Contributing

Want to help improve OpenShot (and make some friends in the process)? Please consider joining our open-source team by filling out this quick contributor form and introduce yourself! All volunteers are welcome, regardless of skills or skill level. Let’s build something amazing!

How to Contribute

There are many different ways to help and support OpenShot, including:

All of these areas are equally important, so we would love to know which ones appeal to you the most. Please take a moment and fill-out our quick contributor form.

Did you find a bug?

Please use our step-by-step bug reporting page: https://openshot.org/issues/new/ to troubleshoot a potential new bug. This guide will instruct you on how to delete you log files, test with the latest daily build, and search for duplicate bug reports (in case someone else has already reported this same issue). At the end of the guide, it will help you create a detailed and useful bug report for our development team and volunteers.

Software Developers

OpenShot uses GitHub to manage issues and source code: https://github.com/OpenShot. Please read our guide on Becoming a Developer for a step-by-step guide on compiling OpenShot and making your first pull request on GitHub.

Made with Love

OpenShot Video Editor is a volunteer effort and a labor of love. Please be patient with any issues you find, and feel free to get involved and help us fix them!

Thank you for your support!
– OpenShot Team