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Shotcut 25.01.25

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 25.01.25 changelog:

What's new

  • Added Bins and media type & text search to Playlist.
  • Added View > Files panel.
  • Added Show in Files to Properties and Jobs.
  • Added HSL Primaries and HSL Range video filters (HSL = Hue/Saturation/Lightness).
  • Added Gradient Map video filter.
  • Added Settings > Player > Pause After Seek toggle that defaults to on (old behavior).
  • Added a Type parameter to Fade In Audio and Fade Out Audio filters.
  • Added Export hardware encoding for Windows on Arm CPUs (h264_mf and hevc_mf codecs).
  • Added Settings > Language > Irish.
  • Improved support for MLT XML clip/sub-projects:
  • Now more tolerant to inconsistent video modes, there are Properties, and you can add a Speed: Forward Only time filter.

Fixes and Changes

  • Improved Playlist > Generate Slideshow with trimmed video clips making it more useful to make a montage.
  • Fixed incorrect color change when mixing video tracks and certain filters such as Hue/Lightness/Saturation.
  • Fixed scrub bar and Timeline & Keyframes rulers not using Settings > Time Format.
  • Fixed File > Export > Markers as Chapters when Settings > Time Format is not Clock.
  • Fixed Subtitles works incorrectly after a couple of minutes with non-integer frame rates.
  • Fixed Settings > Clear Recent on Exit not clearing the Projects list.
  • Fixed View > Application Log > Previous not appearding on Windows.
  • Fixed changing Properties > Duration of image on Timeline not adjusting video filters keyframes.
  • Fixed Properties > Export GPX not working with GoPro HERO 11, 12 & 13.
  • Fixed Export > Presets > lossless > H.264 with NVIDIA hardware encoder.
  • Fixed "Use font size" in Text: Simple, GPS Text, Subtitle Burn In and Timer filters not applying from a saved preset.
  • Fixed the color picker (pick color from screen) when Shotcut is not on the primary screen.
  • Fixed the color picker on the Wayland graphics subsystem in Linux.
  • Fixed drag-n-drop from the Source player on Wayland for Linux.
  • Added native support for Wayland (without Xwayland) in the Flatpak for Linux.
  • Fixed unable to extend duration of text clips made by Subtitles > Generate Text on Timeline.
  • Fixed Properties > Convert job progress when deinterlacing or changing frame rate.
  • Fixed the subtitle track and times on ruler disapper when Timeline is floated.
  • Fixed the Delete and Clear actions in the Text: Rich editor not working.
  • Export preset H.264 High Profile now defaults to a higher quality 65% than YouTube or the defaults.
  • Removed File > Open Other > JACK Audio on Linux to remove the hard run-time dependency on libjack.so for Shotcut. However, that library is still needed to get some of the bundled audio filters (unless they load from system-installed "swh" LADSPA plugins).
  • Improved support for pix_fmt=yuv420p10le or yuv444p10le, colorspace=2020, color_trc=arib-std-b67 or smpte2084 in Export > Other for 10-bit pass-through (i.e. no image effects) editing without GPU Effects (i.e. rudimentary HDR editing without adequate preview).
  • Upgraded dependencies: MLT 7.30.0, Qt 6.8.1, dav1d 1.5.0, AOM AV1 3.11.0, OpenCV 4.10, libvpx 1.15.0, Opus 1.5.2, WebP 1.5.0, SVT-AV1 2.3.0

Download: Shotcut 25.01.25 | Portable | ARM64 ~150.0 MB (Open Source)
View: Shotcut Home Page | Other Operating Systems

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