Basic Animation | OpenShot Video Editor Tutorial

In this tutorial, we create our first animation, and explain the basic animation flow and how to use clip presets, which are a fun and simple way to add interest to your videos. Download OpenShot for free: www.openshot.org/download/.
The following topics are covered in this video:
- Clip menu / Preset animations
- Clear animations
- Transform tool / Simple custom animations
OpenShot Version: 2.4.1

[@spiralspirit7604]

I've just started to learn video editing at 61 and this is the best clear explanation I seen on anything ''OpenShot'', thanks.

[@TEFLAudios]

I'm only a few years behind you and you're not wrong!!

[@billkelly3679]

I'm 63, and I agree 100 percent! :)

[@toto2x2]

This is the clearest explanation I've found on OpenShot Tutorial

[@johneBGood]

WOW!!!! I was gifted with Adobe Pro, and could not handle it and had decided not to record any videos until I stumbled on this product. EASY!! Thank you so much and thank you for the excellent tutorial videos!

[@harristokpah8114]

I haven't start using open shot yet but just from the animation tutorial, I am already loving it

[@poetryjones7946]

Pleeeease make more & more Openshot tutorials. You’re th only person on TH-cam who breaks down & explains things in a way Absolute No-Software-Skills Virgin Beginners can understand. 🤘🏽

[@trentonjennings9105]

Excellent! I was looking for just this kind of thing to make an object appear to recede in a rear-view mirror.

[@hache_raw]

Thank you for the software and for the videos. I'm spanish but you speak so clear I can even watch them on 2x.

[@lanceortiz1983]

THANKS SO MUCH SIR JONATHAN,,YOU ARE A GOOD TEACHER TO US REGARDING THIS STUFF.

[@CLAldridgeArt]

I love my Open Shot but I'm still learning something new about it every day. THANK YOU for making this so clear! :-D

[@ModelsExInferis]

Thanks mate, this was just what I was looking for! I've been animating in Window Video Editor (pah!) but never get the effects I was after, so decided to see if OpenShot could do it and here it is, in very easy to follow steps, which is fantastic as I'm a total n00b! Have subscribed so I can check out more tutorials in the future!

[@karmedia1277]

Thanks for this video editor. Easy to understand and use as a new content creator really appreciate this.

[@DanielRLuke]

You are amazing, totally amazing at making tutorials. Thank you so much for creating this project and making it open source.

[@keystone113]

I am definitely gonna try this in my next video. Thank you, Mr Thomas.

[@wkgmathguy218]

Your videos are excellent. They achieve their purpose without a lot of annoying fluff. Liked and subscribed.

[@photocreativity]

A great video for starters like me. Now I know the basics to start creating. Thanks 🙏

[@TS-uz2yy]

Thank you for such an AMAZING application Jonathan :)

[@mikaelrodriguez1781]

i personally use open shot on my videos and i love it. its so simple to use. and its free!

[@VazzVegas]

YES!, Holy S, this is EXACTLY what I was looking for and you nailed it. There's no way I'd be able to figure this out on my own without hours of trail and error so thank you, sir.

[@datweirdbanana5738]

Thank you so much!
I tried to download shotcut but I didn't understand but THIS is UNDERSTANDABLE!
I'm blessed knowing that this program exists

[@bsterenborg]

Again Jonathan thanks a lot, you're the best teacher for beginners!!!

[@deeptisawhney1210]

oh man love this i dint even know how to combine two clips on open shot but now i know it all

[@SculchStudiosTrueCrime]

I'm so excited to give Open Shot a whirl. I've made all previous videos on my cell phone, but just purchased a worthy laptop and downloaded Open Shot. I can't wait to learn the software and bring much needed improvements to my videos. Thank you so much for making this available to everyone.

[@Laryxify]

Fantastic resource, using it as I type this ;-) Seamless and well programmed. Thumbs Up!

[@usamesavas9848]

Thanks. this is one of the most awesome works I have seen till the day. congrats!

[@un__used]

Thank you so much! I just couldn't figure out how to create my own animations instead of the ones that are already provided, I had no idea that you had to use transform!
Create your own animations - 5:10

[@divineenglishstories]

Thanks Jonathan, Your Tutorial on Animation is useful. Easy to understand.

