14 DAY TRIAL // Jonathan Thomas, the creator of the open-source and cross-platform OpenShot video editor, announced OpenShot 2.4, a major release that adds new freeze and freeze & zoom presets, improves stability, as well as undo/redo history.
First and foremost, OpenShot 2.4 wants to be a stability release that fixes a bunch of bugs and issues reported by users since previous versions of the applications. Most importantly, it addresses a nasty issue that was apparently the leading cause of numerous crashes. Therefore, it is recommended that all users update to OpenShot 2.4 or later as soon as possible.
"I have spent the past few months working along side a few other brave developers (huge thanks to Craig and Peter), determined to solve a very difficult stability issue, which is the leading cause of crashes in the OpenShot 2.x source code," said Jonathan Thomas in the release announcement.
Video editor improvements
And now for the goodies that users will be able to enjoy if they update OpenShot to version 2.4, as this release improves the undo/redo history functionality by allowing the respective actions to be stored in the project file, and also improving the usability of the automatic save system as it can now save your undo and redo history.
If you want to quickly insert freezes into you video clips, you should know that OpenShot 2.4 introduces new Freeze and Freeze & Zoom presets, the image sequence exporting capabilities were updated to support JPG, PNG, JPG, BMP, PPM, and various other image formats, and there's now "Video Only" and "Audio Only" export options available.
To increase the speed of separating audio streams from the video one, this release removes "show waveform" from the standalone audio menu. You'll find the full changelog below if you're curious to know what exactly was fixed in OpenShot 2.4, which you can download for GNU/Linux, macOS or Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website or the official homepage of the project.