

Sadly though, thoseones used to navigate around your work didn’t function on the machine we tested it on, even moving one frame at a time along the timeline using the appropriate arrow keys didn’t work. OpenShot has a series of customisable keyboard shortcuts for most of what you’d need to do while editing a video.

It does however make it much easier to move and animate a clip around the screen rather than having to fiddle with its properties values. However here again you cannot constrain its proportions when resizing it (even holding down the shift key - a convention adopted by numerous other apps - does nothing). It is possible to manipulate a clip directly from the main Preview window by selecting it in the Timeline, and choosing Transform from its contextual menu. The number of available effects is quite paltry (Image credit: OpenShot) Workflow
