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
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- 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 25.07.07 Beta changelog:
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- Fixed converting 10-bit full to limited range (broke in v25.01).
- Fixed Balance and Pan audio muted channels if audio channels > 2.
- Fixed Export > Use hardware encoder fails with H.264 on macOS 15.
- Fixed Properties > Convert or Reverse for iPhone 16 Pro videos with Ambisonic audio.
- Fixed a single frame fade out filter would either mute or make black.
- Fixed repairing a project (e.g. broken file links) with proxy turned on.
- Fixed doing Freeze Frame on the first frame of a clip.
- Fixed Mask: Apply with multiple Mask: Simple Shape (broke in v25.05)
- Added the ability to add/use multiple Mask: Apply filters.
- Added a Whisper.cpp (GGML) model downloader to the Speech to Text dialog.
- A model is no longer included in the download and installation reducing their sizes.
- Added support for 4 channels in the Copy Channel audio filter.
- Added fader and surround balance to the Balance audio filter if channels > 2.
- Added the ability to drag the waveform peak line to adjust gain.
- Added Settings > Timeline > Adjust Clip Gain/Volume.
- Added Audio/Video duration to the Slideshow Generator dialog, defaults to 4 hours.
- Added support for Scrub While Dragging to Timeline trimming.
- Added rolling an edit/trim to Timeline.
- Hold Ctrl (command on macOS) while trimming to also trim the neighbor clip.
- Added hold Shift to ripple-trim when Ripple is turned off.
- Added French (Canadian) and Lithuanian translations.
- Changed the default Export > Audio > Rate control to Average Bitrate for AAC, Opus, and MP3.
Added (target) Channels toggle buttons to many audio filters, especially useful for surround work:
- Band Pass
- Compressor
- Delay
- Downmix
- Equalizer: 3-Band
- Equalizer: 15-Band
- Equalizer: Parametric
- Expander
- Gain/Volume
- High Pass
- Low Pass
- Limiter
- Mute
- Noise Gate
- Notch
Download: ShotCut 25.07.07 Beta | Portable | ARM64 ~200.0 MB (Open Source)
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