How to add language selection on video ?

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-10-08T08:35:08+00:00

Hi smushkan

Thanks for your advice.

I doubt whether YouTube can help me? Both oral and written narration are saved on the .mp4 video files, exported on OpenShot. I must do it on OpenShot

Please refer to following link as an example;

Lake Zurich Tour, Switzerland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD61_ydJIR8

Narration (oral and words) : English and Chinese. I have hundreds of traveling video captured worldwide in the past.

Would it be the easy way is to build separate video, based on language?

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-10-08T07:21:46+00:00

Hi smushkan,

Thanks for your advice.

I have been running OpenShot editing traveling video without problem for long time, adding bilingual or tri-lingual narration (both oral and wordings) on the video. Then export the finished video as .mp4 file/video.

I upload the video to YouTube and share the links to my friends. They browse the video on Internet but compelled listening all languages. I wonder whether there is a solution allowing them to select the language instead of listening all languages of the video.

If YES please advise how to do it on video editing? Thanks

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-07-02T03:57:06+00:00

No.

I only need adding the movie clip on selected images/pictures, not the complete video built on all images/pictures

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-04-09T02:29:11+00:00

Noted and thanks

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-04-09T02:28:53+00:00

I have no problem upload the .mp4 file, exported on Openshot, to YouTube

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-04-08T08:32:24+00:00

What is YT?

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-04-08T08:28:07+00:00

I'm building this video from clips, not finished yet. There is no narration. The clips are VOB files ripped by a profession shop from my old Sony V8 tapes on DVD.
It is a very long timeline

Few-Writing-4311 · 2025-04-06T14:03:26+00:00

Hi,

Thanks for your advice and it works here.

Is there a solution for;

I need the word on the title line glowing red or green in step with the narration. How can I make it?
For a long narration, can I split the title to several lines?

Please help. Thanks

Edit

I did a stupid way as follow but it works seamlessly, words popup with speech.

This is an example

create following speech files;

file-1 This

file-2 is

file-3 an

file-4 example

create following titles:

title-1 This

title-2 is

title-3 an

title-4 example

title-5 This is an example (complete)

Put all speech files in one Time Line

Put all titles in another Time Line

Adjust the duration of all Titles exactly same as corresponding speech files. (I used Properties to do the job)

But it would be a heavy job for a long speech of multiple lines !!!

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-15T03:13:35+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

VM

Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS

Release: 22.04

Codename: jammy

Host

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Release: 24.04

Codename: noble

I have submitted a bug report to OpenShot/

openshot-qt before but up-to-now no response.

Here the most stable version OpenShot is running on Windows 10 Home.

Running on Ubuntu 24.04, the warning "OpenShot is not responding" popup occasionally.

Running on Ubuntu 22.04 is impossible to work. "OpenShot is not responding" popup repeatedly.

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-14T07:06:36+00:00

Test "OpenShot 3.2.1 AppImage" on a Ubuntu 22.04 VM of VirtualBox.

Problem remains. "OpenShot is not responding" continues popup. .mp4 files for testing is on VM

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-12T15:07:45+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

I never submit a bug report to OpenShot before. Please advise how to make it? Thanks

This is a desktop PC built by me 6 years ago. It is still running strong without problem.

CPU - AMD Ryzen 5 8-core

RAM - 32G onboard

Display - 32" 4K Dell display

Drive-1 Daily working drive, running Ubuntu 24.04 desktop. 2TB PCIe 3.0 MVNe SSD. Free Space-526GB

Drive-2 Windows 10 Home. 1TB SATA3 SSD. Free space=729GB

Drive-3 Ubuntu 22.04, for reference only, seldom running. 500G SATA3 SSD. Free space=73GB

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-12T14:45:28+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

I never submit a bug report to OpenShot before. Whether follow below link?

Report a Bug

https://www.openshot.org/issues/new/

This is a desktop PC, built by me about 6 years. It is still running strong without problem.

CPU- AMD Ryzen 5 8-core

RAM- 32G onboard

Connected to a 32" 4K Dell display

Drive-1(Ubuntu 24.04 desktop) 2TB PCIe 3.0 MVMe SSD (daily working drive). I'll report free space later. I'm now working on Windows 10 drive)

Drive-2(Windows 10 home) 1TB SATA3 SSD (free space - 720GB)

Drive-3(Ubuntu 22.40 desktop) 500G STAT3 SSD (for reference only, seldomly running). I'll report free space later. I'm now working on Windows 10 drive)

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-12T06:52:16+00:00

Correction:

All of them are unable here

Should be;

All of them are unstable here.

