OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source video editing application for Linux. It brings video clips, audio, and images together for films, animations, YouTube videos, tutorials, highlight reels, and other projects. It is suited to users who want to assemble and edit multimedia content from an approachable desktop application.

Its timeline supports layered video, audio, and image tracks, along with drag-and-drop editing, trimming, splitting, and frame-by-frame control. Users can apply customizable titles, fades, wipes, image overlays, masks, green-screen compositing, and video and audio effects. Animation tools include keyframes, motion, scaling, rotation, transparency, slow motion, and reverse playback.

OpenShot also provides color wheels, curves, LUTs, and video scopes for color work. Audio features include music and dialogue mixing, volume keyframes, waveforms, audio visualizations, and recording through a microphone or webcam. Local AI models can assist with object masking, while ComfyUI integration supports generation, enhancement, and custom workflows when the additional models and setup are available. Projects can combine popular video, audio, and image formats and export videos for online sharing or local playback, without watermarks or a subscription.

In the Music & Audio category, OpenShot fits users working with sound alongside visual media and those preparing edited videos for playback or sharing. MirrorNest mirrors the official Linux build directly on its own storage and scans it for malware before publishing. When installed through a Snap package, microphone and webcam recording requires the corresponding audio-record and camera permissions, and external-drive access requires removable-media permission.