Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. Major features include support for a wide range of formats; no import required meaning native timeline editing; Blackmagic Design support for input and preview monitoring; and resolution support to 4k.
Editing Features
- Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
- Append, insert, overwrite, lift, and ripple delete editing on the timeline
- 3-point editing
- Hide, mute, and lock track controls
- Multitrack timeline with thumbnails and waveforms
- Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
- Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML projects (with auto-save)
- Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
- Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
- Drag-n-drop files from file manager
- Scrubbing and transport control
Video Effects
- Video compositing across video tracks
- HTML5 (sans audio and video) as video source and filters
- 3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
- Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
- Deinterlacing
- Auto-rotate
- Fade in/out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
- Video wipe transitions:
- bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image
- Track compositing/blending modes:
- Over, Add, Saturate, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, Darken, Dodge, Burn, Hard Light, Soft Light, Difference, Exclusion, HSL Hue, HSL Saturation, HSL Color, HSL Luminosity.
- Video Filters:
- Alpha Channel: Adjust, Alpha Channel: View, Blur, Brightness, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Mirror, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Rotate, Rutt-Etra-Izer, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Wave, White Balance
- Speed effect for audio/video clips
Hardware Support
- Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
- Leap Motion for jog/shuttle control
- Webcam capture
- Audio capture to system audio card
- Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK audio, PulseAudio, IP stream, X11 screen, and Windows DirectShow devices
- Multi-core parallel image processing (when not using GPU and frame-dropping is disabled)
- DeckLink SDI keyer output
- OpenGL GPU-based image processing with 16-bit floating point linear per color component
Shotcut 22.03.30 changelog:
Fixes
- Fixed converting full color range 10-bit video to limited MPEG range.
- Fixed very choppy playback with certain weird or unreduced-fraction framerates.
- Fixed Video Mode > Automatic when using a webcam/video-device input.
- Fixed Position and Size in Crop: Rectangle video filter may become read-only.
- Fixed Gradient video filter when a color alpha value is not fully opaque.
- Fixed marker duration may change when dragging to change its starting time.
- Fixed Size, Position & Rotate > Zoom may change when changing the player zoom level.
- Fixed accidentally changing an unmodified clip-only project by opening a new media file.
- Fixed changing Properties > Speed may overwrite and does not honor Ripple mode.
- Fixed a transition may show "INVALID" after you undo removing it.
- Fixed Presets for the Equalizer: 3-Band audio filter not working.
- Fixed Blur: Box filter creates darker edges.
- Fixed Reduce Noise: Quantization video filter overwrites alpha chnanel.
- Fixed Properties > Audio > Sync not showing change after reloading properties (broke in v22.01).
Changes
- Restored the Use Higher Performance Waveforms option in the Timeline menu.
- Changed melt command line tool to no longer be locale-sensitive by default.
- Changed Q in Equalizer: Parametric to Bandwidth in octaves.
- Changed background capture jobs to use a high process priority.
- Changed Paste Filters to not paste a clip-only filter onto a track.
- Changed Paste Filters to not paste a filter that can only be added once.
- Removed Timeline > Copy Timeline to Source (use Markers instead).
- Stop showing the Convert to Edit-Friendly dialog when opening a HLG HDR video.
Upgraded libraries
- FFmpeg 5.0
- MLT 7.6.0
- frei0r 1.8.0
- Rubberband 2.0.2
- VMAF 2.3.0
- Qt 5.15.2 for Intel macOS - macOS 10.14 is now the minimum macOS version.
- Improved A/V synchronization in Properties > Reverse.
- Improved webcam/video-device capture on macOS.
- Improved the accuracy of View > Scopes > Audio Peak Meter.
- Improved speed of Old Film: Projector video filter.
New
- Added Export > Advanced > Video > Color range.
- Added multi-threading for all implicit video scaling including Settings > Preview Scaling.
- Added multi-threading to some video filters:
- Blur: Box
- Blur: Gaussian
- Color Grading
- Invert Colors
- Mask: From File
- Old Film: Grain
- Old Film: Scratches
- Old Film: Technocolor
- Reflect
- Sepia
- Sketch
- Spot Remover
- Threshold
- Vignette
- Wave
- Added track reordering by drag-n-drop a track header and the Timeline menu:
- Move Track Up: Alt+Shift+Up (shift+option+up on macOS)
- Move Track Down: Alt+shift+Down (shift+option+down on macOS)
- Added View > Notes panel with keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+3 (shift+command+3 on macOS).
- Added Convert to Edit-friendly when opening a HDV video file.
- Added a Record Audio button to the Timeline toolbar:
- It chooses an audio device based on either first found or last used in Audio/Video Device.
- It uses the current track if it is audio and not empty at the playhead and beyond.
- Otherwise, it adds an audio track.
- It does not prompt for a save file name when a project folder has been established.
- Added audio filter Stereo Enhancer.
- Added tooltips to Timeline clips.
- Added Markers > menu > Add Markers Around Selected Clips with keyboard shortcut Alt+M (option+M on macOS).
- Added an option to the Windows installer to register the .mlt filename extension to open with Shotcut.
Download: Shotcut 22.03.30 (64-bit) | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
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