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During the past week, we have made many improvements, bug fixes, and added a number of new features. Here is a quick rundown of the more notable changes:

New Zoom Bar:
We have added zoom in and zoom out buttons to the zoom bar to make it quicker to zoom in and out. However, if ...

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Fresh off the release of video compositing, we've just added audio mixing to OpenShot. What is audio mixing you ask? Well, it's the ability to mix the audio of multiple video & audio clips across multiple tracks. So, instead of hearing just the audio from the top-most clip, it mixes all the tracks ...

Have you ever been able to to easily overlay, mix, edit, and composite videos in Linux? Me neither, but that's about to change! We have just added the ability to composite any number of clips & tracks together.

OpenShot's time-line is organized much like the Layers in Gimp or Photoshop. The bottom layer ...

Here is a quick status update on OpenShot. Things are progressing nicely. The code is really shaping up, and I am making very good progress. Here are few of the recent changes:

• MLT framework has been integrated
• A threading framework has been setup to work with MLT (so OpenShot doesn't freeze while playing videos ...

I have now invested many months of my life into designing a video editor for Linux. I have learned new programming languages, become friends with many people from around the world, and had many "Ah ha" moments. I am a huge supporter of FOSS, and I consider this my contribution to the Linux community!

This ...

Merry Christmas everyone! Here is the first set of screenshots ever released for OpenShot Video Editor. They showcase a few of the features we are working on, including the awesome timeline! Please help us out by sharing these screenshots and linking to this blog. Also, as i said in my preview post, we are still ...

We are looking for a few good contributors to help us with OpenShot Video Editor! If you have any experience with Gnonlin and are interested in joining our team, please contact me through LaunchPad or post a comment to this blog entry.

Gnonlin has great potential to help empower the next wave of video editors ...

I am revisiting the topic of exporting a frame of video to a PNG image file using Python and Gstreamer. In my previous post, I demonstrated how to use the gst-launch command to accomplish this, but I never could get it to work with just Python. Also, my previous pipeline only worked for MPEG and ...

What do pickles and pythons have in common? Well, I'll get to that in a second. First, let's talk about application data. A key part of every program design is "how and where do I store my data". I have considered many different options for the OpenShot Video Editor, including XML, Embedded MySQL ...