Are you looking for a simple video editor that is compatible with most current video and audio formats? Well, you will know that several meet the premise, but what if we also want it to be free and open source? You will have discarded several of them; therefore, the best possible alternative is to look at OpenShot Video Editor, a program that meets all these requirements.

OpenShot Video Editor is one of the most exciting video editors today, and it is known for having been released first for Linux. It is precisely for this reason that we can talk about software that not only does not cost us a penny but is also open source, so if you have enough knowledge, you can modify it.

How it works

OpenShot Video Editor will allow you to carry out the basic tasks that we look for in a video editor, which have to do with cutting the files, adding audio tracks, organizing different fragments according to your taste, or why not, placing transition effects to make them much more pleasing to the eye. And when you have finished, you can export the contents in the format you want.

This is not a minor detail when we talk about OpenShot Video Editor, considering that it is almost compatible with the most used audio and video formats. To mention them all would be impossible, but anyway, we are going to show you some of the most salient ones, the following: WAV, VOB, OGG, MP4, MP3, MOV, M4V, GIF, FLV, FLAC, DVD, AIFF, AC3, 3GP or 3G2.

It is time to move on to some of the more advanced options that OpenShot Video Editor puts at our disposal. For example, it is a tool that has been designed so that we can also add the subtitles we want to the videos, something very useful in case you have downloaded your favorite series or movie. It does not have the Spanish translation, so you can add it manually.

OpenShot Video Editor even shows that it has been thought for users from every point of view when we can select output formats without choosing them from a list, but based on the devices in which we are going to play the videos. This is essential for less advanced users, as it will be enough for you to choose, for example, Play Station to get a video to play on this device, regardless of its format.

OpenShot Video Editor can also be handy for people who want to edit their professional videos. It has features such as adding watermarks, which are perfect so no one can steal what you produce. As you can see, we are in the presence of a service that can adapt to any use we want to give it.

Do you want to add fun elements to your videos, such as 3D animations or others you have generated, to customize them? With OpenShot Video Editor, you can decide if you want the video to play in slow motion or faster than average.

We have to stop at the user interface of OpenShot Video Editor to say in the first instance that, unfortunately, it is not translated into other languages, and we wanted to start with the only weak point it has. From here, they are all positive, since it has a well achieved and very own aspect, which makes it not only beautiful to look at, but also very easy to move between its contents.

The best

We liked almost everything about OpenShot Video Editor. The variety of tools it offers, the fact that it is entirely free and multiplatform, and its excellent compatibility with many audio and video formats. These are just some reasons we can recommend this software, although we are sure each user will have their own.

The worst thing

Something that rarely happens is that we do not find significant flaws in the applications we analyze, which is why OpenShot Video Editor has become one of the few that can boast of it. Except for the absence of a translation into other languages, which never hurts, we must say that this program has no weak points.

Rating

In summary, we can safely say that OpenShot Video Editor is one of the best video editors we have access to today, one capable of offering us the essential functions and other much more advanced ones without charging us for it nor complicating the processes as it happens with other similar tools. No matter what you want to do with your videos, you can do it with OpenShot Video Editor.