# OpenShot Video Editor

OpenShot Video Editor is an award-winning free and open-source video editor for Linux, Mac, and Windows, and is dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

Repository: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/openshot-video-editor
Homepage: http://www.openshot.org
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: video-editing, video-production, openshot, python, c-plus-plus, ffmpeg, gplv3, qt5, video
Last push: 2026-08-25T20:07:38+00:00
Link (homepage): http://www.openshot.org
Link (site_page): https://www.openshot.org/features
Link (site_page): https://www.openshot.org/about

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 54, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4111, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": 147, "gap_med": 94, "n_releases_24m": 4}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 6203, forks 762 (observed 2026-08-28T04:09:39.771171+00:00)

## What it is
OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor built with Python/PyQt5 and a C++ FFmpeg-based backend (libopenshot). It offers timeline-based editing with unlimited tracks, keyframe animations, transitions, effects, and 3D animated titles.

## Use cases
- trim and cut video clips on a timeline
- add keyframe animations and transitions to videos
- create scrolling credits and title cards
- remove background with chroma key
- slow down or speed up video clips
- mix and edit audio tracks with waveforms
- export videos in many codecs and formats

## When to choose
- you need a free cross-platform GUI video editor for Linux, Mac, or Windows
- you want unlimited tracks, keyframe animation, and effects without paying for commercial software
- you need broad format support via FFmpeg including EDL/XML import and export

## When to avoid
- you need a command-line or scriptable video processing pipeline rather than a GUI
- you require professional-grade color grading or collaborative editing workflows
- you need guaranteed stability for mission-critical production, as some features like hardware encoding are experimental

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: video-processing, audio-processing, animation, gui
- domain: media, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cross-platform, python, cpp
- tags: video-editor, ffmpeg, qt5, keyframe-animation, video-effects, timeline-editing, gplv3, 3d-titles, video, linux, macos, desktop

## Member repositories
- OpenShot/openshot-qt (main) score 83
- OpenShot/libopenshot (backend) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.771171+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T17:47:19.202815+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:09:39.771171+00:00, sha abcbd2fbac99)
  - homepage: http://www.openshot.org (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:51.379641+00:00, sha 9aa285b7eb22)
  - site_page: https://www.openshot.org/features (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:51.390008+00:00, sha f9cedc20a17f)
  - site_page: https://www.openshot.org/about (fetched 2026-08-29T08:43:51.392583+00:00, sha 019e6057e70a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.