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 26.2.26 changelog:
Fixes
- Fixed crash when adding long video to Timeline with Qt 6.10.1 (broke in v26.1).
- Fixed black or green bottom bar on Windows with HEVC video source and Settings > Preview Scaling > Use Hardware Decoder plus preview scaling (broke in v26.1).
- Restored Generate to the main toolbar with View > Show Text Under Icons (changed in v26.1).
- Fixed crash in the RGB Shift video filter (broke in v25.12).
- Fixed FLAC export has a bad duration disabling scrub bars in players (broke in v25.12).
- Fixed crash on various enabled Playlist actions with nothing selected:
- GoTo
- Move Up
- Move Down
- Add Selected to Timeline
- Add Selected to Slideshow
- Sort By Name
- Sort By Date
- Fixed Show In Files for a reverse job.
- Fixed choosing Export > Codec > h264_videotool on macOS not reliably setting B frames to 0.
- Fixed keyframes for Text: Typewriter > Position & Size not working.
Changes
- Added support for the underline and strikethrough options in the font dialog for the text filters.
- Added a search field to Subtitles.
- Added holding Alt while clicking Mute and Hide on the Timeline track to toggle all of the other tracks.
- Added holding Shift with the mouse wheel to Zoom the player.
- Added Playlist > Log Event (Shift+E) to append a 6 second clip (±3 secs) at the current Source player time.
- Improved the performance of Timeline and Keyframes waveforms rendering.
- Changed mouse wheel behavior for the Video Zoom video scope:
- The wheel alone (no modifier key) now scrolls vertically.
- Hold Ctrl to zoom.
- Hold Alt to scroll horizontally.
- Removed Settings > Player > Deinterlacer > Linear Blend (obsolete, removed in FFmpeg).
Download: Shotcut 26.2.26 | Portable | ARM64 ~200.0 MB (Open Source)
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