Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor. Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFMPEG, Video compositing across video tracks, Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux and MacOS, Blackmagic Design SDI and HDMI for input and preview monitoring.
Wide Format Support:
- Support for the latest audio and video formats thanks to FFmpeg
- Supports popular image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, SVG, TGA, TIFF as well as image sequences
- No import required - native timeline editing
- Frame-accurate seeking for many formats
- Multi-format timeline: mix and match resolutions and frame rates within a project
- Webcam capture
- Audio capture
- Support for 4K resolutions
- Network stream playback (HTTP, HLS, RTMP, RTSP, MMS, UDP)
- Frei0r video generator plugins (e.g. color bars and plasma)
- Color, noise, and counter generators
- EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
- Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
Audio Features:
- Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
- Volume control
- Audio filters:
- Balance, Bass & Treble, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Limiter, Low Pass, Normlize: One Pass, Normalize: Two Pass, Notch, Pan, Reverb, Swap Channels
- Audio mixing across all tracks
- Fade in and out audio and fade video from and to black with easy-to-use fader controls on timeline
- Cross-fade audio and video dissolve transitions easily by overlapping shots on the same track of the timeline
- JACK transport sync
- Tone generator
- Stereo, mono, and 5.1 surround
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, Audio Spectrum Visualization, Blur, Brightness, Chroma Key: Advanced, Chroma Key: Simple, Contrast, Color Grading, Crop, Diffusion, Glow, Hue/Lightness/Saturation, Invert Colors, Key Spill: Advanced, Key Spill: Simple, Lens Correction, 3D LUT, Mask, Mirror, Mosaic, Old Film: Dust, Old Film: Grain, Old Film: Projector, Old Film: Scratches, Old Film: Technocolor, Opacity, Rotate and Scale, Rutt-Etra-Izer, Saturation, Sepia Tone, Sharpen, Size and Position, Sketch, Stabilize, Text, Vignette, Unpremultiply Alpha, Wave, White Balance
- Speed effect for audio/video clips
- Reverse a clip
Editing Features:
- Trimming on source clip player or timeline with ripple option
- Easy-to-use cut, copy, and paste operations
- 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
- Keyframes for filter parameters
- Detach audio from video clip
Cross Platform & Codec Independent:
- Cross platform support: available on Windows, Linux, and macOS)
- Codec independent so does not rely on system codecs
- Can run as a portable app from external drive
- UI translations: Catalan, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Gaelic, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Nepali, Norwegian Bokmål, Occitan, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Taiwanese, Turkish, Ukranian (not all 100%, but you can help
- Batch encoding with job control
- Encode/transcode to a variety of formats and codecs thanks to FFmpeg
- Stream (encode to IP) files and any capture source
- Video quality measurement (PSNR and SSIM)
- Perform integrity check of an audio/video file
- View detailed information about an audio/video file
Display and Monitoring:
- External monitoring via Blackmagic Decklink card on NTSC monitor
- External monitoring on an extra system display/monitor
- UI themes/skins: native-OS look and custom dark and light
- Control video zoom in the player: fit viewable area (default), 10%, 25%, 50%, original (100%), and 200%
- Flexible UI through dock-able panels
- Detailed media properties panel
- Recent files panel with search
- Thumbnail and waveform caching between sessions
- Save and switch between multiple UI layouts.
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, 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
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Quickstart Guide:
- You open files by drag-n-drop in addition to the usual menu and toolbar methods.
- Tap J, K, L to control playback speed and direction. Tap J or L repeatedly to go faster.
- Tap I or O to set the in and out points.
- Press left or right cursor keys to step frame-by-frame.
- Press page up or down to step one second at-a-time.
- Press alt+left or alt+right to jump between start, in, out, and end.
Version is based on date. You can choose to update whenever you like and keep multiple versions (new versions are available monthly).
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Changelog:
This release primarily contains only bug fixes, which were strongly needed after a few releases with major additions and changes:
- Added the timecode of failure to the Jobs panel when an export job fails (makes locating problem areas in the project easier).
- Added an Unpremultiply Alpha video filter (handy to fix compositing for video clips with an alpha channel that has had its color pre-multiplied with its alpha).
- Fixed various crash regressions since v18.05.
- Fixed audio distortion during preview (regression in v18.07).
- Fixed custom Export presets broken if name contains parentheses (regression in v18.07).
- Fixed Properties > Reverse… broken if numeric region setting uses comma for decimal (regression in v18.07).
- Fixed Overlay HTML editor easily destroys default scripts (introduced in v18.07) if WebVfx JavaScript extension enabled.
- Fixed custom interlaced Export presets loading as progressive (regression in v18.07)
- Fixed Timeline > Copy Timeline to Source > Export fails on unsaved (Untitled) project.
- Fixed Text filter has aliased edges (regression in v18.07).
- Fixed Stabilize video filter not available on Linux (regression since v18.06).
- Fixed changing Speed in Properties breaks all filters on that clip (regression since v18.05).
- Fixed Fade Out Video (and keyframes in general) broken on still images whose in point is > 0 (regression since v18.03).
- Fixed accuracy of Properties > Duration for image clip on the timeline.
- Some fixes for changing Settings > Video Mode after starting a project.
- Fixed compositing of upper video tracks becomes broken if bottom video track is deleted.
- Fixed images with alpha channel (e.g. PNG) on upper video tracks have dark edges after compositing if the Size and Position or Rotate and Scale filters are not used.
Requirements:
- 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7+
- 64-bit macOS 10.8+
- 64-bit Mint 17+, Ubuntu 14.04+, Debian 8+, Fedora 21+, Arch/Manjaro
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Homepage
Tutorials
https://www.shotcut.org/tutorials/
32-bit Windows Download
https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v18.08/shotcut-win32-180801.exe
https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html/shotcut-win32-180801.exe
https://www.videohelp.com/download/shotcut-win32-180801.exe
64-bit Windows Download
https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v18.08/shotcut-win64-180801.exe
https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html/shotcut-win64-180801.exe
https://www.videohelp.com/download/shotcut-win64-180801.exe
32-bit Portable Windows Download
https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v18.08/shotcut-win32-180801.zip
https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html/shotcut-win32-180801.zip
https://www.videohelp.com/download/shotcut-win32-180801.zip
64-bit Portable Windows Download
https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v18.08/shotcut-win64-180801.zip
https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html/shotcut-win64-180801.zip
https://www.videohelp.com/download/shotcut-win64-180801.zip
64-bit Mac Download (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.)
https://github.com/mltframework/shotcut/releases/download/v18.08/shotcut-macos-x86_64-180801.dmg
https://www.fosshub.com/Shotcut.html/shotcut-macos-x86_64-180801.dmg
https://www.videohelp.com/download/shotcut-macos-x86_64-180801.dmg
64-bit Linux Download