How To Install OpenShot Video Editor 2.2 released On Ubuntu 16.10, 16.04

   OpenShot Video Editor is a free, open-source video editor for Linux. OpenShot can take your videos, photos, and music files and help you create the film you have always dreamed of. Easily add sub-titles, transitions, and effects, and then export your film to DVD, YouTube, Vimeo, Xbox 360, and many other common formats.

OpenShot Video Editor 2.2 Changelog:

•     Selection handles (in progress)
•     Ability to disable unit tests (useful for distros that have a broken unittest++ library)
•     Broken Ubuntu 16.10 PPA fixed
•     Fixed bug when opening .OSP projects via command line
•     Disabled SSL validation (not used anyway)
•     Fixed bug when opening legacy 1.4.x project files that contain UTF-8 encoded characters
•     Preferences now save settings on close of dialog (and persist even if a crash follows)
•     Added FileVersion and custom icon to Windows installer (more polished)
•     Ability to drop a file directly on the timeline (without dropping it in your Project Files first)
•     Fixed bug where the tutorial does not find the correct widget
•     Began work on a new help manual using sphinx (not quite ready yet)
•     New 2.5k and 4k profiles added
•     Fixed margins on OS X and Windows around QDockWidgets
•     Fixed bug when switching between Thumbnail and Detail views
•     Alpha backgrounds have been fixed on all Blender animated titles
•     Recently opened menu logic has been fixed
•     Translations updated for 70+ languages

Installation instructions:

In order to successfully install OpenShot on Ubuntu, you have to add the PPA to your system, update the local repository index and install the openshot-qt package:

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:openshot.developers/ppa $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install openshot-qt

 
Optional, to remove OpenShot, do:

$ sudo apt-get remove openshot-qt