Finally! Someone who can explain the basics without jumping right into the advanced stuff. I wish though that someone would demonstrate how to edit a single video. Yes, I am very new to this. Thank you.

This is a perfect tutorial for someone with no video editing experience whatsoever! Well paced and clear explanations. Thank you!

Legends say that many big KZfaqrs were born here

There are so many crappy tutorials for various programs, then along comes Jonathan... Excellent explanations, pleasant voice, and the feeling you are listening to a trusted friend! Thank you so much Jonathan! Robert Ronan Montana

Having struggled for years with Corel Videostudio, slow performance, crashes and general poor useability I decided to look for a replacement of which there are many. Most were either too complicated, buggy or just did not work until I found OpenShot. Not only did it work out of the box but I created a video with fixed images, video content and music within half an hour of downloading. I could not believe how easy it was and the tutorials have helped with some of its finer abilities. Well impressed Jonathan. You can expect a cheque in the post ;-) Yes - I will be donating shortly. A very professional piece of software. Highly reccomended.

I have just started with your tutorial and, God, I learned so much in such a little time. Thanks for making it so clear. I will carry on the next ones as soon as I master this first lesson. A world of possibilities. thanks Jonathan.

Wow thank you I learned a lot from that. I have been using the software for a few weeks. I'm really excited to see more videos from you and provide quality videos for my business.

Finally, a clear tuition, not jumping straight into advance stuff like the rest do and loose everyone.

Dear Jonathan! Thank you very much for this very useful, well explained, easy to follow video that I really enjoyed watching!

Jonathan you are fantastic, for the job you have done with this software, you are the best!

OpenShot is a simple and powerful video editor. These tutorials by Jonathan Thomas are superb. Thank you.

Jonathan, thanks so much for all the work you have put into this software. I just used it to create my first edited video. Looking forward to more tuts!

Really huge thanks Jonathan for this program, I have only just come across it and the more I mess with it the more impressed I am. monitors (and have done for about 20 years now) otherwise I quickly forget what is behind the window I am working in) and discovering that I can drop the preview window or really any other function window onto another monitor just put a huge smile on my face. Adding to that the fact that the settings are remembered for the next time it’s opened well my face is hurting, , thank you for your superb effort and for putting the work into the public domain. I cannot thank you enough and a donation will be on its way as soon as finances permit as I am a pensioner and money has to be rationed.

You get right to point...and yet you made it uncomplicated. How refreshing!

Thank you, Mr. Thomas. I am learning how to navigate the "Openshot Video Editor." I an old end-user: before the Internet the only technology I opened was a book or newspaper. Therefore, I appreciate the slower pace of your tutorials. Best wishes to you and all your "students." Let's knock 'em dead one day, figuratively speaking of course, with great videos.

Im so excited to use this software. Thank you for creating it and for your help. Straight forward and easy to follow.

I’m reluctant to choose this over PowerDirector because most reviews say Openshot has too many bugs and crashes all the time. But your tutorials are so much better than theirs; you go nice and slow and cover small details which, asa new computer user, I find relief in. Not everyone was born knowing Nerd-Speak. So, since I can actually comprehend your instructions I’ll probably go with Openshot. Thanks man. ❤👌🏾

I've just uploaded my very first video using OpenShot Video Editor, without even watching a tutorial, it was THAT easy!! thank you!! ^_^

Great! Straight to the point and exactly what you need to know without filling your head with random crap! Thank you!

Amazing tutorial .... incredible! Believe me I've watch a number of tutorials on Openshot & sooo frustrating. You to the point, the examples & details what you CAN do in Openshot is mindblowing! WoW wish I found you right at the beginning instead of wasting hours & hours & hours of my life (& hair) & still a blank slate (i'm not that thick - I used CorelDraw etc a few years ago - not like zero idea). Thank you so much, Abundant blessings, love & light. May the Universe shine on you forever!

There's a lot of fun stuff I could do with OpenShot in the quarantine. Thanks Jonathan 👍

cant wait to start playing around with this thank you so much!!

Sometimes I use Openshot to edit my videos (not that I edit very well) but I find it quite nice to use. Maybe not the most powerful and exact video editor ever, but it's good enough for me and I like that there are ready to use effects. More experienced editors might require more detailed editing software, but since I'm useless at editing, Openshot is helping me learn about video editing quite a bit :)

Absolutely superb - very well-paced for a beginner (as opposed to too many others). THANK YOU!

Yea, I just discovered OpenShot. Really appreciate you taking the time to create and post this video. I'm good with new software but this is a lot easier to take a few minutes and learn from someone who already knows. Your video should come with all OpenShot install files! [=

tbh honest i found a lot of people saying filmora or other apps but i never found any other editor as much as easy and simple as openshot, so thanks to openshot which make things a lot more easier.

