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Edit Video Like a Professional

YOU’LL NEED THIS

OPENSHOT VIDEO EDITOR

Download this free app from www.openshot.org.

BLENDER

This open-source 3D tool is available from www.blender.org.

INKSCAPE

Use this free app from https://inkscape.org to create titles.

JUST HOW MANY PHOTOS AND VIDEO CLIPS have you accumulated over the years? Whether you’ve got dedicated equipment or just love snapping and videoing on your phone, now is the time to do something creative with them. OpenShot is a brilliant video-editing tool that’s relatively simple to learn, yet packed with features that enable you to turn last holiday’s rough video footage into a polished movie you’ll be happy to show to friends and family. In this tutorial, we run through the program’s main features to help you bring your footage together, edit it, add special effects and titles, and finally export it for sharing with others.

The tutorial has been written for Windows users, but can be easily adapted to work in Linux, too—we recommend downloading the latest 64-bit appimage and running that directly, rather than installing the outdated version of OpenShot through your package manager.

Note: If you’re running the current stable version of OpenShot (2.4.4), you need to download Blender 2.79b () if you want to create animated titles with it. If you’re running the daily version of OpenShot, it should work with the latest

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