Path to Blender

[BDE88]

Question:
I have installed Blender as suggested with sudo apt install blender and this went ok. But I am trying to find out what the path is that I have to enter into OpenShot to make animated titles work. There is in the manual no explanation about this. I made several guesses but unsuccessfully.

System Details:

• OpenShot Version 3.3.0
• Operating System / Distro: Linux Mint 21.3

Screenshots: (Optional)

[Colorjet3]

First of all I am not a Linux expert. With that said, I have several Linux virtual environments for testing OpenShot (Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora). In each of these environments and sometimes even when an update happens (i.e., Ubuntu 22.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04), it seems like things change and something breaks.

I fired up Linux mint in my environment and like you I could not get the path correctly for Blender to work when trying to create "Animated Titles".

In the past, I was able to download the AppImage of Blender an then point OpenShot to the AppImage and that worked. No luck in Linux mint. The Blender AppInage version I have is 2.9 and not the latest so that may have something to do with it. I looked for a the latest Blender AppImage and I can not find it (not sure if it is even supported).

We need @jonoomph (lead developer) to chime in and see what might a solution be for this to work.

One thing I did not try and I don't have the chance right now to do so, is to install Blender via PPA (if that is even supported in Linux Mint), then point OpenShot to this installation and see if that works.