Shotcut

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.

Timeline:

• Added Ripple support for moving clips including Ripple All Tracks
• When Ripple is on and you move a clip to the right, it now
• ripples (pushes) all the clips to the right instead of making a transition
• (including the Ripple All Tracks option)
• Added Ctrl+R keyboard shortcut to toggle Timeline Ripple,
• Ctrl+Alt+R to toggle Ripple All Tracks, and
• Ctrl+Shift+R to toggle both
• Improved Snapping behavior on the Timeline
• Added Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut to toggle Snapping
• Added Reset Track Height (Ctrl+0) to the Timeline menu

Filters:

• Added a Timer video filter
• Added support for negative rotation to the Rotate and Scale filter
• Added Shake 1 Second - Scaled and Shake 1 Second - Unscaled presets
• to the Size and Position filter

Other:

• Added a Text clip to the Open Other dialog
• This is a convenience item that creates a transparent Color clip with a
• Text filter
• Added Extract Sub-clip to Properties menu for audio/video clip
• Added Export presets for WebM VP8 and VP9 with alpha channel

Better:

• Fixed a crash when quickly changing clip selections in the Timeline
• Improved closing Shotcut more reliably and the behavior of multiple shotcut
• processes
• Fixed Undo beyond Remove Track may crash
• Fixed a crash when moving a clip after undoing a transition
• Fixed a crash loading project after some sequence of inserting and removing tracks
• Fixed a crash loading an image with the wrong filename extension
• Fixed OS audio device changes may cause Shotcut to hang
• Fixed crash dragging simple keyframes beyond the edges of the clip

Bug Fixes:

• Improved behavior of opening WebP images
• Fixed advanced keyframes for the Size and Position filter
• Fixed inserted and then hidden video tracks become audio tracks after
• re-opening the project
• Fixed changing Video Mode from Automatic to something else with
• nothing opened
• Fixed moving a transition to another track leaves a hidden clip on the old track
• Fixed trimming the out point of a timeline clip may change the in point of
• the following clip
• Fixed Properties > Speed, Convert, Reverse, and
• More Information does not work sometimes after reloading a project
• Fixed reliability of changing size and position fields with keyframes
• in Size and Position and Text filters
• Fixed trimming outward with Ripple All Tracks moved clips on other tracks
• in the wrong direction
• Fixed audio waveforms still appear on muted tracks after adding a track

Image Fidelity:

• Fixed edges of text with the Text filter may get cut off (clipped)
• Fixed Size and Position and Rotate and Scale filters may leave black
• right and bottom edge of frame
• Fixed trimming a timeline clip with Fade In/Out Video filters
• with "Adjust opacity instead of fade with black" enabled
• Fixed Export may change the actual frame rate and cause timing errors.
• Fixed reducing the Frame/sec in Export causes timing errors in the output

Changes:

• Removed the Compositing toggle icon from the Timeline track head. Now,
• it is located in the track Properties as Blend mode with a None option
• In the 3D Text filter, replaced the Droid fonts with Liberation due to an
• incompatible license

Faster:

• Well, to be honest, there is not much speed improvement. Most of the improvement
• comes from a fix to prevent an incomplete shutdown. In the case of the 32-bit
• Windows build, since more memory can be accessed now, we have removed some of
• (not all) multi-threading limits
• Improved the performance of changing filter parameters and scrubbing
• Limit the number of background thumbnail and waveform generation threads to 4
• Prevent trying to generate audio levels for waveforms for still images and
• other silent sources