Masks & Transitions | OpenShot Video Editor Tutorial

[@cmtsdt]

Without a doubt, one of the best free video editors out there. Thanks for making this available.

[@Queezbo]

OpenShot just gets better and better the more I learn about it.

[@yugioldchannel]

When you put the mask on I was like "Ah, the sky's gone. Cool" and then when you put the video behind I just went :O. I just downloaded OpenShot today. Gonna be using it in all my videos. Amazing tutorials!

[@motoflix3076]

Open Shot is an open source software that helping Bangladeshi editors a lot. Thanks Mr. Thomas.

[@chrislabonne7154]

Jonathan, thanks so much for all your Open Shot tutorial vids. They have helped me a lot. Free programs don't usually have much in the way of help so your help has been very much appreciated.

[@Jetsettingpair]

This is and your earlier tutorials are excellent. I'm moving over to openshot and these are super helpful to see what I can do.

[@dangernba]

Your tutorials are great, but as I'm new to video editing, I'd like to see a complete video editing, from the beginning to the end, so I could understand the workflow better. Thank you very much for your instructions, greetings from Brazil.

[@gracieecreations]

Thank you so much I wish I had started watching your tutorials earlier. Openshot is so useful for me. It made transitioning into video editing so much easier. Please do post as many as you can 😅.

[@DeepakKumarBairwa]

Please make more tutorial videos on openshot!

[@roadbricks8212]

Yes, need more videos. Because detailed information are very small.

[@thedancinghippo2141]

ye

[@sdiggly]

Thank you for doing this! Keep referencing this when I create cinemagraphs. You also seem like a really good dude, which is my I support u with a monthly donation

[@GlitterAndMetal]

Yes! Thank you! This is just what I needed. Pretty new at compositing and couldn't figure out what to do to make a static mask rather than a transition. Great tutorial and super easy to understand.

[@alcamerc9923]

In all the videos shown I didn’t see a basic tutorial to work with a video made previously, like that of a simulator game I am interested in. The basics shown are great, but point me in the right direction to manipulate an actual video, how to deleted unwanted footage, errors in recording, etc. thank you. By the way great video voice, calming, the right speed, and easy to understand diction. Thanks

[@GurdeepAcademy]

Great video and really helpful! I couldn't get a grasp on how the setuper works but it's all clear now.

[@jamminwolfie]

AWESOME lesson, and I'm learning all sorts of stuff. What got my attention, though, was your ending! That was cool :) Thanks for spending all your time teaching us your program! ...wolfie

[@ShibaMcDripNu]

Thanks! Very clear and concise guide.

[@ExtremeWays4Bourne]

Wow! You are amazing at teaching something so complex. And you are a good at image editing too. 🤪

[@ihssancanmturk3842]

This is an amazing method in Openshot, I like this lesson. Thank you a lot!

[@consbeats7894]

Bruh , ur videos are perfect . I understand everything and all thanks so much for share this 👑

[@GrandpaBill]

We need a video on editing the audio track and removing background noises

[@specialservicesequipment393]

You can split the audio out of the track into a seperate trakc, then render only that track into a .mp4 file. Load that rendered audio into AUDACITY, and work your noise filtering from there, export it from Audacity as a high quality .wav and then add it back into openshot and export the video and the new audio track back out into an .mp4 or whatever you prefer.

[@subhradeepganguly1740]

Yep... Use a daw software for audio processing

[@marcusk.4189]

Hahaha, awesome ending :-D Thanks for this series. I almost bought a video editor from the PDF company, but thanks to this series, I can stick to OSS :-)

[@UncleLunk]

Cool lesson. I didn't know this was possible. Cheers!

[@dimanovikov8808]

I've found your openshot tutorials really helpful. Can you PLEASE make a video on effects in openshot?

[@sir_dovaz]

This was really awesome, thanks for everything!!

[@prafullagiri8420]

Yaaayyyy! New Video ✌😊🎥🎬 Awesome!!! [Now all I need is for you to sort the Pull Requests on GitHub.] Absolutely love OpenShot!!! Thank you so very much! :)

[@CarolineFreegard]

Why do I get black screen temporarily at the end of a transition, please? Openshot is brilliant, I am 73 and learning to video edit for free. You are truly amazing, thank you so much!

[@soothingrelaxingsound5431]

ITS REALLY WORKED LOL THANK YOU DUDE

[@mathdrmath9988]

Very helpful video. Thanks. I have a question : how can I add custom transition in case I use openshot AppImage ?

[@michelepaino]

Thank you Jonathan, you are definitely The Authority on OpenShot!!! :-) I have a kind question, is it possible to cross-mix back and forth between two simultaneous (synchronized) feeds? Think of it as an A/B roll where camera A is on the audience and camera B is on the actors. Both cameras (both timelines) are in sync. I do not want to chop up the two synced tracks into lots of small pieces. I want to temporarily cross fade (or wipe out) the upper track so that the lower track will appear, and then bring the upper track back in again, and do this several times. Is this possible in OpenShot? Thanks!!!!!

[@javierflores1414]

Thank you Jonathan, very well explain......and so helpful...

[@DannySullivanMusic]

Transition talk begins at 8:58

[@nubmaster69420]

I like those video. Thank you. Please make more video.

[@mrinalverma9724]

Superb

[@Kloxbyn]

Great video, very informative. Suggestion: Buy a pop filter for your mic (those 'p' sounds can reek havoc on the eardrums).

[@cwak-001]

Cool video.... but what's a keyframe?

[@thinkact5576]

Thank you Jonathan for the video. Good luck

[@Lillyflower-J88]

Jonathan thomas.Great thank tutoral, thank you! Subscribed. Is this editor so capable that you can completeley cut out a selected moving object from a video footage and place onto another moving video footage. For example the first video (A) is of a car moving in a busy street. I select just the moving car as my subject, and cut it out of the video (A) then place it onto a second video (B) which is footage of speeding cars on a racing track. So that my cut out moving car from video (A) is now driving in a new and different environment on a racing track with other cars in video (B) The end result is that now there is only one video screen still in motion throughout its duration but hosting the moving cut out car from video (A). hope tht makes sense. Sorry im a bit long winded. .

[@mariannevigeland6044]

Jonathan, Thank you. Can we fade in a video image with ambient audio? Will a visual mask affect the audio track?

[@prafullagiri8420]

I have always done masking this way, and wondered what the use of the 'alpha mask' effect was... Could we have the alpha mask effect adjust the keyframe all on it's own please? That way, one could just drag-and-drop the effect and it would just work? Or maybe you could add some more neat features to the alpha mask effect like 'feather' and stuff. Perhaps even have the an 'invert' property on that effect. Maybe we could also have OpenShot automatically keep certain oarts transparent if we want to keyframe the mask so that we can have easy walk-by-transition effect that Edgar Wright uses so well. Thank you again for the great software, Mr. Thomas! :)

[@prafullagiri8420]

A major benifit of having an 'alpha mask' effect actually work and turn any greyscale image into a mask would be that the 'alpha mask-ish' parameters can be adjusted from the effect properties while the images clip properties can still be tweaked to make the mask move or resize and stuff: opening up a lot of new creative possibilities - Walk-by-transition, to name a very basic one.

[@shameervh9132]

Nice video

Great work, thanks!

[@KLP99]

Open shot is broken now on my Linux Mint 19.3 installation. I've been using it for several years, and love it. It's simple, intuitive, and clean. BUT, after the latest update released, it freezes at every video transition, like going between the introduction Title and the main video as I have always faded between. It just stops playing for minutes at a time, then when it does continue, my brain is elsewhere and I can't tell if the transition worked. I can't even get to masking, green screen, etc. It's so bad I downloaded KDEnlive and used it for my last video. Painful!

[@ashwinkumar5065]

yeah it is laggy as hell on Ubuntu. Works fine in Windows though.

[@Michael01OnRBLXmore]

How about masking a moving object and tracking it while the object is moving?

[@mr1enrollment]

Very Nice Tool Jonathan!

[@blueashdogs3639]

DO you have any tutorials on adding title pages and subtitles?

[@snowmaske]

That's so pretty

[@joechew1412]

Thanks JOnathan. i am actually looking for video intro. and this mask and transition can give me something to work on. thanks

[@JWCinPDX]

Howdy...I hope you read the comments. I'd like to know about importing outside effects -- such as transitions -- into Open Shot. Can I do it using the same technique you used to import the mask? Also, is there any way to import my Windows font file into Open Shot? And how about text animation? Any way to do that?

[@thomasskjrupmortensen2901]

hallo, will you help me please? it works if I use the standard transition that automatically appears when I lay two tracks on top of each other. But it doesn't work when I manually do it. do you know why?

[@mutlugameofhb]

Önemli bir sorum var. Videomu dönüştürmem ve Dışa Aktarmaya hazır. Ancak, aktarıldığımda video kalitesi çok kıyafetleri. Videoyu sildiğim için yükleyemediğim ama çizilmiş resimden alınan resimlerden toplamda 6 GB boyunca devam eden resimlerden 61 MB görüntülerdeki korkunç görüntülerden (doğal olarak). Bunu nasıl aşabilirim? Bu videolardan orjinal olarak çünkü basit ve kullanışlı... amam şum büyük bir hatada herhangi bir kalite talep olarak nasıl yapılır? Yani editlenmiş ama başlangıçta bir şekilde nasıl yapılır? Lütfen yardım edin. - Özellikler İşlemci: intel i3-10100F Ram: 16GB Grafik Kartı: GTX 1650 SUPER OpenShot Sürüm: 2.6.1

[@DavidHassell2004]

Hey great tutorials, awesome product. Have you done a session on overlaying text to images or video?

[@adamward2175]

Can we draw masks in Openshot, like we woudl create a mask layer inside of Aftereffects (This editor you've created looks greate btw )

[@didntdoit7938]

Very useful….thank you!…..and in English too!

[@hamkaprastika621]

it work on my pc thx bro vеry much

[@jkloe]

thank you for the tutorials!

[@pps-praktikumprakaryasiswa5419]

Hi Jon.. thanks for your useful videos about OpenShot.. Great! I'm still waiting for next version of OpenShot that's can add, edit, manupulate, etc on TEXT... thanks

[@ejohn951]

Great Job.

[@FinixFunny]

Thank you so much for these tutorials! :D

[@lookoutforthetrain2651]

this is just a question, but did you edit this with openshot? (I assume so xd)

[@ThunderStormFortnite]

bruh

[@eyesyt7571]

Use fill tool to fill the sky.

[@EmmanuelReyna1985]

Hey Jonathan! that was not obvious at all. Actually there's so much to still learning about OpenShot. I've been struggling about dimentions. For exemple, how can you, a video 1920x1080 px, convert it to a video for a story for instagram. Is that possible? I can't find anything about it so I'd really appreciate your answer. thanks!

[@diopad1]

You are really Amazing and lifesaving ! Great!

[@sekolahyoutube8241]

smart trick!! well done

[@saraalk9328]

Hi there, thanks for your videos and your hard working due to you I learned a lot at short time and can you please teach us how to erase the background of a video if this possible in OpenShot ??

[@rekamihalykovi8992]

Hi there, When I remove keyframe after adding transition to my background the same happens as in your video. But when I set the value to 0,00 it jumps to -0,00 and the keyframe is there again. Can you help me what the problem can be? Thank you!

[@seasonfilms9375]

....So is this an alternative to after effects? We can rotoscope and create luma masks?

[@feliciataylor2627]

First time using Openshot the other night. I have the hang of it but I would like to add some voice over/audio. Do u have any suggestions? I lost my audio or had it muted when making my video. Help!!

[@bocup_]

you said see you in the next video maaan... please comeback I want to learn more

[@jettercool]

I love this video editor but it has a lot of lag on my computer. Any idea of why this is happening?

[@gusrick]

How do I create a transition from a white flash to my clip?

[@nasrullahiolamide]

I created a video with pictures and audio files but I noticed that when it's get to the transition effects, the audio breaks, what can be done to correct that. Thanks in advance

[@JingTheChickenWing]

I noticed this is normally just a glitch, and when exported the effects and audio flow smoothly. It's annoying as hell when editing though, since you need to know the exact timing while editing. I still struggle through this, sometimes saving and exit will work for a bit. I have a fairly mid-high end pc so I shouldnt be experiencing these "lagging" issues so it must be a problem with openshot itself. Kind of disappointed as everything else is great to work with! Please reply if anyone has found a solution to this!

