{"id":6660,"date":"2017-03-31T14:57:55","date_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:57:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2017-03-31T14:57:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-31T14:57:55","slug":"install-openshot-2-3-ppa-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/03\/install-openshot-2-3-ppa-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install OpenShot Video Editor 2.3 via PPA in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openshot_logo245.png\" alt=\"OpenShot Video Editor\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6182\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Openshot video editor has reached the new stable 2.3 release today. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Linux Mint 17 &#038; 18, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Openshot 2.3 is one of the biggest release filled with new features, performance improvements, and tons of bug fixes! Release highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A new transform tool, allows real-time transformations in the video preview window.<\/li>\n<li>Zooming the timeline has been greatly improved.<\/li>\n<li>The razor tool from OpenShot 1.4.3 has returned <\/li>\n<li>Many improvements to the Title Editor and Animated Title Editor.<\/li>\n<li>Preview has own dedicated video player, allows multiple preview windows at the same time.<\/li>\n<li>Huge performance improvements for real-time previews<\/li>\n<li>New documentation (English only so far)<\/li>\n<li>Audio, Export dialog, and other improvements. See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openshotvideo.com\/2017\/03\/openshot-23-released-new-transform.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"OpenShot 2.3 Released | New Transform &amp; Razor Tools!\" width=\"610\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ex5vAunVdPk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install OpenShot 2.3 via PPA:<\/h4>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openshot.developers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">OpenShot Stable PPA<\/a> has built the new packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and Linux Mint 17 &#038; 18.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal via Ctrl+Alt+T or by searching &#8220;Terminal&#8221; from start menu. When it opens, run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Type in your password (no visual feedback due to security reason) and hit Enter.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openshot-stable-ppa-600x99.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"99\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openshot-stable-ppa-600x99.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openshot-stable-ppa-450x74.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/openshot-stable-ppa.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> If you have a previous Qt version (no the stock version in Ubuntu Software) installed, now launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> to upgrade Openshot after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p>Or run the commands below one by one in terminal to check updates and install Openshot 2.3:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get update\r\n\r\nsudo apt-get install openshot-qt<\/pre>\n<p><b>Uninstall:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The PPA repository can be easily removed by launching <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and navigating to <b>Other Software<\/b> tab. And the <code>openshot-qt<\/code> package can be removed either via your package manager or by running command:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo apt-get remove openshot-qt && sudo apt-get autoremove<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Openshot video editor has reached the new stable 2.3 release today. Here&#8217;s how to install it in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, Linux Mint 17 &#038; 18, and their derivatives. Openshot 2.3 is one of the biggest release filled with new features, performance improvements, and tons of bug fixes! Release highlights [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1372,32],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-openshot-video-editor","tag-video-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}