Thanks. Your tutorial was very helpful. I had no idea about overlapping the clips or about the add to timeline dialog!

Jonathon thanks very much that was exactly what I needed! Could not figure out how to export, and you nailed it. Cheers mate.

Thank you for such a nice lesson. Made things so easy for an old man like me.

FINALLY! I found the answer to the question no one else answers! Thank you so much Jonathan! I just need to click and drag the multiple scenes on the timeline in order to move them all together. :-)

Jonathan, I would like to thank you for this fantastic software and also the tutorial on youtube. This is really appreciated and I try to imagine the time and the efforts you put on this work. I just can understand why all this work is available for free. Some people like you are very generous and know what mean the word ; SHARE. So, Thomas I"m learning with you and your software and try to produce some interesting things in video. Again Jonathan....it's amazing and I THANK YOU SO MUCH

thanks dude, had to use this for a video essay . You're a lifesaver

What a fantastic tutorial .Thank goodness we have guys like Jonathan.I was going crazy trying to work it out on my own Thanks a million !

Dear Jonathan, thakns for introducing all the features of OpenShot with utmost clarity. it's a great time to be with you.

You are so clear at teaching which made me to think that I wish I had you in my college. Thank you so much!!

Thank You So Much! I Was Totally Confused, Till I Saw This! You Make It So Simple. I want To See All 3 Parts!

Excellent ! I just tried to learn by opening my OpenShot, watch and stop your video in here, and make it in my software. Brilliant ! Easy to learn and I feel the power in it :) Now, I'm jumping to the next lesson ...

Always a fan of open source stuff, Great vid!

Genious produce! Almost professional but exactly easy. Zillon thanks for your creativity and altruism for sharing your extensive labor open source.

Very well done! Clear and slow enough for beginners, thanks

Thanks Jonathan! Very helpful since I forgot to save my zoom video in the cloud and couldn't edit it within my zoom account! You're very appreciated!

Wow yall made some BIG changes to this. One thing I hated about "open source" was it's pragmatics and crashes... which this app did LOT and I hated most about this app at the time was it was tedious adding transitions and stuff and now you guys have it to where you can select each one per frame that's freakin awesome!!!! I just upgraded my laptop with an SSD drive and it's 20 times faster now and not imma try this again. I have a feeling imma love this now. THANK YOU for continuing to be open source and I hope people are donating to you to keep it that way before you corporatize it and charge a stupid subscription or some crazy price.

im openshot for life. i would/will be donating soon, thank you so much open shot i edited 42 videos since i found this, i made a goal to do 1 video a day for a year and this is my preffered program fro editing, thank you open shot i look forward to more features, i am behind open shot 100 percent and will do whatever i can to help make the program better thank you openshot

I was looking for someone to explain like you did it helped me a TON THANKS so much

really good video there bud; a lot of confusing video software out there. This one looks simple; thanks for all your help.

Thanks helping a bit so far and I'm glad you made it simple ( cuz I go from moviemaker to this so I'm wanting simple lol)

Jonathon, Thank you what a wonderful editor! Question: Photo edits made in Paint revert to original when added to the project files. Suggestions?

Thank you for a very comprehensive, well explained and easy to follow instructions! :)

That's cool. I'm going to try this video editor. Hopefully, it wouldn't lag on me. But no matter what, your tutorial was great. Two thumbs up!

Fantastic tutorial!!! I am new to video editing and you presented this in a way that even I could follow and understand.

Thank you so much for your software and tutorials. You rock! We are in 2022 and I cannot find the zoom little blue bar. Where can I find the zoom function?

I loved your demo...you are so relaxing to listen to and learn at the same time! Are you going to be as good with 'cutting clips'? That's where I fail every time!

Jonathan, everytime i start working on clip i get a glitch or hesitation in some spots of the main clip, tried saving and watching on vid player and it's still there. your thoughts.

Thanks Jonathan...This was an impeccable piece of tutorial

I was a Master Training Specialist in the US Navy. It's not only important to show or tell how something is done, but also why? Why are you doing this or that. Explain the purpose of what you just demonstrated "Why" ties everything together and helps the student understand and remember. Better than the last five so-called beginner videos though.

Hi Jon. Every time I try to add video files to the project, it flips them upside down. I'm frustrated and don't know how to fix it. Help meh please.

BROOO thankyou so much, this really helped and the tutorial was really easy to use as well :)

thanks, I clicked the ads cause I wanna support you!

