Shotcut is a free, open source, cross-platform video editor.
FEATURES
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, WebP 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, text, noise, and counter generators
- EDL (CMX3600 Edit Decision List) export
- Export single frame as image or video as image sequence
- Videos files with alpha channel - both reading and writing
Audio Features
- Audio scopes: loudness, peak meter, waveform, spectrum analyzer
- Volume control
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Audio filters:
Balance, Bass & Treble, Band Pass, Compressor, Copy Channel, Delay, Downmix, Expander, Gain, High Pass, Limiter, Low Pass, Normalize: 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
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Video wipe transitions:
bar, barn door, box, clock (radial), diagonal, iris, matrix, and custom gradient image -
Track compositing/blending modes:
None, 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, Spot Remover, Stabilize, Text, Timer, Vignette, Unpremultiply Alpha, Wave, White Balance - Speed effect for audio/video clips
- Reverse a clip
- Waveform video scope
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
Changelog : Release 12.04.2020
Spoiler
- Added Properties > Speed > Pitch Compensation for automatic pitch correction for speed changes > 0.1x.
- Added a Replace command to Timeline clip menu including blank regions with shortcut R.
- Properties > Reverse now automatically replaces a selected clip on the timeline (or in Source player if using that).
- Added 15 second handles when using Properties > Reverse on a timeline clip. Handles are extra footage before the in point or after the out point. This makes it easier to adjust edits or add transitions around reversed clips.
- Added Properties > Duration > Timeline to show (not editable) the duration of a timeline clip.
- Added a Corner Pin video filter (thanks to @sauron in the forum for the initial effort).
- Added a Properties > Convert button to make Convert to Edit-friendly in the menu more convenient (kept in the menu for now because a number of support tips reference it).
- Properties > Convert now automatically replaces respective clips in Source and Timeline and adds its clip to the Playlist.
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Fixed
=in Text: Simple filter ignores all text before the sign (broken in v20.02). -
Fixed a crash when using some video filters with Preview Scaling and multiple video tracks:
- Choppy
- Rutt-Etra-Izer
- Swirl
- Text: 3D
- Text: HTML
- Fixed Offset X and Y parameters of Rotate and Scale filter with Preview Scaling.
- Fixed video artifacts when using a video for a custom transition and Export > Parallel processing.
- Fixed video artifacts when using the Distort video filter and Export > Parallel processing.
- Fixed video artifacts when using the Rotate and Scale or Size and Position filters, multiple video tracks, and Export > Parallel processing.
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Fixed missing code-signing entitlements for macOS that caused crashes when using the following (broken in v20.02):
- Open Other > Audio/Video Device
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HTML-based video filters:
- Choppy
- Crop: Circle
- Crop: Rectangle
- Rutt-Etra-Izer
- Swirl
- Text: 3D
- Text: HTML
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Fixed floating or docking some panels may crash on some Linux systems:
- Filters
- Keyframes
- Timeline
- Fixed changing the name of a track in Timeline when leaving the field without pressing Enter.
- Fixed File > Export Frame exports uses Preview Scaling instead of project resolution.
- Fixed switching between Cut and Dissolve in transition properties.
- Fixed project not modified when changing transition properties.
- Fixed pressing Enter in Filters search may open a playlist item.
- Fixed a regression in JACK transport control (broken in v19.12).
- Fixed a missing Timeline track Lock button animation when lock prevents something.
- Fixed clips can be moved to locked timeline tracks (broken in v19.12).
- Fixed treating paths with Windows drive letters as relative on macOS and Linux.
- Fixed automatically relinking filters with HTML files (when app location changes or moving projects).
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Fixed Undo followed by Redo after a Lift or Remove on a transition saves the transition as
INVALID. -
Fixed some filters than use external files broken when using network (UNC) paths on Windows:
- LUT (3D)
- Mask: From File
- Text: HTML
- Fixed Filters > Copy & Paste does not keep filter in and out points.
- Fixed opening with a file from the command line on Linux snap or portable.
- Fixed Export can overwrite a source when run from command line.
- Fixed Keyframes previous/next buttons not using the parameter track to which they belong but rather the current track.
- Fixed opening a playlist clip or a new clip breaks filters on Timeline > Master if it is selected.
- Changed Export > Video > Parallel processing to default to OFF but also now it save the state between export jobs and app session.
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Added support for FFmpeg
sample_fmtoption to Export > Other. - Automatically disable parallel processing on add-on bigsh0t (360) video filters.
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Stop adding
title="Anonymous Submission"to MLT XML. - Increased the priority of background jobs a little on macOS and Linux (still less than normal).
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Added
448kto Export > Audio > Bitrate. - Added automatically scroll the Timeline when you double-clock a clip to select-and-seek.
- Updated the mouse wheel behavior in Keyframes to match the changes to Timeline in version 20.02.
- Added an option to place an icon on the Desktop to the Windows installer.
- Add a cursor to the Audio Waveform scope.
- Removed Export > Stream as it is not supportable in its current state.
- Changed shortcuts C and Ctrl+C to work with the clip under the playhead of the current track if no clip is selected. This makes it behave similar to other editing shortcuts.
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Changed the keyboard modifier for skim to Shift+Alt. This prevents Shift (previous modifier) when selecting multiple clips from changing playhead position. NOTE: On macOS, in order to scroll Timeline or Keyframes horizontally with a mouse wheel (not Magic Mouse or track pad), you must also use one of the following:
- Control
- Control+Option
- Control+Command
- Option+Command
- Changed the Matrix parameter of the Dither video filter to be a drop-down combo box without keyframes support.
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Changed Alpha operation > Write On Clear to Overwrite on some video filters to make them more clear:
- Mask: Simple Shape
- Chroma Key: Advanced