Openshot is an open-source, lightweight video editor that provides the platform to make high-quality videos with advanced 3D animations and overlays. The user-friendly interface and it’s supports for various video format make it an excellent video editing application.
If you want to start making your journey toward video editing on Raspberry Pi, you can install this tool on the Raspberry Pi system from this article’s guidelines.
Install Openshot on Raspberry Pi
The Openshot is a free tool that supports systems like Windows, macOS and Linux. The lightweight nature of this tool allows the developers to include this tool in the Raspberry Pi source repository. You can follow the below-mentioned steps to install Openshot on your Raspberry Pi system from the source repository.
Step 1: Update Source Repository
Before executing the installation task, ensure that the Raspberry Pi source repository is updated, and you can enter the following command to update it:
The reason for updating the repository is to ensure the installation of the latest packages later.
Step 2: Install Openshot on Raspberry Pi
After updating the repository, you can now install Openshot on your Raspberry Pi system from the following command:
The process doesn’t take much time installing the application on your Raspberry Pi system.
Step 3: Check Openshot Version
You can also confirm the installation by applying the following command that outputs the Openshot version installed on your system.
Run Openshot on Raspberry Pi
Now, there are two ways to run the Openshot tool on your Raspberry Pi system:
- Through Terminal
- Through GUI
Run Openshot Through Terminal
Executing the following command will run the Openshot application on your desktop.
Run Openshot Through GUI
You can also run the Openshot application from the “Sound & Video” section available in the Raspberry Pi main application menu, as shown below:
Remove Openshot from Raspberry Pi
If somehow you decided to remove the Openshot application from your Raspberry Pi, just hit the below-mentioned command:
Conclusion
Openshot is a powerful video editing tool that lets you edit videos on your Raspberry Pi system. Since it’s a lightweight tool, you can easily install it from the official Raspberry Pi repository using a single installation command. After installing this application, you can run it from the terminal or the application menu in the Sound & Video option.
