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 23.05.07 changelog:
- Restored Settings > GPU Effects.
- Restored Lens Correction video filter.
- Added Motion Tracker video filter.
- Added Speed: Forward Only and Speed: Forward & Reverse filters.
- Added saving and loading filter sets: Filters > + > Sets.
- Added an Add To Timeline button to many things in Open Other.
- Added a visual rectangle control to the Mask: Simple Shape filter.
- Holding Shift while dragging a point in the Corner Pin filter moves all corners together.
- Added faster and better quality YADIF deinterlacer plus addition of BWDIF deinterlacer.
- Added 10-bit export presets under the "ten_bit" category.
- Added support for Intel ("qsv") AV1 and VP9 hardware encoders on Windows including 10-bit for AV1.
- Less audio crackling in exports when audio source is not 48000 Hz sample rate.
- Less audio crackling upon start of playback in preview.
- Upgraded Qt to version 6.4.
- Upgraded Glaxnimate to version 0.5.3, which fixes some bugs and can animate motion along a drawn path.
- Upgraded FFmpeg to latest version 6.
- Upgraded MLT to latest version 7.16.0.
- Upgrade AV1 codecs to latest versions.
- Stabilize and Normalize: Two Pass on a timeline clip is faster.
- The Lens Correction video filter is back.
- Added Settings > Language > Hebrew.
- Open Other > Text now has a Rich option.
- Changed File > Export > Video and its shortcut to be the same as clicking Export > Export File.
- Fixed seeking on raw FLAC audio files.
- Fixed Record Audio breaks the state of the player"s mute toggle when you unmute the Shotcut audio during recording.
- Fixed using the mouse wheel to scroll the timeline horizontally on macOS and Linux.
- Fixed image padding not transparent during a transition.
- Added low disk space warnings to the Properties > Convert and Reverse actions.
- Fixed loading projects made with version before 19.06 using comma for decimal symbol.
- Fixed chroma bleeding for interlaced YUV 4:2:0 video sources.
- Fixed Shotcut became very slow if something wrong and very large was saved to Recent.
- Removed Settings > Theme.
- Removed Settings > Player > External Monitor with a system monitor.
- Removed Settings > Display Method on Windows and macOS.
- Removed export progress on the Windows taskbar icon.
- The minimum version for Windows is now Windows 10.
- The minimum version of our non-Flatpak Linux binaries is now based on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, which uses glibc 2.31.
- The macOS app is now universal and runs on either Intel or Apple Silicon without Rosetta.
Download: Shotcut 23.05.07 (64-bit) | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
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