Great video Jonathan, Thank's for the share , there are quite a few videos on OpenShot but mostly they explain things to quickly before you have time to grasp things, but yours was a great pace . Brian UK.

tyyyyyyy this is the best vid evaaa to explain the basics!!!!!!finallyyyyyyyyy someone!!!!!!!

I found this tutorial very helpful as somebody who is new to the world of video editing.

What a great tutorial. This guy understands how to speak to noobs.

Great video. Easy, clean, GREAT!

great Tutorial. Easy to understand and follow. Thanks Johnathan.

THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS HELPED SO MUCH THANKS You need more subscribers THIS IS SO GOOD

Great job! I learned enough to get started with openshot and know what I am doing. Thank you.

Thanks Jonathan, I have learned a lot from your presentation!

Thanks Jonathan for making this amazing software available for free god bless you

Great intro video. Really helpful. Thanks. I'm off to have a go now!!

Thanks for this awesome piece of free software. You are great.

Thank you for this!! This helped me so much!

Very pleasant and clear lesson. Thank you!

Thanks for this, I am new to openshot so I am going to be editing my video blogs from now on!

Dang this tutorial is a banger I know everything to create a montage now

Hi Jonathan! Thanks for creating this great program and making it free to use. I am enjoying using OpenShot and have watched most of your tutorials and a few others. However some things on my screen don't look like your screen. I have a very prominent bounding box on my preview screen with large handles and a circle in the middle. When I look at other videos, the handles on the selected clip are very small and the bounding box looks like nothing more than a dotted line. Have I turned on some weird setting? Also, the slider to increase and decrease the timeline looks different. It's not a simple strait line with a slider. It has a lot of little tick marks on it. Again, can this be changed in settings or is this a function of a newer version of the program, since most of your videos are over 5 years old?

Awesome video, i am very new to all of these stuff online, i dont know how to make a video or whatever because we have no computers and internet in my younger years lol, now am a senior citizen but i want to make use my time after retirement to learn about this and teach it to my grandkids, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS TUTORIAL...

Hey Jonathan. Thanks for the video. Love it. I'm working on trying to playalong to an audio clip with a band. I've trimmed the start and ending but the only clip that is playing is the Band clip and not my clip. I did select both and adjust to 100% so not sure why this isn't sounding. If you have any ideas it would be great!

Just what this noob needed. Thanx for a very good tutorial series. Others are just too much, too fast, too poor quality.

Its incredible that this program is free, it is very useful

thank you so much for the basic. i just download the software and hope that it helps me on my workout video

Thanks for this. I used Filmora 8.7.5, but lost it when one of my hard drives became corrupted. After the repair, I didn't want to upload the New version of Filmora, but I was pleased to find Open Shot. Have you sorted out the lagging when filters, etc are added? I would like to download as soon as. Thanks.

Hi Jonathan, I have been using vsdc but I have jumped over to OpenShot and I really like it. I have watch your playlist and found it very helpful. But can you tell me is there a tool that increases the volume of a video ? Cheers

Thank you for you vide. Could you please tell me how to delete original sound which belong to video? Thank you

So, it sounds as if we need to create the still images [titles at beginning and credits at the end] before we get into splicing it all together. My question is, "What size [I assume in pixels] do we make those still images? Thank you. I am VERY new to this, as my question shows.

awesome tutorial man. Thanks for this. i learned something

thank you! I appreciate your tutorial

Very useful for beginners, thank you!

Thank you, I can see you are a very patient teacher! ;)

Loved your video - made using it a breeze. I downloaded the current version 2.4.2 however it keeps crashing on my Windows 10 laptop. Can you shed any light on why this is happening? Much thanks.

Thanks! This will really help me with my dream youtuber career!

I have just started using Windows Movie Maker but I found it a little confusing... I have watched your first 2 tutorials and although this looks VERY similar, it does at first glance appear to be a little more user friendly!? I am going to download this tonight and give it a go. Thankyou 👍😉

Thank you for this tutorial. So helpful. Kudos

Wooow !! this is really Fantastic! and so easy explained!! Thank You !

TNice tutorials was an amazing tutorial. You are a great teacher

Great tutorial video simple and easy to understand , not like other videos , they forget that it is for beginners and some people like me have never used a editing program before . Thank you Question : Can I save clips to a stick or external hard drive so I don't use up all my space on my computer

Jonathan you made it very simple and I am going to download and try a VIDIOOOOO. Thanks.

thank you so much your such a good help!!

This video helped me alot! Thanks!

I couldn't love this less...thank you Jonathan! You're the man! Muah!! One more thing, is it possible to create a text slide-show without much struggle? How?

Does anyone have issues with the music being choppy and the program randomly closing?