{"id":7123,"date":"2017-09-07T16:40:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2017-09-11T14:32:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T14:32:14","slug":"openshot-2-4-released-install-in-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/09\/openshot-2-4-released-install-in-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenShot 2.4 Released! How to Install it 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 2.4 release earlier today with stability improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases.<\/p>\n<p>OpenShot 2.4 mainly features following changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Vastly improved stability, improved undo\/redo history (now being saved inside each project file).<\/li>\n<li>Fixed Image Sequence exporting. Supports PNG, JPG, PPM, BMP and a few others.<\/li>\n<li>Added &#8216;Audio Only&#8217; and &#8216;Video Only&#8217; export options.<\/li>\n<li>New freeze and zoom menu<\/li>\n<li>Prevent crashes related to too many threads<\/li>\n<li>Fix many crash issues and other bugs.<\/li>\n<li>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.openshotvideo.com\/2017\/09\/openshot-240-released-improved.html\" target=\"_blank\">release note for details<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24-450x303.jpg\" alt=\"openshot 2.4\" width=\"450\" height=\"303\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24-450x303.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24-768x517.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24-600x404.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/openshot24.jpg 1004w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install OpenShot 2.4 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>A 64-bit AppImage is available for download at the link below. Just download, make executable and run the file to launch OpenShot:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href='http:\/\/www.openshot.org\/download\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-large arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download OpenShot AppImage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For traditional packages, <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~openshot.developers\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\">OpenShot&#8217;s official PPA<\/a> contains the .deb packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.04, <del>though OpenShot 2.4 build it not ready at the moment of writing.<\/del><\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> Open terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and run command to add the PPA:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers\/ppa<\/pre>\n<p><i>Input your password (no visual feedback while typing) when it prompts 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> Then upgrade the editor via &#8220;Software Updater&#8221;, if you have a previous <code>openshot-qt<\/code> package installed.<\/p>\n<p>Or run commands to check updates and install \/ upgrade OpenShot:<\/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>To uninstall openshot video editor, run following command in terminal:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">sudo apt-get remove --autoremove openshot-qt<\/pre>\n<p>And remove the PPA by launching &#8220;Software &#038; Updates&#8221; and navigating to Other Software tab.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The openshot video editor has reached the 2.4 release earlier today with stability improvements. Here&#8217;s how to install it in all current Ubuntu releases. OpenShot 2.4 mainly features following changes: Vastly improved stability, improved undo\/redo history (now being saved inside each project file). Fixed Image Sequence exporting. Supports PNG, JPG, PPM, BMP and a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1372,32],"class_list":["post-7123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-openshot-video-editor","tag-video-editor"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123","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=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}