OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before

Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by Schlagbohrer on Monday August 31, 2026 @06:30AM (#49508014)

Has anyone tried having a local agent (like Qwen) use this? I wonder how good the API is for programmatic / CLI usage.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by drob518 on Monday August 31, 2026 @07:17AM (#49508314)

That was the first question that popped into my head as well. We’re now in the age of “AI all the things,” so it seems like every app needs an API or CLI of some sort. Everything needs to be machine accessible.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by nasso_dev on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:08AM (#49508661)

shouldn't we focus on human accessibility first? it also makes things more "machine accessible" as a byproduct, but at least humans remain the main focus

also, openshot is foss. can't you just give the source code to your clanker and let it mod itself in the app?

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by dmix on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:20AM (#49508780)

> shouldn't we focus on human accessibility first?

This is the big question for designers, how much of the future of software will be human-oriented UIs vs a human typing into a chat window (or as a temporary bridge, telling an agent to operate existing GUIs).

For now I believe agent-driven software is still pretty niche, something for highly technical users, but that will change as it mainstreams. Early adopters demand early adopter software features.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by nasso_dev on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:45AM (#49509039)

a chat window is actually HORRIBLE for many tasks. i really strongly hope this isn't what the future of software looks like

there is just no way a chat interface could replace a non-linear video editor gui

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by phatskat on Monday August 31, 2026 @12:17PM (#49511515)

> a chat window is actually HORRIBLE for many tasks. i really strongly hope this isn't what the future of software looks like

I strongly concur - I don't want to "tell" the app to level the audio between several clips only to have it level everything to 0 and then take five minutes to undo etc

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by dmix on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:20PM (#49516818)

Everyone always views it through the current UX when I say stuff like this. The way I see it is we're in the DOS/UNIX era of LLMs where you're just staring at an empty text input box, it's slow, breaks often, GUI integrations are non-existent or primitive, etc.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by _joel on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:57AM (#49509891)

I would assume it would be for driving via agentic means, more AI video slop.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by dmix on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:00PM (#49516694)

It's not a replacement for sure. There's no way it could be a full replacement for visual UIs.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by ReptileMan on Monday August 31, 2026 @09:51AM (#49509823)

Yes we should. Still UI is for telling the software to do meaningful work. Which means that every well designed UI software will have ready to expose api lurking just benath the surface.

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Re:OpenShot 4.0: Record, Edit, and Color Like Never Before by drob518 on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:30AM (#49510224)

Of course the human UI should be first. Did anyone say anything different?

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