OpenShot: Zero To Hero Guide

OpenShot: Zero to Hero

This guide aims to give you all the resources you need in order to become a video editing ninja, using OpenShot.

The Basics:

Here is a primer to get you started with OpenShot, made by Jonathan Thomas, the creator of OpenShot, himself. The user guide is also available online. The following links will help you understand and use OpenShot:

1. A quick video to demonstrate the OpenShot workflow.
2. An in-depth beginners guide to OpenShot I
3. An in-depth beginners guide to OpenShot II
4. A guide to trimming and slicing videos in OpenShot

Intermediate:

1. Chroma-Keying (Green/Blue Screens) in OpenShot

Advanced:

Keyframes

Keyframes are super powerful tools you can leverage to take your video editing to the next level. Here is a video that was made in OpenShot, by animating still images using keyframes. In OpenShot, almost everything is keyframe-able! Keyframes, and it's easy implementation, is probably one of the greatest features of OpenShot. The following links will help you learn and master keyframes. And they're super easy in OpenShot!

1. Introduction to keyframes:

• Animated introduction to keyframes
• A general introduction to keyframes
• Robot voice explains the meaning of keyframe, just in case you're too bored. lol
• Keyframing using computers in the very early days, just in case you want to watch.

2. Keyframe-animation in OpenShot
3. Zooming in on videos using Keyframes
4. Another keyframe tutorial using OpenShot
5. Almost all the properties (of a clip) that one can keyframe in OpenShot.

Apart from that, in OpenShot, even the effects are keyframe-able!