OpenShot Video Editor

Please Support Other Linux Distributions and Windows

Asked by zilrro

Hi,

First of all congratulations for your work so far. It is a very good effort to fill this gap in the open source software. Nonetheless, if you are serious about it you should support other distributions (e.g Fedora, Red Hat) and not just Ubuntu. Or even better, the program should be multiplataform... If the quality of the program is as good as it seems, you will be killing a very good project at its birth whith such enormous limitation.

For example, I am teaching a multimedia discipline and have Windows and Fedora on the university computers. With two completely different OSs, one of them Linux, I will still not be able to install your software. And I am looking for an open source software regarding non linear video for a long time... So, as important as the development of the software please make it widely available for installation.

Please take these words as an incentive in the right direction and positive criticism. I am aware of the work and effort you are investing to provide this project to all of us. But as important as the development of the software is its availability!

Best regards,

zilrro

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Best Andy Finch (fincha) said : 		#1

There's no reason why Openshot can't be built on distributions such as Fedora or Red Hat. Provided the required dependencies are available it should work. You may want to check Dave Phillips article in the Linux Journal, that includes some tips on how to install it from source.

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/introducing-openshot

Openshot won't be available on Windows - the MLT Library that we use does not run on Windows. Openshot was conceived to address the lack of Video Editors available on Linux - Windows already has quite a few.

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zilrro (zilrro) said : 		#2

Andy,

Thanks for your reply. I will try your suggestion but an RPM package would be more straightforward and reach, many more users. From my experience with my students, they manage to install from packages (using yum or at least a graphical package manager) but when they hear "installation from the source code"... And this is precisely the reason why so many users run from Linux: software installation and configuration is not straightforward. Nevertheless, I suggest that the steps described by Dave Phillips (or a link) be located on the Download section.

In Windows there is some freeware/opensource software for non linear video edition. However, none from those that I investigated so far is an acceptable alternative to the commercial applications.

Please continue the good work.

Best regards,

Zilrro

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zilrro (zilrro) said : 		#3

Thanks Andy Finch, that solved my question.

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Vadim Peretokin (vperetokin) said : 		#4

Packages are definitely easier, but not everyone can provide packages for every single Linux distribution out there. It would be great if OpenShot had the attention of Fedora packagers such that they can improve the video editing experience for their OS.

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grof (grof) said : 		#5

Hello.

I'm the Fedora packager of MLT and Kdenlive packages. So, I thinking about packaking OpenShot, too.
All dependecies of OpenShot are available on Fedora and RPM Fusion repos.

So, when I find some free time, I will packaged this for Fedora ;)

regards,
Zarko

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zilrro (zilrro) said : 		#6

Hello Zarko,

Thanks very much for making this software more easily available for the "RPM" community. It will cover a very important field not yet provided by the open source software.

Regards,

Zilrro

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grof (grof) said : 		#7

@zilrro

Thanks! But please, do not forget Kdenlive! This video editor for Linux (and KDE) is very good and it's also MLT based. ;)

Of course, OpenShot is in development yet, but it is good to know that Linux has at least two good video editors (one for KDE, and one for GNOME ;) )

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grof (grof) said : 		#8

I just finished Fedora 12 RPM package of OpenShot, so please feel to try this.

Link to RPM is here:
http://wiki.open.hr/~zpintar/fedora-12/openshot-0.9.54-1.fc12.noarch.rpm

Of course, the same package is commited to RPM Fusion to review, here:

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993

regards, Zarko

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Jonathan Thomas (jonoomph) said : 		#9

Thanks for your effort!

On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 6:14 AM, grof <email address hidden>wrote:

> Question #91755 on OpenShot Video Editor changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/openshot/+question/91755
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> grof posted a new comment:
> I just finished Fedora 12 RPM package of OpenShot, so please feel to try
> this.
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> Link to RPM is here:
> http://wiki.open.hr/~zpintar/fedora-12/openshot-0.9.54-1.fc12.noarch.rpm<http://wiki.open.hr/%7Ezpintar/fedora-12/openshot-0.9.54-1.fc12.noarch.rpm>
>
> Of course, the same package is commited to RPM Fusion to review, here:
>
> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=993
>
> regards, Zarko
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