openshot does not work with all Blender versions >2.56

[Floris]

Openshot gives error with Blender 2.61. Error does not exist with Blender 2.59.

Installed OpenShot 1.4.0 and Blender 2.61 from repositories (http://ppa.launchpad.net/openshot.developers/ppa/ubuntu and http://ppa.launchpad.net/cheleb/blender-svn/ubuntu).
With this install, Openshot gives following error:

Blender location:
/usr/bin/blender
Error message:
No frame was found in the output from Blender.

The blender location was verified to be correct by executing /usr/bin/blender in the terminal.

To solve, someone suggested to unpack Blender Tar to /home/user/blender. Followed these steps with current Blender 2.61 and changed blender location to /home/user/blender 2.61/blender. However, same error remains.

Then I unpacked Blender 2.59 tar to /home/user/blender 2.59/blender and changed openshot reference to point to the correct blender executable. Now my title generator does work! So at least that part of the problem has been solved.

It appears that openshot expects a response from Blender that prevents it to work with the latest Blender version as installed from repositories. From comments on the net it appears that many users still have trouble operating Openshot with Blender.

system info:
Pentium 4 2.66GHz, 1285 Mb RAM, GeForce 5700FX
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS - Lucid Lynx, Kernel 2.6.32 - 37 - generic (i686)

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Hi,

Python Blender APi have been changed and brake the animated 3d Title. We have done the modifications necessary and they will be available in the next version (aka 1.4.1) which will be out theses days. They are already available in the Daily PPA.
Thanks.