r/OpenShot

Having what appears to be a common issue with Openshot 3.51 where the separate exported audio track (converted both to MP3 and WAV for comparison) clips and crackles for no apparent reason. I was really liking this editor until finding out about this really annoying error and seeing the "fix" is to make sure the sample rates match when there's no obvious way to check that (previous advice dates to 2020 and a lot has clearly changed in 6 years...) so I'm at an impasse and considering using different software. Massive shame as this is a substantial upgrade from the misery that is Microsoft Clipchamp but this is just a stupid error that's only now come up after dozens of exports with no settings changed whatso ever.

Any advice? Thanks.

I went to export a project I'd finished, but the playback speed on the preview was slowed down. Checked the properties on all the video files used but they all said 1.000 on time. Closed the project and reopened and suddenly it was back to normal.

Why did this happen and how do I know it won't export a slowed down video?

I've been editing( 1st time ) for a while now and im trying to preview the 1st 1m15s of my vid and nothing is showing up. How would I go about fixing it?

bonjour,

voila j'ai mis la dernière version de open shot et j'ai un problème avec. avant je pouvait faire avancer ou reculer la ligne de temps avec le droite gauche de la roulette de ma sourie la je peux plus le faire c'est un peu genant surtout que le curseur en bas et tout petit. je suis sure qu'il y a une astuce mais je la connais pas.

deuxieme chose, avant quand on importait un fichier il etait mis en bas maintenant il se met par ordre alphabétique je pense donc faut le retrouver dans le tas de fichier.

comme je suis sur un film de plus d'une heure imaginez le truc.

merci a ceux qui savent.

by simply restarting computer before export .it saves my project perfectly and my export time has significantly improved .

try it

Openshot 3.5.1 AppImage; Debian (Trixie) 13.4.0; AMD_64; - As Openshot opens there is an entry in the terminal window progress messages as "ALSA lib conf.c:4029:(snd_config_hooks_call) Cannot open shared library libasound_module_conf_pulse.so (libFLAC.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)" Everything else appears normal but, obviously, playback of MP4 has no audio. There IS a file of that name, i.e. libasound_module_conf_pulse.so, in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/alsa-lib (and a link to it in /usr/lib) but evidently that is not where openshot is expecting it to be. Can somebody give me the expected path? I can surely create a link there to point to the installed path.

Related? Error regarding libFLAC.so.8 - in my Debian release the libFLAC version is already up to libFLAC.so.11 and possibly that mismatch, so.8 vs. so.11, is the root cause of the failure. I guess I was expecting such required libraries to be built in to the AppImage. I understand that Debian is not the same as other distributions, and I am sympathetic with the OpenShot developers' challenge to maintain compatibility with all the distributions and their respective updates and dependencies. But... hopefully somebody can offer a solution, or workaround, for my "no sound" situation. Thanks in advance. 😄

I saw that you can slow it down by half or more but I want to slow it down a bit, so that a one-minute file plays for 70 seconds

Is there more simple way to add a text paragraph? Even with inkscape it is complicated.

I recently updated OpenShot and when encoding, I've always used the same procedure, going to the "simple" tab and changing the quality from High to Medium, then heading into the advanced tab and changing the bit rate/quality to 2 MB from 5 MB. Video quality hasn't always been super important.

NOW, the BR/Q is in crf and the default is 23. I know a higher number is lower quality, but what's the equivalent if I was changing it from 5 to 2 MB if it's now 23 to ?? crf?