OpenShot 2.5 unveils hardware acceleration support, plus more performance improvements

Open-source video editor OpenShot 2.5.0 has been released, dubbed "our largest release yet" by project creator Jonathan Thomas. Headline new features, which should significantly improve the application’s performance when fully implemented, include experimental support for hardware acceleration alongside a major overhaul of the keyframe system. Future development should also be simpler now all features and support have been aligned across all platforms: Windows, Linux and macOS. Experimental support for hardware acceleration -- both decoding and encoding -- should be a game changer for those with compatible hardware. Where supported, GPUs will now be able to take part of the heavy… [Continue Reading]