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 23.12.15 changelog:
- Fixed crash on start on Wayland on Ubuntu 22.04 and 23.10 - may require installing qt6-wayland package (broke in v23.11).
- This breaks support for Wayland on Ubuntu 23.04, which is a less important version than the other two.
- The combination of Wayland and Qt 6 seems impossible to handle universally in the portable/AppImage/Snap binary bundle. If installing a Qt 6 Wayland package does not work in your distro, some options are to login using an X session instead of Wayland or try the Flatpak.
- Fixed numerous audio filters missing on macOS/Intel (broke in v23.11).
- Fixed Equalizer: Parametric > Preset not loading (broke in v23.09).
- Fixed Slideshow Generator not padding videos on mismatching aspect ratio (broke in v23.09).
- Fixed Timeline waveform is not updated when changing Properties > Audio > Track.
- Fixed #filename# and #basename# keywords in Text: Simple video filter with non-ASCII filenames on Windows.
- Fixed Properties > View Bitrate opens too big on high DPI screen.
- Fixed Properties > View Bitrate > Save image is not anti-aliased.
- Fixed Properties > Measure Video Quality accuracy when Color range is Full.
- Fixed some minor memory leaks.
- Changed all NVENC hardware encoders in Export to use CQ instead of constant QP for VBR rate control.
- Ugraded FFmpeg to version 6.1
- Upgraded AV1 decoder dav1d to version 1.4 and AV1 encoder libaom-av1 to version 3.8.0
- Upgraded rubberband audio pitch library to version 3.3.0
Download: Shotcut 23.12.15 (64-bit) | Portable | ~150.0 MB (Open Source)
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