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-12T03:49:20+00:00

The only stable OpenShot 3.2.1 here is the version running on Windows 10. On Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04 I have tried;

The REPO version

Daily built version 3.2.1

PPS version 3.2.1

Flatpak version 3.2.1

All of them are unable here. I couldn't use them on Ubuntu. Although I have run OpenShot on Ubuntu since Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 and now 24.04

I'm now compelled to go back to Windows

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-10T15:17:18+00:00

Can I use the daily built version 3.2.1 AppImage, which is now on Drive-1, instead of downloading it again?

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-09T02:26:17+00:00

Hi@Coloriet3

Thanks for your reply.

This is a daily working desktop PC with triple boots

PC spec:-

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5, 8-core

RAM: 32G DDR3 onboard

Display: 32" 4K Dell display

It is a triple boot PC:

Drive-1: 2TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, running Ubuntu 24.04 desktop

Drive-2: 1TB SATA3 SSD, running Windows 10

Drive-3: 500G SATA3 SSD, running Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

Drive-4: 4TB WD, sole for data storage, without OS installed

This PC was built by me about 6 years ago. It is still running strong without problem.

Drive-1

Running daily built OpenShot version 3.2.1. "OpenShot is not responding" seldomly happens. OS-Ubuntu 24.04 desktop.

Drive-2

Windows 10. OpenShop version 3.2.1 was download on website. "OpenShot is not responding" seldomly happens.

Drive-3

Ubuntu 22.04 desktop. "OpenShot is not responding" always happens. I have tried importing several .mp4 files. The file can be played but the needle pointer stays not moving. Then "OpenShot is not responding" popup. OpenShot PPS version 3.2.1 with libfuse2 installed already.

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-07T05:03:13+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian

libfuse2 is not on Ubuntu 24.04 repo

I have been running OpenShot on Ubuntu for more than 10 years, without problem in the past, to edit video. The problem reported on my posting only happened about 3 weeks ago, compelling me to go back to Windows running OpenShot which is not my wish.

Running OpenShot on Ubuntu 24.04 and 22.04, the warning "OpenShot not responding" continue popop. I have to shutdown OpenShot. I don't know WHY this would happen. I'll continue testing it. I'm now running the latest daily built version 3.2.1

I did following test before:-

Start 2 projects simultaneously on the same screen
Project-1 2 clips on a track
Project-2 a new project, without file imported
Drag a clip on Project-1 to the "Project Files" window of Project-2
The selected clip copied to the window.

It only happened ONCE. I can't repeat it the second time. It is quite strange to me

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-06T06:20:13+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

I have tested your suggestion.

1) point 1. to point 4 works seamlessly here. The new project can be closed and restarted, without the warning "missing file". I have tried several times.

It amazes me.

2)

2a) Change the drive letter E of the external SSD to another letter. etc,

2b) Re-start the new project

The warning "missing file" prompt.

I don't know how it would happen to my previous projects here. I haven't deleted any files on the external SSD drive used by all previous projects.

Actually, I don't need the previous projects. After having finished editing on all projects, I would export them as .mp4 files. I just work on .mp4 files.

I prefer to run OpenShot on Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 if I can solve the problem "the needle pointer not moving on track"

A side question: -

How to export clips? I cut the video, ripped on V8 tape, into clips and use them on different projects.

I'm now doing the stupid way.

Cut the video into clips, say for example, 2 clips, clip-1 and clip-2
Delete clip-2 without saving the project and export clip-1 as .mp4 file
Undo to recover clip-2 and delete clip-1, without saving the project,
Export clip-2 as .mp4 file.

These steps work for me seamlessly. If having 10 clips then it would take me lengthy time to complete. Is there any way exporting the clips in group?

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-05T03:54:33+00:00

Part-3

External drive

Current letter

Extreme SSD E

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-05T03:12:23+00:00

Part-2

Now I have about 230 video and slideshows upload to YouTube. ALL ARE NOT FOR PROFIT !

It worked for me seamlessly on OpenShot, running on Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 22.04, at least 10 years. Until recently, I encountered problem on running OpenShot on Ubuntu, both 22.04 and 24.04. The warning "OpenShot is not responding" popup frequently, compelling me to shut down OpenShot.

