Openshot Video Editor Keeps Crashing

[Beronike Watkin]

OpenShotis a professional, free, and open-source video editor for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This app comes with powerful editing tools and features, and many users opt to use this video editor to create videos.

To fix the OpenShot crashing problem, you can also reset this app to its default settings. To do this, open File Explorer on your Windows PC, go to C:UsersAdiministrator or your user name, and find the .openshot_qt folder. Right-click on this folder and choose Delete. After that, try to relaunch OpenShot.

MiniTool MovieMaker is one of the best OpenShot alternatives to create amazing videos. This app allows you to trim, split, crop, rotate your video, change the video playback speed, adjust the duration of images, apply transitions, filters, and motion effects to your footage, and add titles/captions/credits to your video.

Also, you can change the configuration of the OpenShot profile. Click the Change Profile button and change the profile with a lower video resolution. This only lowers preview rendering quality not affects the export quality.

It is extremely frustrating when you want to edit a video but OpenShot keeps crashing. Unfortunately, many Ubuntu users encounter this issue with OpenShot because of things like corrupt video files or misconfigured preferences.

Outdated versions of OpenShot can cause the application to crash. Fortunately, it's very simple to update OpenShot on Ubuntu, so one of the first things you should do is update the application and determine whether that was the source of the issue.

You can find previous stable releases of OpenShot by navigating to the Releases tab in the OpenShot GitHub repository. You can then download the AppImage file for your preferred version of OpenShot from the repo.

Once the AppImage file has finished downloading, navigate to the Downloads folder and right-click to view the file properties. Enable Executable as Program, exit file properties, and run the AppImage file.

The AppImage may not run if your system doesn't have FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) installed. If this is the case, open the terminal and enter the command below to install FUSE. Afterward, your OpenShot AppImage should run perfectly.

OpenShot sometimes crashes when it's improperly configured for the host system. If you want to reduce the likelihood of OpenShot crashing, there are a few settings you can adjust to help the application run properly.

Reduce the size of the video preview window if you think that the rendering is causing OpenShot to crash. Shrinking the preview window might also help with other signs of strain on your computer, such as lagginess and unresponsiveness.

You can resize the video preview window by selecting the side or bottom margin and dragging it. The preview window will automatically expand or shrink as you adjust the layout. Make the preview window as small as you can comfortably work with.

You should also adjust the default profile for your project by clicking the purple rectangular play button in the toolbar. Changing the default profile will make the preview render at a reduced quality.

If OpenShot crashes when you attempt to access the Preferences menu, you may need to try some of the other troubleshooting methods listed below. You should start by purging and reinstalling OpenShot because it will erase any custom configurations you may have set.

If OpenShot only crashes when you work with a particular file, your problems with OpenShot might be a result of the file itself. If you've any previous versions of the file available, you should try editing these versions with OpenShot to see if the crashing persists.

Also, check if you've moved media files to another location since the project was originally created. If you notice any errors prompting you about files not being found, you should try removing the missing files from your project or returning the files to their original directories.

Some users have found that files with an invalid load key error cause OpenShot to crash. If you have a file with this error, navigate to /home/username/.openshot_qt/recovery and check if a recovery file is available (make sure to substitute username with your actual username).

If a recovery file is available, copy it and navigate to the directory where you typically store your OpenShot projects. Paste the recovery file and see if the recovered version causes OpenShot to crash. Make sure to copy the file and avoid editing the original recovery file to prevent any further errors.

Although rare, some users find that even intensive troubleshooting doesn't stop OpenShot from crashing. If you find yourself in a similar situation, one of the best things you can do is open a bug report.

Submitting a bug report will ensure that the developers can address the issue and potentially prevent it from happening in the future. The best place to send your report is the OpenShot GitHub repository.

Unfortunately, not all users can find satisfying solutions to their issues with OpenShot. If you keep dealing with frustrating crashes when using OpenShot, it might be worth considering another video editor.

I am an amateur video creator since the last century. With the arrival of the XXIst century, I start to use video editors which are free (no cost). All video editors have a timeline showing the length of the video, a preview panel with the play & pause buttons that allows you to preview the current state of the video, and a 'Export' or 'Render' button that outputs the result to a file.

