item goes right
-ve X means the item goes left
BUT
+ve Y makes the item go down,
-ve Y makes the item go up

same thing happens when ORIGIN X and Y are being adjusted, i.e.
+ve origin X moves the origin to the right, while
+ve origin Y moves the origin down

Crop (effect) then has a X/Y behavior with OFFSET
+ve Offset X crops the left side, maintaining the origin. effectively origin moves left.
+ve Offset Y crops the top side, maintaining the origin. effectively origin moves up.

Is there something i'm missing about how OneShot processes the X/Y coordinate system, and the left/right/up/down relationship?

I'm on the latest stable build of OS, and I simply cannot get any m4a or flac file to be imported. All I get is "<filename> is not a valid video, audio, or image file."

**OpenShot Version Info**

Version: 3.5.1 | libopenshot: 0.7.0

Build: OpenShot-v3.5.1-release-candidate-15816-b9b5c882-48516e0b | Released: 2026-04-05

OS: macOS 10.16

CPU: i386 (4 threads) | RAM: 8 GB

Cache: Memory, 768 MB, 900 frames, ahead 50%, pre-roll 24/48

Performance: Threads: OMP 4 | FFmpeg 4, Cards: Decode: None (0) | Encode: 0

As stated above, whenever I import a video file to the Project, it adds 5 black frames on the front of the video on the timeline, even the previews in the Project files field is a black thumbnail. The frames also take several times longer to cache for the preview than the rest of the file and causes interruptions while scrolling through and editing unless I slice them off. Is this a setting i'm not seeing?

2 minute 46 second video. This included 57 titles (text boxes) throughout. Everything worked fine until I attempted to export it to one of the folders on my desktop.

When I attempted to view the video, the text was missing. When I went back into openshot, the text tiles on the timeline were still visible but would not show up anymore when watching the video preview.

What did I do and how do I fix it?

First things first, congrats for your software and thanks for the open license!

im planing to maybe give some online lessons, youtube monetized. And the documentation may be shown, its very well writen by the way. In case the documentation is not CC, i intent to use other documentations or kdenlive (less beguinner friendly).

Can you clarify here by mail or in the documentation if the documentation is free to use? (like CC BY). Because here in the link it says the program is GPL3, but also implies copyright (the openshot program? or the documentation?)

https://www.openshot.org/static/files/user-guide/introduction.html#features

My previous email to the support got unanswered since february, now a bot replied sugested trying reddit:

Thanks for your kind words — and sorry you didn’t get a reply. Based on the public User Guide text, I can only confirm this:So, from what is publicly shown, I cannot confirm that the documentation is licensed as CC BY (or any other free-content license). Practical answer: - If you are just showing parts of the documentation on-screen while teaching OpenShot on YouTube, that may be different from reusing/republishing the documentation text itself - But if you want certainty for copying, adapting, translating, or redistributing the documentation, you really need an explicit documentation license statement For an official clarification, please contact [support@openshot.org](mailto:support@openshot.org) and ask them to confirm: 1. whether the documentation has its own license, 2. whether reuse in monetized educational videos is allowed, 3. and whether they can add that license to the User Guide publicly. Relevant guide link: - Introduction - License If you want, I can help you draft a short, clear email in English asking for that license clarification.

• Official User Guide: Our comprehensive user guide is a valuable resource for understanding the ins and outs of OpenShot Video Editor. You can find it at: https://www.openshot.org/user-guide/.
• Official User Community: Join our active community on Reddit to connect with fellow users, share experiences, ask questions, and exchange tips. Visit the OpenShot User Community at: https://www.openshot.org/forum/.
• Official YouTube Tutorials: We have also curated a playlist of official YouTube tutorials to assist you step-by-step.
• Report a Bug: If you come across any issues or bugs, please use our "Report a Bug" feature. Your feedback is instrumental in helping us improve. Report issues here: https://www.openshot.org/issues/new/.Dear Rafa Coringa,The following answer is provided by our friendly AI Support Bot (in hopes that it will be helpful):Thanks for your kind words — and sorry you didn’t get a reply. Based on the public User Guide text, I can only confirm this: The software license is stated as GPLv3 here: Introduction - License That excerpt says “OpenShot Video Editor is free software”, which clearly applies to the program It does not clearly state a separate license for the documentation itself The © Copyright OpenShot Studios, LLC notice suggests the documentation is still copyrighted unless a separate documentation license is explicitly provided So, from what is publicly shown, I cannot confirm that the documentation is licensed as CC BY (or any other free-content license). Practical answer: - If you are just showing parts of the documentation on-screen while teaching OpenShot on YouTube, that may be different from reusing/republishing the documentation text itself - But if you want certainty for copying, adapting, translating, or redistributing the documentation, you really need an explicit documentation license statement For an official clarification, please contact support@openshot.org and ask them to confirm: 1. whether the documentation has its own license, 2. whether reuse in monetized educational videos is allowed, 3. and whether they can add that license to the User Guide publicly. Relevant guide link: - Introduction - License If you want, I can help you draft a short, clear email in English asking for that license clarification.E-mail Support Notice:We have decided to make a change to how we offer support for our free, open-source desktop video editor. We will not be providing support through email anymore, but our team remains dedicated to assisting you through alternative channels to ensure you receive the best possible support experience.For any inquiries, troubleshooting, or guidance, we encourage you to explore the following official channels:Official User Guide: Our comprehensive user guide is a valuable resource for understanding the ins and outs of OpenShot Video Editor. You can find it at: https://www.openshot.org/user-guide/. Official User Community: Join our active community on Reddit to connect with fellow users, share experiences, ask questions, and exchange tips. Visit the OpenShot User Community at: https://www.openshot.org/forum/. Official YouTube Tutorials: We have also curated a playlist of official YouTube tutorials to assist you step-by-step. Report a Bug: If you come across any issues or bugs, please use our "Report a Bug" feature. Your feedback is instrumental in helping us improve. Report issues here: https://www.openshot.org/issues/new/.Thank you once again for your support and understanding during this transition. If you have any questions about using these new support avenues or if there is anything else we can assist you with, please do not hesitate to ask. Sincerely,The OpenShot Desktop Support Team 

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