OpenShot


OpenShot Video Editor is a free and open-source video editor for FreeBSD, Linux, Haiku, macOS, and Windows. The project was started in August 2008 by Jonathan Thomas, with the objective of providing a stable, free, and friendly to use video editor.
OpenShot's core video editing functionality is implemented in a C++ library, libopenshot. OpenShot uses the Qt toolkit and offers a Python API.
Since version 2.0.6, OpenShot is now a cross-platform application. OpenShot is also available as PortableApps for Windows since 2020.

Video formats and codecs supported

OpenShot supports commonly used codecs that are supported by FFmpeg, including WebM, AVCHD, HEVC, and audio codecs such as mp3 and aac. The program can render MPEG4, ogv, Blu-ray, and DVD video, and Full HD videos for uploading to Internet video web sites.

Reviews

A 2010 review of version 1.0 found it to be of alpha quality and not suited for productive use by the general public.
On March 31, 2017, a review by Bryan Lunduke on Network World lauded Openshot 2.3 for "its new transformation tool and title editor—as well as its smooth performance". Lunduke also positively mentioned the Linux distribution-agnostic packaging under usage of AppImage.