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Shotcut 19.01.27 [update]

Shotcut

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 19.01.24 fixes:

  • Fixed launch crash on Linux by excluding libdrm libraries.
  • Fixed audio level changed by the Mask : From File filter.
  • Fixed Text filter may have glitches with Export > Parallel processing (regression in v18.12.x).
  • Fixed missing file detected when Stabilize filter added without clicking Analyze.
  • Fixed external monitoring on Linux screen.
  • Fixed unable to detect hardware encoders with spaces in the installation folder path.
  • Fixed changing Speed can move a clip.
  • Fixed changing Speed has no effect when the system region and language decimal separators are different.
  • Fixed filter duration not adjusted when trimming a transition.
  • Fixed ripple trim when clip has a transition.
  • Fixed removing a transition by trimming adds some frames.
  • Fixed aspect ratio for File > Export Frame with non-square pixel video.
  • Fixed handling relative paths to external resources in the Overlay HTML editor.
  • Fixed a crash opening a project after removing the bottom video track.
  • Fixed the lossless/H.264 preset to be completely lossless.
  • Fixed dropping a file from a file manager whose name has special/extended characters (e.g. [, ]).
  • Fixed the state of the enabled checkbox for the Overlay HTML filter and when using a color picker.
  • Fixed distortion after changing the Keyframe Type of a keyframe for the Scale parameter in the Rotate and Scale filter.
  • Fixed right-clicking a keyframe to open context menu may change its position.

Changes

  • Upgraded FFmpeg to v4.1
  • Improved Color Grading filter by letting all parameters go from -100% to 100%.
  • Added an automatic retry without Parallel processing when Export job fails.
  • Set the Save as type list on the Export File dialog on Windows when a preset defines a filename extension.

New

  • Added Center Playhead option to the Timeline and Keyframes menus.
  • Added Slow Zoom ___, Hold ___ presets to the Size and Position filter.
  • Added a Chroma Hold video filter.
  • Added a Swirl (HTML) video filter.
  • Added a simple Templates framework to the Overlay HTML filter (see path Shotcut\share\shotcut\qml\filters\webvfx\templates to add your own) with the following templates:
  • Blank HTML
  • Blue Middle Bar
  • Creative Commons Music
  • Blank with Web Animations
  • Simple Scroll

Shotcut 19.01.27 changelog:

  • Fixed Text animation/keyframes not working in v19.01.24.
  • Fixed distortion when a Mirror filter is placed before a Size and
  • Position or Rotate and Scale filter.
  • Fixed Levels filter in locales with comma for decimal point.

Download: Shotcut 19.01.27 (32-bit) | Portable | ~100.0 MB (Open Source)
Download: Shotcut 19.01.27 (64-bit) | Portable | ~300.0 MB
View: Shotcut Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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