Well, they’re easy to drop, but that doesn’t always mean they work - more on that in the next section. These are all easy to drop on top of your videos - or between them, in the case of the transitions.

The transitions include fades and wipes, the effects include pixelation for video and distortion for audio, and there are also emoji that you can drop on top of your video. There are a few different effects and transitions that OpenShot offers, which will suit easy presentations or home videos. This gives you an easier overview of all the assets your video has in it, and lets you manipulate the audio in more ways, like by bringing it out of sync with the visuals. If you right-click on a video file, you can select ‘separate audio’ which turns the audio into its own separate track. Or so it seems, and so we thought when we were testing the software, but it’s not actually the case. While some video editors split a video and its audio into separate tracks, so you can play with them separately, that’s not the case with OpenShot.

If you drag a video file into a track, you’d be forgiven for thinking that you don’t get to see its audio.

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