OpenShot 4.0 released [LWN.net]

Version 4.0 of the OpenShot video editor has been released.

OpenShot 4.0 has arrived, bringing some of the biggest creative workflow upgrades in our history. You can now record your screen, webcam, microphone, and system audio directly into a project. You can correct and grade footage with color wheels, curves, LUTs, and professional video scopes. You can also isolate subjects with locally run machine learning models and create everything from animated audio visualizations to cinematic film looks.

See the release notes for a full list of changes.

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This is great, but...

Posted Aug 31, 2026 23:09 UTC (Mon) by NightMonkey (subscriber, #23051) [Link] (1 responses)

...is it fully migrated to QT 6? :)

This is great, but...

Posted Sep 1, 2026 13:34 UTC (Tue) by Kamiccolo (subscriber, #95159) [Link]

pity that they were lagging with the migration, because due to that, some of the distros already dropped OpenShot from their repos...

Trepidation

Posted Sep 10, 2026 9:12 UTC (Thu) by davidgerard (guest, #100304) [Link]

I use OpenShot every day for the daily YouTube. Hope 4.0 is stable and usable, 'cos I'm still doing my actual work with a handrolled flatpak of 3.3.0 since 3.4.x and 3.5.x had weird bugs that kept being fixed and then coming back - the sort of thing that makes one treat upgrades as a threat.

(Yes, I hit the subreddit.)

OpenShot is super usable and really easy to get started in, but it's an underresourced project and it really shows.

But then, I just bounced straight off Kdenlive even though I keep telling myself I need to finally sit down and learn it.