r/OpenShot

Just started working with the program. To me it looks like the menus are designed for a look that seems to emphasize subtlety over usability.

In the Simple View:

In the menu that contains "Program Files" "Video" "Audio" "Image" "Filter" as well as two icons on the right, the unselected menu items are in a color that is hard to distinguish from the background and mousing over the unselected items does not alter their text color or show an outline around the button.

In the menu that contains "Show All" "Video" "Audio" "Image" "Filter" the selected button has a very faint color change to differentiate it from the background. Mousing over the unselected text produces a button color change that is practically invisible.

I would like the option to choose a high contrast menu, or even better a color customizable menu with options for selected, mouseover, and unselelected button text, button outline, and button background colors.

The video I’m editing is originally recorded in 9:16, but when I downloaded, it fixed itself into 16:9 (or at least when I play it on my computer) which is fine. However when I upload it into Openshot, the video won’t render properly in either of those formats? I’ve checked another video editing software and it fixes itself correctly (9:16) Is there a way to fix this? The video is all kinds of messed up. I’ve attempt to choose a different profile to see if it’d help, still nothing. Any ideas?

I tried recording audio with OpenShot for my video but the audio came back really off - it made my voice really low and it sounded nothing like me at all. I don't know if this is a setting? It's not my mic as I sound fine in Discord and I did a test on my computer's basic audio recorder and again it was normal.

Sorry if I'm just being stupid I'm really new to doing this.

Why do all my assets, timeline items, and project tab contents disappear when I save and reopen my project? How can I fix this? It’s very frustrating.