[@billkelly3679]

Just started playing with OpenShot while watching tutorials. Even I can do it!

[@eLearningsForum]

Superb! Thanks for explaining in such an easy way. Please make one more which has detail of all the professional editing. (:

[@amalali986]

Great and very well-explained tutorial. Thank you so much, Jonathan. Liked and subscribed

[@moved127]

thank for the tutorial! this will help me with making tweening animations ^^

[@alovelydeadfish]

Thank you so much I've been so confused and this helped alot ^^

[@pregnancyandbirth]

Amazing! You explain very well. Thank you Jonathan.

[@TheAalia]

The way you explain so easy that I'm not English but understand all ...thanks

[@michielost]

Awesome turorial!!

[@iga279]

Great stuff ! Perfect pace as well! Muchas Gracias !

[@haileyjones4157]

Super helpful! Thank you :)

[@radamtv4779]

Thank you very much Jonathan. I really needed this video. Greetings from Germany :)

[@aparna3344]

thank you so much, this was really good !

[@claudeakel]

i edit my videos using open shot i will use these animations to add my social media, thanks for the great software

[@gamerchallenge1]

thx alot Jonathan i really need to improve my videos and this helped alot!

[@jgoyes66]

Great stuff!

[@santoshmhaskar5517]

It's really very helpful Mr. Jonathan.

[@PizzaInSpace]

Thanks! I needed this.

[@4seasons4elements]

Cool stuff. Thx

[@Alex-uu8ts]

Thnak you so much i needed this!

[@JamesattheWAC]

Your work is appreciated, dear sir!

[@onyyx777]

Super helpful!

[@srushtikanta2969]

wow he is the maker of this software. thank you sir ,you are awesome.

[@rezsoenh4668]

Thank you so much !

[@user-ps2he7dt1h]

Thank you very much, you save my day!

[@MelodicaGirll]

thank you for the video but... im having trouble getting gifs to actually show up as gifs and not just still pictures. if theres anyway to fix this pls let me know

[@robinwhould884]

Thank you so much, Jonathan, you know this is the first tutorial of any that I was actually able to comprehend :)) You are such a "Tiger" !!

[@TEFLAudios]

Brilliant video. Thanks

[@elijahantony4300]

Thank you for all this Jonathan

[@factworld4375]

Thanks. It's really useful.
Subscribed :)

[@dom3225]

Wow, I can't believe I've ised this app wrong for so many weeks, thanks !

[@charlesrockafellor4200]

@Dom Benini -- I'm brand-spanking new to all of this, and I'm a geek, so my curiosity kicked in there and now you have me wondering: how had you been using it so far? (I figure that it might be of use to know more than one way of going about things.)

[@dom3225]

@@charlesrockafellor4200 I am not geeky at all and i didn't watch tutorials before starting to make videos. I put 2 tracks and stacked videos and images and transitions and everything into one, then audio on another. So it was really messy and hard to edit. I was creating everything I needed in power point then screen recorded then put it on the open shot editor. I did everything wrong smh

[@blob4345]

Thanks a ton m8!

[@Osprey3400]

This is looks so simple and easy I love it! I just wonder can you animate text?

[@HTJFilms]

Thank you
U earned a sub

[@kimi3786]

Thanks I just wanted to know if you could tween, very helpful.

[@RaldosKnight]

thanks mate!

[@silencerza9108]

super helpful!!

[@truckeralvarez5932]

Hi, just wondering about you putting the cursor at the beginning of the image and you struggled a bit. So, is there a way to snap to edge of clip in the timeline??

[@FortyAtlas2]

GREAT JOB REALLY !

[@yogaaerobicsparamaanand534]

The4 Best ever, kindly explain how to write text and other effects , there may be on your channel, Best one

[@rickyoung3340]

Thank you!!

[@IRBInfoTec]

Sir you are great man
Salute your skill

[@creationofsristi]

Keep making videos about animation for openshot!! :), I just want to make a simple sliding animation. This helps a lot!

[@centraldigitalmarketing]

Thanks a lot for tutorial video

[@bowleggedbear]

Hey Jonathan, not sure if you ever get to answering questions, but if you do, I'm curious if there is a way to make parts of a video clip transparent in OpenShot. The batman mask was an image with everything but the mask transparent. You mentioned you could use videos with transparent places as well.
I'm wondering specifically because I want to experiment with using a green screen to take animations in the foreground and put them on top of animations in the back ground.

