OpenShot Video Editor is an open-source project dedicated to delivering high quality video editing and animation solutions to the world.

This document outlines some of the high-level goals I have for the future of OpenShot. This is a living document, and will continuously evolve, but in the spirit of open-source and transparency, I wanted to share my thoughts and goals for the project.

In other words, it should be simple & approachable by all people, including non-technical and non-video editing backgrounds. Simple interface (initially at least), friendly help prompts, tool-tips, etc...

OpenShot should provide extremely high quality, professional-level video editing and animation features. It is my desire to have hundreds of professional editing and animation features included.

This one is the hardest to achieve. To include the most powerful video editing & animation features, but do so without confusing less experienced users. To allow the flexibility for different layouts, views, and work-flows for more experienced users. Simple + Powerful + Flexible.

However, OpenShot has no chance on achieving these goals without the support from our open-source contributors, volunteers, translators, and users. Please consider joining our humble project and helping build OpenShot into something truly special! Please send us an email (hello@openshot.org) and introduce yourself!