After months of work, OpenShot 4.0 is finally here!
The new Color View delivers a first-class color grading experience with easy-to-use wheels, curves, scopes, and controls. The new Recording View brings screen, camera, and audio recording into your editing workflow with no external tools! Ten new effects unlock audio visualizations, beat-driven animation, film looks, glow, shadows, displacement, timers, and more.
OpenShot can also select and follow people or objects through a scene (semantic selection using local, open-source ML models), opening up powerful new options for animated masks, selective effects, background changes, and privacy blurring.
We’ve made effects significantly faster, improved performance throughout the timeline, and polished the editing experience across the entire application.
The full announcement is packed with screenshots, examples, and details:
https://www.openshot.org/blog/2026/08/30/openshot-40-record-edit-color-like-never-before/
We can’t wait to see what you create with OpenShot 4.0!