I begin by using Adobe Premiere, which allows a test period for free. Then I change to OpenShot in 2013. In the 'bad old days', OpenShot crashes so much frequently that I have to resort to save the project after every little change so it wouldn't be lost when (not if) a crash happened. Over the years, it becomes more stable. But at present, when I try to use it for the first time on Aramo, I find that I cannot do the simplest thing: to add a transition. You are just supposed to select a transition from the transitions panel and then drag and drop it in the proper place of the timeline. Nope, drag just doesn't work. Is there a way to insert a transition from the application menu? Nope. Is there a way to insert a transition from the context menu? Nope. After eleven years, transitions become unusable just because the interface forgets to allow you to drag their icon. So, it's time to either give up using transitions or to change the video editor. I am exploring the alternatives and writing this post at the same time, so this is kind of a live transmission.

Single-track is the simplest way to edit video. You make a list of segments by loading the video files into the editor and putting them in the right order, and then you use the editor to export the video that shows all segments together. The only single-track video editor provided by Trisquel is Kino.

Kino is the simplest video editor, and of course is single-track. It is so much simple that, in fact, it barely can be said to allow video edition. You make a 'Storyboard' by loading the list of segments to be used and ordering them. You cannot introduce images, you cannot add titles, you cannot add effects, you cannot combine videos of different sizes. Kino cannot work directly with MOV video files and so when you load one into it, it converts it to DV format first. The output size is very limited. There is no help - pressing F1 will produce no result. The only edit tool is the cut tool - it allows you to pick the part you want to use from every segment so, thank goodness, at least Kino saves you the need to cut the source video segments into smaller files in order to pick the part you want to use from every one.

Multi-track is the obvious way to edit a video. Aside from the timeline and the preview panel, you are provided with:

* a panel that shows the resources you add to the project, such as pictures, audio and video files.

* a timeline with a variable number of layers, for you to place video, audio and pictures on that layers.

When the video is exported and more than one layer have images, the images that are rendered are the ones in the superior layer. You can mute a layer, so you can combine the images of a layer with the sound of another. You can show a person speaking about an object, and then place in a superior layer a muted video or a still of the object to show up at the right moment to illustrate the speech. And you can make transitions between layers, with one video segment vanishing at the same time that another one comes up. The multi-track video editors provided by Trisquel are Kdenlive, LiVES, Olive, Pitivi and Shotcut.

The first contact with Kdenlive is overwhelming, so many things are shown in the screen, and so many new different concepts are introduced (key frames?). It has five different layouts, located in the top right of the window: Register, Edit, Sound, Effects and Colour, with the timeline present in the last four... but in a different position for each one. You can edit these layouts and create more. It accepts videos from 1920 x 1080, accepts pictures and audio. It cannot accept MP4 videos right away, but it needs to transcodify first and save them. It allows to use transitions and effects, though you'll need to read the online manual to learn exactly in which corner of the timeline layer you need to click to add them.

Kdenlive protests that pip3 is not available, though I notice not consequences for its absence. It also fails to update the content of the folders it reads, so you'll frequently need to click on the 'Refresh' icon of the load file dialog box.

LiVES has a 3.0.2 version number, yet it seems to still be a Beta version. It requires the user to define the video and audio details for the project right at the start, even if all you want is to open an already created project. The interface is unpolished. There is a text output panel reporting the details of every action performed, useful information for the application developer but unuseful for an user. There is a panel showing a list of effects and transitions, but clicking on them produces no effect at all - no, that list is there merely to inform you, if you want to apply that effects and transitions you actually have to go to the Effects menu and click on "Apply Effect to Region...". LiVES frequently becomes unstable: after editing a clip, the borders of the LiVES' window starts flickering and the window keeps placing itself over the rest of windows in Trisquel's MATE desktop, preventing the user to see the content of other windows. LiVES is strongly conceived to be used through keyboard - there are situations where using the mouse won't produce the desired selection, not even with the help of the Shift and Control keys. To select a portion of the timelime you need not to hold the left button, move and release, but hold right button, move and release. Wow. Hold right button. You need section 4.11.1 from the manual to learn that. When you need the manual to perform a simple operation that should be intuitive, you know the program is far from polished.

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