Uploaded September 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
As much as I really wanted to take to the opensource OpenShot for video editing, it has quite a while to go before things will likely improve. Ignoring the rough edges, quirks, and GUI glitches, OpenShot shows much potential--that is, when it isn't locking up or doing strange things with the imported video files. Notwithstanding my serious reservations about uploading this video and the presumed backlash I will get for it, provided in unabridged form for your consideration is my honest review of OpenShot Video Editor.
Created in answer to the influx of requests and propositions to try OpenShot that I have received since publishing my review of Honestech's Easy Video Editor, I hope this review will finally dissuade those people from making similar suggestions in the future.
If you're fortunate enough to render a video successfully, the quality is quite impressive, thanks in large part to the wealth of configurable settings available for encoding. However, the oddly-implemented deinterlacing-as-an-effect leaves much to be desired, what with jagged edges aplenty. The layout of OpenShot is organized and simple, something too many programs get wrong by overwhelming a novice user with an agglomeration of tools, effects, and settings.
Maybe in a year or so things will have improved to such as point as where one might actually edit a video easily, without needing to restart the program five or six times.
As much as I really wanted to take to the opensource OpenShot for video editing, it has quite a while to go before things will likely improve. Ignoring the rough edges, quirks, and GUI glitches, OpenShot shows much potential--that is, when it isn't locking up or doing strange things with the imported video files. Notwithstanding my serious reservations about uploading this video and the presumed backlash I will get for it, provided in unabridged form for your consideration is my honest review of OpenShot Video Editor.
Created in answer to the influx of requests and propositions to try OpenShot that I have received since publishing my review of Honestech's Easy Video Editor, I hope this review will finally dissuade those people from making similar suggestions in the future.
If you're fortunate enough to render a video successfully, the quality is quite impressive, thanks in large part to the wealth of configurable settings available for encoding. However, the oddly-implemented deinterlacing-as-an-effect leaves much to be desired, what with jagged edges aplenty. The layout of OpenShot is organized and simple, something too many programs get wrong by overwhelming a novice user with an agglomeration of tools, effects, and settings.
Maybe in a year or so things will have improved to such as point as where one might actually edit a video easily, without needing to restart the program five or six times.