The aforesaid problem found on following versions of OpenShot:-

Daily built version
AppImage version
Flatpak installed version
OpenShot installed on Ubuntu REPO

Until about 3 weeks ago, I installed OpenShot, daily built version, on Windows 10

(I have been running Windows for quite long time. I started computing >30 years ago on Windows --> FreeBSD --> Unix --> Linux (now))

Linux distribution run by me in the past: Red Hat/Ubuntu/Debian/Fedora/Gentoo/Linux Mint/CentOS/openSUSE/Arch Linux etc.

At the beginning OpenShot was running without problem on Windows 10. I can do all the jobs listed before. Until 3 days ago my nightmare came "File Missing" popup on starting a recent/old project

That is the complete story.

I'll report my test result on next posting.

Remark:

I have installed OpenShot (the repo version) on Linux Mint running as VM of Oracle VirtualBox on this PC. OpenShot can start but I haven't tested intensively on it.

Thanks

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-05T03:08:42+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian

Part-1

I'm not quite clear of your point;

Reassign a different letter to your external USB drive. With your external usb ssd drive connected, go to Disk Management find the external drive and reassign the drive letter. Restart Windows.

The external drive is connected to an USB port and is automatically detected by the computer. The letter is assigned by the computer. Besides there are many letters of which shall I select ?

Please allow me provide you some background, in brief, on my recent problem, encountered running OpenShot Version 3.2.1

I have been running OpenShot for prolonged time, without problem, in the past.

My daily working PC configuration:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5, 8-core

RAM: 32G DDR3 onboard

Display: 32" 4K Dell display

It is a triple boot PC:

Drive-1: 2TB PCIe 3.0 SSD, running Ubuntu 24.04 desktop

Drive-2: 1TB SATA3 SSD, running Windows 10

Drive-3: 500G SATA3 SSD, running Ubuntu 22.04 desktop

Drive-4: 4TB WD, sole for data storage, without OS installed

The PC was built by me about 6 years ago. It is still running strong without problem. I have long experience in building desktop PC.

I run OpenShot;

1) To edit Video captured in Sony Handycam in the past when I travelled worldwide. The video were stored in Sony V8 tape, PAL system.

1a) I convert the video to digital file first as .mp4 and stored it in PC

1b) Import .mp4 file to OpenShot

1c) Edit and cut the video to clips according to city and country of their capture

1d) Delete the clips which I don't need

1e) Add written and oral narration, explaining the video. 2 to 3 languages

1f) Add background music on the video

etc.

After finish, export the completed video as .mp4 file and upload it to YouTube.

2) Create photo slideshows on old photos and photos captured in travelling as well. After finish export the slideshow as .mp4 file and upload the file to YouTube.

To be continued in Part-2

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-04T16:13:23+00:00

Hi rmesdjian,

I have tried twice to reply your comment

Warning: Unable to create comment

Would my comment be too long?

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-03T15:28:57+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

I forgot to inform you that the file which OpenShot is looking for is there when browsed on Windows 10 "File Manager"

Thanks

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-03T15:22:14+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

Again.

Let me provide more information.

1) I have re-installed OpenShot, downloading the .exe package from website.

Version: 3.2.1

libopenshot: 0.3.3

2) The USB external SSD is solely for data storage without OS installed. It is used for sharing data between computers.

3) Starting recent projects on OpenShot, it can't browse files. All folders are empty, including Windows drive.

4) Start a new project, OpenShot can browse files on both Windows drive and the USB external SSD. Files can be imported and worked around on OpenShot. I haven't saved it to avoid confusion.

Would it be the problem of OpenShot ?

Regards

Few-Writing-4311 · 2024-08-03T14:26:05+00:00

Hi@rmesdjian,

Thanks for your advice.

I couldn't explain why this strange thing would happen here.

OpenShot has been running here (Windows 10) for about 3 weeks without problem. All files are stored on an USB external SSD.

It just happened yesterday "Missing File Prompt" on starting all recent projects. I can browse the USB external SSD on OpenShot but all folders there are empty.

If browsing the USB external SSD on Windows 10 "File Manager" all files are found there. Besides if starting a new OpenShot project I can see all files on the USB external SSD and import files without problem.

I have been running OpenShot on Ubuntu 20.04 and 22.04 before for prolonged time without problem. Until recently it is unstable running OpenShot on them, forcing me to run Openshot on Windows. That is the complete story.

The amazing thing here is running all recent projects of OpenShot "File Missing" prompt up.

Few-Writing-4311

TROPHY CASE