I used open shot while on vacation recently and it was a pleasant experience. At the very least it was among the better open source productivity apps that I tried recently.
By this I mean it has a complete installer for my os, it installed without a hitch, the UI is "normal" and intuitive enough, it handled my dpi just fine, and the functionality is solid.
The only issue is that it was a bit sluggish at times.
Got my video done and will surely drop a donation if I adopt it as my go to video editor.
I used open shot quite a bit years ago for YouTube content creation. It is approximately a million times easier to use than pretty much any other video editor but back then it was slow and crashy to the point of frustration. I just gave 2.5.0 a try and sometimes it was a little slow and stuttery at times but I managed to edit a fairly simple video with it.
The GPU acceleration feature is pretty nice. On my dated machine, encoding a 1080p MP4 on an integrated Intel video chip is a little more than twice as fast as hammering all 4 of my CPU cores. (Effectively rendering in real time.)
By this I mean it has a complete installer for my os, it installed without a hitch, the UI is "normal" and intuitive enough, it handled my dpi just fine, and the functionality is solid.
The only issue is that it was a bit sluggish at times.
Got my video done and will surely drop a donation if I adopt it as my go to video editor.