As I was finishing this blog post, I came across this , of , that explains how to download and install OpenShot; it also explains a lot more about the program.

Neil Chappell, quoted above, also made a , the separate program for creating 3D titles within Openshot.

If you're coming to OpenShot from iMovie HD (on the Mac), you might be surprised to find that OpenShot does not have a feature to capture video from a Firewire cable. The quick workaround for this is to do your video capturing using another Linux video editing program, such as Kino, and then dragging your video clips into OpenShot. Many video cameras these days capture video directly to solid-state media, in which case getting that video into OpenShot is as easy as dragging the video files off the storage card in your camcorder, as if the camcorder were a USB flash drive. Jonathan Thomas tells me that adding DV capture is not in the plans for OpenShot, but that other programmers are welcome to work on that.

You can also do your video captures from within iMovie HD and then use a USB flash drive to copy over the video clips onto your Linux box. To view the video clips within your iMovie HD project, right-click on the file name for the project. Your video clips are found within the Media folder.