[@onehourrelaxation1970]

Thanks .. for short training ...

[@jopeteus]

THANK YOU!!

[@mmshigam09]

Very nice and crisp video

[@jacobdavid]

Informative video. Thank you.

[@finophile]

Thanks ... very helpful :-)

[@gabopython]

good tutorial man

[@OpenShotOfficial]

Appreciate it!

[@warjovangalen7191]

thanks jonathan for this video edito, it is really is easy to use. Is it possible to use layout (let's say: 1/4 size top left) AND in this lay out the function of 'zoom' ?

[@ungavaproductions]

So happy to have you beside me to learn about video editor. A question maybe on this particular nbr 3 tutorial. How did you get the transparency of the mark picture. Is this by using a king of Photoshop picture with transparency applied ? Thanks

[@ihssancanmturk3842]

Wonderful!

[@egonpauli1744]

1:17 : "this foreground object has transparency"... It's actually a more advanced action that is required in order to create a transparent background, by using chroma key to delete selected colors... I'm not sure why that part is skipped, because beginners probably can't follow from this point on without having a foreground image first.

[@Victoria-oz2nk]

good point, i couldn't understand that bit.

[@Coachgerri]

Thanks - you are engaging

[@Zero-plus-one]

Thnaks, like it

[@m4j1k]

been getting knowledge

[@n.f.lcobra6878]

THANK YOU

[@FamilyLifeBuildersTV]

Thank you

[@chill9371]

very good 👍

[@justinfoeth8550]

Thank you this video was successfull

[@BorsheimArts]

So, the transparent Batman mask automatically went in as a foreground image/on top of the previous image because it was added to a higher track number or because it was added AFTER the others?

[@nineix9438]

higher track #

[@cupidjrrobianto]

thats. good .. i can animate freely

[@eugeneb4213]

Thanks! I noticed that besides doing fade in/fade out, I can also click on any point in a clip and change the alpha setting, and it will then gradually change to that alpha setting from whatever it was before (much the same concept as your advanced batman mask animation). One of those little "green brackets" shows up when I do that. My question is, is there an easy way to work with those green brackets? For example, can I delete one of them, or make one of them shorter or longer, or easily change the value at the end of one of them? I tried zooming in and clicking on them, but it doesn't seem that they can be clicked on.

[@prafullagiri8420]

Those Green Brackets are keyframes. You can delete them from 'properties', but you'll have to be in the exact frame where a keyframe has been set. You can use the arrowed keys to navigate frame-by-frame. This video might be of some help too: th-cam.com/video/mgi4esWA84M/w-d-xo.html
P.S: Feature requests have been made for clickable, deletable, dragable keyframes. But since Mr. Thomas is doing this solo for the most part, it seems it might be a while before the feature is implemented.

[@soldadopreciso]

thanks pal.

[@paolorossi2879]

Thank you for sharing your expertise! Is it possibile with OpenShot do create circle video to play along another video? For instance suppose to see in a smaller circle the video of a violin player, while on the screen another video of nature or landscapes goes on? Thank you very much for your attention.

[@Kloxbyn]

Amazing content. Side note: Please invest in a pop filter, our ears would appreciate it.

[@deepikaohlyan]

Thank u so sir

[@ZeZeTVPK]

Good For my channel. Thanks

[@sajejekyllhyde4647]

Hey man, firstly thank you for the tutorials.
Secondly, could you maybe help me understand why my preview doesn’t work like yours? My video plays in a slow pixelated sort of way and I don’t seem to hear my audio on the preview. What can I do to solve this?

[@chaitanya9032]

superb

[@businesslab6180]

good one

[@artandmotion]

Please a tutorial about color correction.

[@scottdavidson3366]

I just want to change portions of my video to slow motion, then back to normal speed. Is that covered in any of your tutorials? Great software you have created!

[@MrTopGunHD]

Just slice the part you want as slow, right click in timeline, and select Time. All the options you need should be there simply!
If I helped you out, do give my channel a view. Not gonna ask you to sub unless you want to :)