If your computer powers off and will not power on at all (has no lights and no sounds), first check to make sure there is power at the outlet. Should the test find any errors, you need to replace one of your RAM memory cards. If your problem is very intermittent, let the test run much longer.
Let the test run for at least one full pass. The test won’t end until you press the escape key.You will see a blue screen while the test is running. After you press the enter key, the memory test will automatically run.
It is more stable though, so that’s a good thing, but we feel there are better alternatives out there - even free ones. Overall, OpenShot shows potential but it hasn’t really received the number of updates we would’ve expected after two years. That in itself is worth its weight in gold since there’s nothing more infuriating and useless than an app that keeps on crashing. It no longer feels sluggish when applying transitions and effects, and OpenShot appears much more stable than it did before. One very welcome change is in OpenShot’s speed and performance. Thankfully you can forgo all this by adding the entire clip to your timeline and using the Razor Tool (depicted as a pair of scissors) to cut that clip and keep the parts you need. It seems unnecessarily convoluted though, especially the creation of another clip. You can add that trimmed clip to your timeline, and are then also able to extend your clip beyond those Start and End markers from there.
Those tell OpenShot which part of the footage you would like to use, and creates a new clip in your Media pane which is a trimmed version of the original (it is highly advisable to give this clip a new name as there is no obvious way to distinguish it from the original, especially if your start frames are similar). In order to do this, you need to choose the ‘Split’ option in that contextual menu from which you can also preview your footage, and set Start and End markers (making the first option superfluous in our humble opinion). In OpenShot, you can preview your clip by right-clicking it and choosing ‘Preview’, but you can’t set In and Out points. One major aspect of video editing is being able to choose the right part of your footage to add onto your edit. OpenShot’s implementation of the JKL functionality (J to rewind, K to stop, L to fast forward) worked - somewhat (sometimes we had to hit the key twice to actually go in the direction we wanted). 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 Panes can also be turned into floating windows. You can move panes around to other parts of the interface, and those that are already there resize themselves automatically to make room for it. On top of this, you can customise the interface to suit your needs.įor instance not only can you resize each section with respect to the others (increase the size of the preview pane and the project and timeline sections shrink to accommodate, for instance). You can switch between the Simple and Advanced views depending on how much information you need to see on screen at any one time, but ‘Advanced’ doesn’t offer additional features - it just displays more tools on the screen. What’s good is that it offers everything you need from the standpoint of a basic video editing app.
The interface looks sleek and attractive which hasn’t change since we last explored this software nearly two years ago. The interface looks nice and sleek, and is highly customisable (Image credit: OpenShot) Getting started