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Shotcut

Name: Shotcut
Rating: 5 (6 reviews)

19.10.20

21 October 2019

Free open-source video editor.

Overview

Shotcut is a free, open-source, cross-platform video editor

Features:

Supports oodles of audio and video formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
Supports many image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF, as well as image sequences
No import required - native editing
Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g., color bars and plasma)
Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring
JACK transport sync
Deinterlacing
Detailed media properties panel
Recent files panel
Drag-and-drop files from file manager
Save and load trimmed clip as MLT XML file
Load and play complex MLT XML file as a clip
Audio signal level meter
Volume control
Scrubbing and transport control
Flexible UI through dock-able panels
Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg (or libav as-built)
Capture (record) SDI, HDMI, webcam (V4L2), JACK, PulseAudio, IP streams, X11 screen
Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
Batch encoding with job control
Create, play, edit, save, load, encode, and stream MLT XML playlists
Unlimited undo and redo for playlist edits including a history view
Connect to Melted servers over MVCP TCP protocol
Control the transport playback of Melted units
Edit Melted playlists including suport for undo/redo
OpenGL GPU-based image processing
Multi-core parallel image processing when not using GPU (and frame-dropping is disabled)
Video filters: blur, color grading, crop, glow, mirror, saturation, sharpen
3-way (shadows, mids, highlights) color wheels for color correction and grading
Eye dropper tool to pick neutral color for white balancing
Translated to Spanish, French, Czech, and German

Note: Since the application is not signed, you need to Control-click the app icon and choose Open from the context menu the first time you run it.

What's new in Shotcut

Version 19.10.20:

Fixes

Fixed Open Other > Audio/Video Device capture (broken in v19.09).
Fixed a crash in Timeline when you Lift the first clip in a track (broken in v19.09).
Fixed automatic configuration of VA-API for Export > Use hardware encoder (broken in v19.09).
Fixed Blend Mode filter affects other clips on the track (if the track Properties > Blend mode was not changed).
Fixed adding keyframes to some video filters into area after extending the clip:
Text: Simple
Rotate and Scale
Size and Position
Fixed color picker not automatically changing alpha from 0 to 255.
Fixed a restarted job reports stopped when completed successfully.
Fixed HTML file names with extended UTF-8 chars on Linux.
Fixed Timeline audio waveform after changing Properties > Audio > Track.
Fixed a crash opening a project that includes itself by making a self-repair on open.
Fixed saving the length property in MLT XML as a time value independent of frame rate.
Fixed changing Video Mode of an opened project breaks timing of edits.
Fixed Timeline ruler not synchronized with the tracks' scroll after resizing panel or window.
Fixed Timeline > Undo after splitting the second clip of a transition corrupts the timeline.

Changes

Use the main video stream by default when there is an embedded album/poster/thumbnail.
Minor improvements to the ProRes Export preset.
Improved performance of some video filters when using parallel processing:
Blur: Exponential, Gaussian, Low Pass
Glow
Mask: Simple Shape
Reduce Noise: HQDN3D
Sharpen
Improved performance of track blending in areas with transparency.
Reduced the free disk space check to 25 GB.
Opening Matroska files containing HuffYUV or Ut Video is much faster.
Timeline waveforms are dimmed instead of hidden when track is muted.
Changed RGB video clip Properties > Color range to Full and disabled.
Changed Properties > Reverse and Convert to Edit-friendly best option (MKV) to use PCM for audio.
Changed the Export > lossless > Ut Video preset to the matroska format.
The signed macOS app is now notarized.

New

Added new video Filters:
Choppy
Nervous (a random selection of previous and current frame)
No Sync
Trails
Vertigo
Added Keyframes toolbar buttons and keyboard shortcuts for filter-trimming and simple keyframes:
[ = set the filter start
] = set the filter end
{ = set the first simple keyframe
} = set the second simple keyframe
Alt+[ = seek previous simple keyframe
Alt+] = seek next simple keyframe
Added keyboard shortcuts for Filters:
F = open the Filters panel and filter chooser. (At this point search has focus and the first filter is selected...)
Up/Down - select the previous or next filter in the list
Enter = add the selected filter to the list
Shift+F = remove the selected filter from the list
Added Thai translation.

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Mcr

23 February 2016

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Note to Developer:
on the home page it says requirements for OS X is 10.8+. On this MacUpdate page it still says 10.6 or later.

It appears Shotcut is using the Qt version 5 framework. For all those with OS X 10.6, note that Qt 5 is no longer tested against 10.6.
http://doc.qt.io/QtSupportedPlatforms/index.html#qt-5-4
And in case some of you don't know, by 'Qt' , does NOT mean QuickTime, it means the Qt development framework that allows you to write programs using the same code that will run on OS X, Windows and Linux. Calibre is a well known, widely used app you may have heard of that also is built using Qt.

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