Shotcut 22.09.23

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 22.09.23 changelog:

Added limited support for reading WebP Animation.
Show audio-clips without album art as a checkboard for transparent instead of white.
Added the GPS Graphic video filter (see its presets).
Added the gopro2gpx utility to let you export a GPX file from a GoPro video using Properties > menu > Export GPX. This saves the .gpx in the same folder as the video file with the same name but different exension.
Added Fisheye video filter (see its presets).
Added snapping to the playhead to Keyframes.

Added Help > Actions and Shortcuts:

Provides a unified action search and shortcut editor.
Replaces the old Keyboard Shortcuts... item in the Help menu and takes its keyboard shortcut ?.
/ is also a default shortcut, and either shortcut can be changed.
Searches both action name and shortcut.
Press Return/Enter within search to move focus to the list of actions.
Press Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and close the dialog.
Shift, Ctrl, or Alt + Return/Enter on a selected action to trigger it and NOT close the dialog.
Double-click an action to trigger it but NOT close the dialog.
The dialog is not modal so you can leave it open and to the side while working.
Press Esc when the dialog has focus to close it.
Press F2 when an action is selected to edit its first shortcut.
Single-click a selected shortcut to enter edit mouse using the mouse. This means you typically need two single clicks: one to select, the second to enter into edit mode.
You can Tab out of edit mode to navigate focus to the apply button and press Space to trigger the apply. It is intentional that you cannot assign Tab as a keyboard shortcut to an action.
There are some keyboard buttons such as J/K/L that are reserved and cannot be used in a shortcut. You will see an error message when you try to apply it.
You can define up to 2 shortcuts per action! You may want to leave the default as well as add your preferred shortcut.

A big portion of the UI had to be rewritten to support this. As a result:

All panel (hamburger) menus are consistently on the left/first.
Panel-specific Options sub-menus were moved to Settings main menu.
The keyboard shortcut to switch the player between Source and Project is now P.
Various hidden or under-exposed actions now have a menu item somewhere including a new Player main menu.
Many translations will be lost.
The default shortcuts to change the current track now require Ctrl+Alt in addition to cursor up and down.

Improved support for custom video transitions:

There is a folder now in the App Data Directory named transitions where you can store these.
All files in the transitions folder are listed in transition Properties, the Mask: From File video filter, and the Slideshow Generator dialog.
Added a favorite button in transition Properties and Mask: From File that copies your chosen custom file to the transitions folder.
Added a quick preview to transition properties.
Added the ability to drag-scroll/pan using the middle mouse button (press mouse wheel) to Timeline, Keyframes, and the player when zoomed in.

Improved the Filters picker:

Added translatable keywords to facilitate search. For example, "transform" includes Size, Position & Rotate.
Added the English filter name in an untranslatable manner to the keywords so people using a translation can more more easily find things based on proliferic English advice.
Added support for a small animated icon.

Other changes / fixes:

Added the alpha Operation, Reverse, and Invert parameters to the Mask: Draw video filter.
Added Settings > Reset... to reset all settings including hidden ones.
Fixed Move Track Up or Move Track Down breaks the order of blending/compositing.
Fixed opening files with a % in their path or name.
Fixed sometimes a date does not appear in Playlist.
Fixed Old Film: Scratches video filter not working (broke in version 22.04).
Fixed Stabilize video filter uses invalid analysis data after pasted.
Fixed File > Open MLT XML as Clip... changes the current Video Mode.
Fixed audio artifacts introduced after splitting a clip that has been converted or reversed using the better/large/DNxHR option.
Fixed Text: Rich filter's toolbar may not reflect the current text color.
Upgraded FFmpeg to v5.1.0
Upgraded dav1d AV1 decoder v1.0
Upgraded AOM AV1 encoder to v3.4.0
Upgraded libvpx VP8/9 encoder to v1.12.0
Upgraded VMAF to v2.3.1
Upgraded Glaxnimate to v0.5.1