OpenShot 1.4.1 released and ubuntu ppa installation instructions included

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What is new in OpenShot 1.4.1

Highlights include:

* New 3D animation (wireframe text)
* New Titles (gold)
* New Effects (fish eye)
* New Animation Presets
* Support for Blender 2.6.X
* Localization fixes (seg faults, audio volume, rotation effect)
* UI bugs (disappearing icons using some GTK themes)
* Improved Help Manual
* Improved Title UI (interactive font list)

Install OpenShot 1.4.1 in ubuntu

Open the terminal and run the following commands

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install openshot frei0r-plugins

If you want to use 3d titles you have to install blender using the following command

sudo apt-get install blender

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2 Responses

  1. Rod says:

    Openshot does not start, I get a segmentation fault in libmlt (see /var/log/syslog):

    Feb 4 12:55:13 rod-desktop kernel: [ 8557.715975] openshot[2471]: segfault at 4 ip 01756ed7 sp bfe9a910 error 4 in libmlt.so.0.7.6[174b000+26000]

    This is what I get when I try to start openshot from commandline:

    $ openshot

    ————————- ERROR 1 ——————————
    Failed to import ‘from openshot import main’
    Error Message: cannot import name main
    —————————————————————-
    Gtk-Message: Failed to load module “rgba”
    ——————————–
    OpenShot (version 1.4.1)
    ——————————–
    Process no longer exists: 32043. Creating new pid lock file.
    mlt_repository_init: failed to dlopen /usr/lib/mlt/libmltavformat.so
    (/usr/lib/mlt/libmltavformat.so: symbol ff_cropTbl, version LIBAVCODEC_53 not defined in file libavcodec.so.53 with link time reference)
    No LADSPA plugins were found!

    Check your LADSPA_PATH environment variable.

    Detecting formats, codecs, and filters…
    Violación de segmento

  2. Zedbloc says:

    I was able to start OpenShot, create a project, and save that project.

    However, when I opened OpenShot and tried to open that saved project…the project opened as semi-blank: no content was visible, and the viewer was all black.

    @zedbloc

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