OpenShot Video Library (libopenshot) is a free, open-source C++ library dedicated to delivering high quality video editing, animation, and playback solutions to the world.
- Cross-Platform (Linux, Mac, and Windows)
- Multi-Layer Compositing
- Video and Audio Effects (Chroma Key, Color Adjustment, Grayscale, etc…)
- Animation Curves (Bézier, Linear, Constant)
- Time Mapping (Curve-based Slow Down, Speed Up, Reverse)
- Audio Mixing & Resampling (Curve-based)
- Audio Plug-ins (VST & AU)
- Audio Drivers (ASIO, WASAPI, DirectSound, CoreAudio, iPhone Audio, ALSA, JACK, and Android)
- Telecine and Inverse Telecine (Film to TV, TV to Film)
- Frame Rate Conversions
- Multi-Processor Support (Performance)
- Python and Ruby Bindings (All Features Supported)
- Qt Video Player Included (Ability to display video on any QWidget)
- Unit Tests (Stability)
- All FFmpeg Formats and Codecs Supported (Images, Videos, and Audio files)
- Full Documentation with Examples (Doxygen Generated)
Detailed instructions for building libopenshot and libopenshot-audio for each OS. These instructions are also available in the /docs/ source folder.
Beautiful HTML documentation can be generated using Doxygen.
make doc
(Also available online: http://openshot.org/files/libopenshot/)
Are you interested in becoming more involved in the development of OpenShot? Build exciting new features, fix bugs, make friends, and become a hero! Please read the step-by-step instructions for getting source code, configuring dependencies, and building OpenShot.
You can report a new libopenshot issue directly on GitHub:
https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot/issues
- https://www.openshot.org/ (Official website and blog)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot/ (source code and issue tracker)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/libopenshot-audio/ (source code for audio library)
- https://github.com/OpenShot/openshot-qt/ (source code for Qt client)
- https://launchpad.net/openshot/
Copyright (c) 2008-2019 OpenShot Studios, LLC.
OpenShot Library (libopenshot) is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
OpenShot Library (libopenshot) is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along with OpenShot Library. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.
To release a closed-source product which uses libopenshot (i.e. video editing and playback), commercial licenses are also available: contact sales@openshot.org for more information.