[@JingTheChickenWing]

If you're experiencing an error when exporting, one of the clips/audio/transitions corrupted and you'll have to re add them. If it crashes at a certain % during export, find the time in your video where this happens (if your video is 5 minutes, 50% is at 2:30) and you should see which clip is causing the problem

[@lovehistory4691]

@nasrullahi shittuolamide I have the same problem. Did you somehow fix it?

[@lovehistory4691]

@@JingTheChickenWing For me this stays even after I export it :( I've noticed not only in Openshot, but also in Filmora and Windows movie maker.

[@nasrullahiolamide]

@@lovehistory4691 No, I haven't 😓

[@1234588001]

hi great vid how do i bring 3 min audio in to full screen thanks.

[@leefrost9095]

Johnathan I need help on open shot I have closed all the boxes and just left with basically 3 track lines on my screen how do I reopen the other mini screens back up ( the folder/file box and the box you watch it on ) please help

[@mothersweetsionil8796]

Hi! I am new youtuber. I am starting to learned from your tutorial about openshot coz I am gonna use this editor to my video. I hope your willing to help me for that. And I don't know how to use the converter ? It is needed?

[@vipinbhalla386]

What is the software that you are using for editing photo. It doesnot look like photoshop

[@lovehistory4691]

Every time I use 2 or three video tracks and transitions between them or simply overlapping the clips, I hear some sound every time it transit the place where video tracks merged or transition is used, like audio breaks or something. Openshot isn't the only video editor where I have this issue. The same thing is with Filmora, Windows movie maker and some online video editors. How can I get rid of this? Thank you :)

[@BT-Hypnotic]

Hi Jonathan, is it possible to make a clickable hyperlink in any video with openshot ?

[@imarcosmmv6333]

LOL REALLY WORK!

[@DeeeFoo]

How do I make a rectangular mask? For example, let's say I have an image on the timeline. I want the full image to be shown for the first few seconds, and then I want to hide the rest of the image so that only a selected rectangular portion of the image is still visible, to emphasize focus on that portion. I then want to be able to move that selected portion around the frame. To get a better idea of what I mean, please watch my latest uploaded video on my channel. As you can see, I first show the image of the character's profile. Then, I isolate the portion of the image that shows their Action Flow, then have it shift to the bottom right of the frame. I made that video in Hitfilm Express, but I want to learn how to do it in Openshot as well.

[@ManojKumar-op7ot]

I will use the Crop effect.

[@awesomedose]

Sir can you bring tutorials of kdenlive video editer please sir......

[@Victoria-oz2nk]

I really can't find this transition folder!!! Please help!

[@valkia-innos4972]

Is there any possibility that OpenShot can have interactive masks like in Cinelerra?

[@kat-k.d.reidsbooks398]

Can I use this for cloning in Openshot?

[@fuego8612]

where did you get the sky effect from?

[@Rajorsi]

Cannot able change the duration of the transitions. Please help!

[@Dr.CandanEsin]

Which program you used to take video of your tutorial?

[@factworld4375]

Waiting for more :)

[@sukumarreddyduvvuru3201]

Sir, which screen recorder did you use?

[@arpangiri4039]

Thank you so much for the video.

[@EvanJames-u4z]

Thank you so much

[@theperfecthd8067]

hello what player can i use to play the saved videos??

[@masoodzadi4855]

thANX URE A LIFESAVER

[@hengunmok]

what is name background music?

[@sentelnbalivebolton7399]

How do u remove a water mark from a video using open shot

[@ZemaBeats]

Thank you.

[@GullySyde28]

Thanks man

[@keithdunwoody1302]

Cool!

[@marmerhz]

Awesome thnx!

[@NoCoolNamesRemain]

I can't wait till I can try this out--just as soon as scrubbing doesn't lock up the CPU : /

[@justawfulgamer7738]

is this still being supported? i cant even register in the forums

[@zlsandayofficial]

This is latest version?