Shotcut 23.12.15

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 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