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You may also want to edit your videos in other ways - including adding narration to specific parts, adding textual information, adding subtitles, photographs or adding music or additional sounds.  Open Shot Video editor is is a simple yet powerful application that allows you to do these things. Just like in Audacity, when you use Open Shot editor, your video or audio clips will be shown as tracks and by moving and combining, you can edit the files as needed.

You may also want to edit your videos in other ways - including adding narration to specific parts, adding textual information, adding subtitles, photographs or adding music or additional sounds.  Open Shot Video editor is is a simple yet powerful application that allows you to do these things. Just like in Audacity, when you use Open Shot editor, your video or audio clips will be shown as tracks and by moving and combining, you can edit the files as needed.

Open OpenShot on your computer, through <u>Applications → Sound and Video → OpenShot.  Import your video into OpenShot through <u>File → Open</u> and select your video file.</u> You can also add images or audios that you want to add to the video by importing these as tracks.

Open OpenShot on your computer, through <u>Applications → Sound and Video → OpenShot</u> (image 23).  Import your video into OpenShot through <u>File → Open</u> and select your video file (image 24).  You can also add images or audios that you want to add to the video by importing these as tracks.

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|[[File:Opening Openshot video editor.png|none|thumb|450x450px| Opening OpenShot video editor from menu]]

|[[File:Opening Openshot video editor.png|none|thumb|450x450px|Image 23 - Opening OpenShot video editor from menu]]

|[[File:COL_open_shot_importing_files.png|left|thumb|500x500px| import video into OpenShot]]

|[[File:COL_open_shot_importing_files.png|left|thumb|500x500px|Image 24 - Import video into OpenShot]]

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<br>This software is very powerful with many sophisticated features (for advanced features, refer to the [http://www.openshotusers.com/help/1.3/en/ user manual and tutorials)] . However, we will learn a few commonly used functions, in video editing, which are useful to teachers in creating and re-purposing OER:

<br>This software is very powerful with many sophisticated features (for advanced features, refer to the [http://www.openshotusers.com/help/1.3/en/ user manual and tutorials)] . However, we will learn a few commonly used functions, in video editing, which are useful to teachers in creating and re-purposing OER: